Totally random vegetable question

dorianaldyn

I'm asking this here because so many of you are admittedly better than me about eating your vegetables. I'm getting better, but I'm still a work in progress. I'm just looking for ideas of BLUE or PURPLE vegetables that would be suitable to include on fresh veggie kabobs for my daughter's rainbow themed birthday party coming up. The fruit kabobs are easy, but the other mom and I that are planning this party - well we're stumped when it comes to the blue and the purple end of our veggie rainbow. I've seen specialty purple carrots, but those can be hard to find. Any ideas? Something people will actually want to eat? We're trying to include some healthy options here for the kids and parents, we're just stumped. Our veggie rainbow kabobs may just end at green.

justlistening

Cute idea for a party.
I've had purple potatoes and they are good. For yellow -- banana squash; I think they might be called crooked necked squash too, similar to zuccini.

sublimechik28

purple onion, eggplant... umm grill some blueberries why not lol

Firefox7275

Most blue/ purple are fruit or are specially bred veggies as you identify. Aubergine (eggplant) is your best bet.

bcattoes

Eggplant should work on a kabob. Turnips or beets would too if you parboil them first, as they'd probably take longer to cook than the other vegetables.

deannakittygirl

they have purple cauliflower in my market...also different lettuces and cabbage are purple. no idea of a blue veggie though.

MinnieInMaine

All I can think of that hasn't been mentioned is red/purple cabbage but that probably wouldn't work on a kabob...

Nevermind, that was a pretty much useless post.

Google search brought up the possibility of purple peppers too but I don't recall ever seeing them at my grocery store. Maybe if you went to an ethnic market or whole foods market with more variety?

alaskaang

Purple Potatoes - You might need to bake them partially first, they are fairly dense and take longer than most other veggies to cook.

Purple Onions aka Red Onions - Probably easier to find, and if you haven't had them, they are much sweeter when cooked than other onions.

Eggplant

Beets

Purple Cauliflower - Tastes the same as the white

pksd

How about purple yam. You can find it at most asian supermarkets. Tastes really good too...

Weezoh

I think some varieties of Kohlrabi can be purple or blue. If you can find it

dorianaldyn

Thanks folks, I appreciate the ideas!

lisitabonita

Whole foods and sometimes veggie markets have purplish bell peppers.

melsmith612

I'll also say purple potatoes. Might be hard to find in a regular grocery store. I usually buy them at an Asian market. And definitely parboil them so you don't end up with undercooked potatoes and/or overcooked veggies.

mell6355

I wonder what would happen if you put food coloring in the water and steamed cauliflower?.?.? Or what if you put a bowl of colored water and put the stalk of the cauliflower in it? I wonder if it would soak the dye up or not?.?.? I think I might try this just to see what happens....Science!

rob1976

A great man once said "There is no BLUE food!!!!"

wait_loss

If we look at the History of food. Blue foods were considered poison. So while we can find many naturally occurring purple foods there are no nadda naturally occuring blue foods in nature. even blue berries are purple. So I might suggest food dye.

rob1976

You might be able to find blue skewers and just leave a gap where the non-existent blue food would go....