Marinated Vegetables

Submitted by ellie_

"Thought this was a great way to use up leftover vegetables. Recipe source: Bon Appetit (November 2003)"

 

• Ready In: 6hrs 5mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 8 cups leftover vegetables (such as carrots, green beans, cauliflower and or or brocolli)
• 2 cups grape tomatoes, halved
• 3⁄4 cup olive oil
• 1⁄4 cup red wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 garlic cloves, pressed
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce

directions

1. Place cooked/leftover vegetables in a large strained and place stainer into a large pot of boiling water for 30 seconds (this removes butter and seaoning that was on vegetables). Rinse with cold water and pat dry. Transfer to a large bowl and toss with tomatoes.
2. Pour remaining ingredients in a jar (olive oil - pepper sauce) and shake well.
3. Pour onto vegetables and toss well.
4. Cover and refrigerate for 6 hours or up to 2 days.
5. Bring vegetables to room temperature before serving and season with salt and pepper if desired.

Reviews

[Darkhunter]

It IS a good way to enjoy all those bits and pieces of leftover vegetables which would otherwise be thrown out after developing "beards"! I served the veggies at room temp over hot white rice. Yummy! Thnx for posting, ellie!

 

[Mandy]

I loved the idea of this but the taste didn't really appeal to me unfortunately. I'm not a big olive oil fan so I couldn't get over the oil in the dressing. I think I would prefer this with a creamy type dressing but it was great to try it & it was very visually appealing. Thanks Ellie.

 

[Debber]

This is SUCH a great way to handle leftover (and/or maybe boring!) veggies. That said, my family did not exactly share my "wonderful" opinion on this recipe! :rofl: They can be such sticks-in-the-mud sometimes---all they want is buttered & salted vegies OR cheesed up ones! Hmmm. I need to work on that. Okay, so I pretty much made this exactly as you've directed, except I added about 1 T. of finely chopped onion. Yummmmy, yum, yum!