Cooking Vegetables for Color

Most of us are looking for new ways of cooking vegetables. We want our kids to eat them, are planning a special dinner or are just looking for variety in our own meal planning. Try cooking with colorful vegetables to enhance the look and appeal of your meals. The more color a vegetable has the higher they are in many vitamins and nutrients. Try a new veggie this week.

Vegetables for colorful cooking:

• Beans - try the purple variety
• Beets
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Cauliflower - try the purple variety.
• Corn
• Eggplant - black or white varieties are available
• Kohlrabi
• Lettuce
• Onion
• Parsnip
• Peppers - rainbow of colors here
• Potato - red, purple, white
• Pumpkin
• Radish
• Rutabaga
• Squash
• Sweet potato
• Swiss chard - bright lights is a very colorful variety
• Tomato
• Turnip

For more information on specific vegetables please go to my vegetable list. Here you will find easy and useful information for planting, growing and harvesting all these colorful veggies.

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