Vegetable sauce ideas?

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  • remoore23
    remoore23 Posts: 63 Member
    Learn to make a simple cream sauce, though use 1% milk. You can add so many flavorings to it - curry powder, parmesan cheese, lemon and capers, etc.

    Make a sauce with soy sauce, cooking sherry, a little sugar, and oyster sauce, cook it for a minute or so, and pour over veggies (or make a stir fry with the veggies and add it to that).

    Put parmesan cheese (or powdered cheddar cheese like that made by Cabot in VT :smile: ) on the vegetables

    Put a little drizzle of olive oil, walnut oil, sesame oil, etc. on the veggies
  • jaci66
    jaci66 Posts: 139 Member
    I use things like BBQ, Teriyaki, General Tao's sauces in my meals. I get the bottles of them and use them whenever I desire a particular flavor. I get low cal-lower sodium when possible. But, they do wonders for having something different.

    You can also make pestos. There are a lot of different things you can do to make your meals less boring. Sometimes just some butter and lemon juice on things like Brussel sprouts is the best and simplest.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    Maple syrup and mustard, or maple syrup and soy sauce. Cut them with hot water to save cals from oil. I also grabbed a little jar of "rotisserie seasoning" that is delicious on many things.

    There's no oil is maple syrup and soy sauce, and very little in typical prepared mustards. So cutting them with hot water will not "save cals from oil."
  • nickssweetheart
    nickssweetheart Posts: 874 Member
    I read that as "mix with hot water instead of oil", like making a vinaigrette. I could be wrong though.
  • Sunnybrooke99
    Sunnybrooke99 Posts: 369 Member
    Prepared Indian sauces, like tikka masala are really good over vegetables. I usually find them in the organic stuff aisle, if the store doesn’t have an Indian section.

    I also like the Greek yogurt based ranch dressing, ceasar dressing, and buffalo sauce.

    Sometimes I mix plain veggies w some canned seasoned beans, like seasoned butter beans. They are high sodium tho.
  • runningforthetrain
    runningforthetrain Posts: 1,037 Member
    sour cream mixed with vinegar and lime or lemon rind, add a little water to make it drizzly for the vegetables.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,093 Member
    nickssweetheart wrote: »
    I read that as "mix with hot water instead of oil", like making a vinaigrette. I could be wrong though.

    OK, that would make sense. Sorry for misunderstanding, if I did.
  • tb285
    tb285 Posts: 5 Member
    Super basic, but Old Bay seasoning is good on pretty much everything. I also like using a little bit of olive oil with salt/pepper+garlic+chili powder (cayenne pepper if you like spice) on baked vegetables.
  • sksk1026
    sksk1026 Posts: 215 Member
    Balsamic salad dressing. Lemon pepper. Butter. Mrs Dash seasoning.
  • JRSINAZ
    JRSINAZ Posts: 158 Member
    LaVictoria Salsa Brava Hot sauce
  • azironasun
    azironasun Posts: 137 Member
    Garlic salt. A minute or so before the vegetables are ready in the steamer, sprinkle some garlic salt on them and toss. Let them steam for another minute, then enjoy. It's quick, easy, and adds tremendous flavor.
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    freakhazerd24 wrote: »
    For dinner i eat some sort of protein. Then I buy Costco frozen vegetables and cook them. It works really well for me. I used to put some mustard on the vegetables for a different taste but that got old. Then I moved to spaghetti sauce. It's like a pasta dish minus the pasta. Can anyone recommend me a sauce or way to get more flavor into my dinners.

    Why do you need a sauce? Just eat up your veggies.
  • davidylin
    davidylin Posts: 228 Member
    Since you have a Costco membership, I'll suggest adding acidic things like the pickling juice from the jarred artichoke hearts, olives, etc. Perhaps some mushrooms will liven up your meals. Soy sauce for an Asian twist. Chicken stock adds flavor, or if you dice the vegetables then stew them in chicken stock with rice you get a nice soup.

    Speaking of soup, you could use canned soup as various sauces as well.
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