As someone who grew up in India, a country that has a rich vegetarian cuisine, I can't wrap my head around it when people say they don't like vegetables.

Fun fact: Brussels sprouts are COMPLETELY different now compared to a few decades ago. A massive amount of work recently went into cultivating tastier sprouts.

I grew up exclusively on fast food and frozen food, so I never really ate much in vegetables. As a (barely) functioning adult who can cook, I've discovered just how much I love cooking and eating vegetables. The dishes I make are packed with them. So great that I decided not to go back to fast food anymore, and instead focus on cooking delicious vegetable-packed dishes.

For me, zucchini's weakness is also it's feature: like tofu, it has no taste but it takes on the flavour of whatever you cook it with.

Honestly pretty much any vegetable stir fried will make it taste great

People hate eggplants? My grandma and her eggplant curry would like to have a _word._

In Poland, beetroot is often used to make borscht (pol. barszcz), a sour soup. Alternatively, beets are pickled in jars and then served with potatoes and meat or other side dishes.

Zucchini is such a tasty vegetable tbh. I usually slice it and I grill every slice on both sides. Then I sprinkle it with kosher salt and it’s done! Sometimes I servy it with grilled sliced red bell pepper seasoned the same. It’s my favorite side dish. Leftover slices are usually going as a pizza topping next day

Zucchini fritters is the way to go. Kind of like zucchini pancakes. Or Meghan Markle's zucchini pasta sauce. You basically cook it down in broth and garlic for 3-4 hours until it's mush but it tastes so buttery and creamy and luscious

As you get older, you start to appreciate vegetables. You learn to prepare them better and you are more willing to experiment with different flavors. Green beans and garlic is wonderful. You can eat them alone or as a side dish.

The eggplant dish is a japanese dish called Nasu Dengaku. it's a great way to elevate the eggplant (a cheap and often overlooked veggie) into something delicious!

I actually like all of these vegetables! If you want a real challenge, please do bittermelon and okra!

Another thing you can do with a veg you don't like is to try it pickled. Zucchini relish, dilly beans, pickled beets, and sauerkraut are all great.

Tips for zucchini: seasoned simply and grilled is the best presentation I’ve found. I also like battered and pan fried. You can also do “zoodles” which I’m not a fan of but it can work

Zucchini is probably my favourive veg from those in the video and the best way to treat them (my moms way

For the eggplant glaze, you should try adding brown sugar to balance out the flavors

I had no idea someone could possibly hate zucchini. It's so tasty!

I use Zucchini as a sponge for sauces. In Boeuf Bourguignon, in pasta dishes... Zoodles are cool too, but only half-half with pasta. Zucchini in lasagna is a good idea. Or in a Capponata. You can even put some into your pesto. I eat Zucchini a lot whenever I need to add fibre but I don't want it to taste too overpowering

For me, the best way to use zucchini is in a vegetable patty. It's really easy, just grate it, squeeze the water out of it and throw it in a bowl, add one potato and one carrot, which I also grate. Then to the grated vegetables I add a finely chopped onion, salt, pepper, a little oregano, some garlic seasoning, three spoons of flour (but it can't be more) and one large egg. I mix it all well until it forms a strange sticky mass, and then throw the little patties into the pan.

As an italian, there is a really nice way to cook zucchine. Get large zucchine, cut lengthwise so you get long ovals. Put them on a plate and salt on both sides. Wait 2 hours so they soften and lose the bitter taste. Dunk them in flour, then beaten eggs and fry in a pan with shallow oil (a bit more is also nice). Flip them using a fork when they're almost golden brown. Put on a plate with paper towels to absorb the oil. No need to salt as they're salted from before.

Hearing people dislike vegetables is like hearing people dislike ice cream

Amazing video as always! And i love brussel sprouts when they are cooked correctly! Hated them as a kid but now i really love them! Specially the method you showed!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

Just wanted to say thank you. your videos and shorts have genuinely changed my perception on cooking and made me a better cook. Keep up the good work cuz we appreciate it.

I actually really like courgette. I normally cut it into cubes and then stir fry them with a lot of garlic and salt and finish it with whatever spice I want. But i also like to cut it into sort of fillets and grill them

For Zucchini, the best way to cook them is to fry them and make a side sauce. I prefer lemon aioli. Fry them with panko crumbs, then add a pinch of salt when they're fresh out of the oil. Let sit, then dip. So good. I also like adding zucchini to pasta sauce with other veggies.

As a child my mom often made "Speckböhnchen" it is Green Beans wrapped with bacon and Sautéed in a pan with some oil. Was pretty nice

I love every vegetable. The only one I had a hard time with as a kid was baked squash. I use to put applesauce on mine until I was in my 20s. Now I love squash.

You could try Zuchinni Mexican Style. You stir-fry cube-sliced tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, and the zuchinnis, until the zuchinnis are a bit soft.

There is a restaurant near me with Brussels sprouts appetizer that we all fight for, they r crisped up just like that but are also served with some sort of sweet spicy tangy buttery heavenly glaze that just makes them irresistible, and my mom always makes them well too with butter and salt and just baking them, which is pretty basic but like you said it has that flakey outside with a chewy inside and it’s awesome

for zucchini, my grandmother always makes this stuffed zucchini. It is just zucchini, stuffed with rice and some meat, then cooked in a bit pot which basically steams it. Really good!

Brusselsprouts cooked with bacon are to die for! They soak up all that bacon grease flavour so well

You're very gifted and everything looks delicious. Very creative.

I went to rome recently and i dont really like eggplant. But there was a dish with eggplant that i ate there and it was the best thing i ever tasted

Also, most stir-fried veggies tasted great when you eat them hot. Any leftover will be wilted by the time you reheat them the second time, so try to always eat fresh (out of the pan), that way they tasted great.

hey kwoowk! thanks for your videos! really love your presentation of the recipes. ps the baked aubergines was insane! my favourite dish rn

Watching your videos just convinces me to pop into my kitchen and cook something new, something interesting. Love your videos

My family does a beetroot sidedish with pretty much only boiled beetroot and goat cheese all mixed together into the microwave. It tastes really good.

I could never imagine myself eating eggplants, but parmigiana alla melanzana changed my mind. You should try it!

I'm saving this to my recipe playlist. Thank you o7

Try avocado oil or grape seed for a higher smoke point? Even clarified butter. We love potatoes, green beans, onions and diced ham as a dish together. Love your channel and everything looked great!

Pickled beetroot really tastes good. It fits really well with potatoes and some sort of meat and is fairly ease to make yourself

Try frying the courgette (if thats possible idk about cooking) before hand and then crisping it up with cheese and garlic and breadcrumbs in the oven maybe that will turn out better

Hi Kevin, these vegetables that you cite are really delicious, and I like your recipes. Zucchini is a vegetable I always have at home as I use it often in soups and other dishes. Just a note on your recipe, the zucchinis needed to be thinner slices in the crumbs (cut with a peeler) and fried. I often do this recipe and fry them in the oil that comes with semi dried tomatoes. they are really really delicious

Love yr Brussel sprouts & eggplant recipes. Love yr channel and yr sense of humor 😉👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I love all of these vegetables. Some are maybe a bit harder to prepare but really cool in their own way. My favorite ways for each: 5. green beans > I always eat green beans at a greek restaurant. They are literally just green beans in some sort of tomato sauce. I don't know what they do to them but they taste delicious. You can find them easily on the internet so that is a thing. 4. eggplant > my favorite dish with eggplant is called "baingan ka bharta". It's an indian dish. Its an indian curry and is definitely top 3 favorite dishes of all time for me. But i'm a bad cook so i only eat it at restaurants. But if you have a lot of time on your hands and are a good cook then this is the one thing i'd love for someone reading this to take away from this. in fact i just ate it like 2 hours ago. 3. zucchini > to be honest that's a bit of a hard one. I usually just put it in pasta or rice with fried vegetables. I often combine it with beans. I find that zucchini is a bit moist and beans are a bit dry (especially tiger beans). So they kinda compliment each other a bit texture wise imho? But i agree here that they are probably the most uninteresting on the list. 2. beetroots > honestly i eat them extremely rarely, one of the rarest vegetables i eat. I had them in some kind of a bowl once, was pretty nice. 1. brussel sprouts > just bake them together with some other veggies. They are pretty good just as baked veggies with a bit of olive oil and salt. I kinda like the leafy very, very mildly bitter note in between some other baked veggies like potatoes, cauliflower or onions.

As someone with completely different taste than my parents, I feel like you have to try new approaches to things you ate growing up!!

for courgettes fries I reccomend shallow frying with tempora batter

My favorite green bean dish is really simple and one my mom always made me. It’s stir-fried green beans with cumin seeds, some garlic and once done generously sprinkle with salt😊

I love your cooking and your personality bec you are not afraid of sharing your honest opinion with the world ! Respect 👏

Please make Brussel sprouts and cabbage taste good ps since you did Brussel sprouts kale! Ps how can I make okra not slimy

Fajita style zucchini and squash is amazing. Come to Texas and try some! I also like adding zucchini to dishes that have tons of flavor already like marinara pasta or Asian noodles and tofu just for the extra nutrients. The blandness is an advantage there.

I like that you kept the Courgette failure. Failing is a important part of creation and we learn a lot when doing it. I want to to try your receipe. Maybe dehydrare them, using salt, before putting them in the hoven. I think they reliesed their water while heating.

Kwoowk is just the absolutely greatest human semi-alive

You rock man! Any vegetable can be great with the correct ammount of work!😊😊😊❤❤😊❤😊❤

Ive always loved green beans, my grandma used to grow them in her garden and i would pick them and eat them straight from the garden so 😊

10:07 great segue lol. Also, I loved these veggies to begin with but these preparations are definitely now on my list. For zucchini, which is actually a favourite of mine, I suggest my way of thinly sliced, fried in butter and garlic, and adding parmesan at the end- very delicious. I feel like cooking most vegetable with garlic and butter already makes them instantly better though haha.

Zucchini goes really well together with tuna , and in the Korean cuisine they make really simple but delicious zucchini banchan. In Cyprus they make this zucchini and egg stir fry which I love ! Also understanding how to combine different vegetables is crucial ! Not all vegetables go together, they need to match the texture, taste and also as you say you also eat with your eyes.

Finally, the truth about vegetables has been declared. Thank you for your service!

Ginger garlic green beans are my favorite, it's so good. I'm gonna have to try the rest of these out.

I love to grate up zucchini and eggplant (or just finely chop them) and add them into pasta sauces, chili (yeah I know it sounds weird but you don't really notice them in it), soups, stews. I've sauteed them with garlic and added them into omelets/frittatas or quiches, I'll add them with mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, carrots and celery to some potatoes or sweet potatoes and fry it all together like a *hash* to go as a side dish to any meal, but especially for breakfast. great start to the day with some eggs or a tofu scramble.

From my experience in Italian kitchens, we tend to soak the Zucchini in milk, then toss in flour. Creates a perfect thin batter, eggs are really not needed at all for it. I always had a dry seasoning of oregano, thyme, rosemary and sage on my section and tossed together with flaky salt. Really recommend trying this out and giving it another shot!

Great vid, I'm already full of eggplants and eggplant puree (salad). Might try this recipe soon🎉

I don't like Brussel sprouts, but I hear the sauteed ones you can get from Longhorn Steakhouse are pretty good

A good one for courgette/zucchini is to slice it into 1cm thick circles and then on a hot pan char them a little bit (gotta keep an eye on it as they can go from golden to burnt very quick). Chop them up and add some salt and chilli flakes. I usually add this to a tomato pasta dish for a bit more veggies with aubergine which I do the same thing to!

As a Filipino, when I heard eggplant was on this list, I took that personally.

I once had the most incredible middle eastern eggplants of my life at a restaurant. It was soft pillowy buttery thick cubes of eggplant that melted in your mouth. They were sweet and umami and drizzled with a tahini sauce, pomegranate seeds and parsley and were literally magical. Unfortunately the restaurant closed and i have yet to make them myself. One day!

Wow! Never new I would enjoy this dudes long for content 😅. Hats off bro😂❤

4:30 My mom sometimes make zucchini balls and it's someout out of the world really. She makes the zucchini sort of a paste/sauce and fry them in pan with oil.

In our home, we like to pickle zucchini in thinly sliced shreds together with some sugar, herbs and spices. You can add it on basicly anything to brighten up a dish. Jar never lasts longer than a few days.

For green beans, I love to add them into a potato leek soup for some extra crunch in the soup 🤌🏼

For green beans in kerela there is green bean thoran (a dry curry made with coconut and a vegetable of your choice) and its delicious. Search it up

Try making caramelized zucchini - shred it on a box grater or in a good processor and then cook it over medium heat for like 30-45 minutes, till they dry out and go brown. Works great in pasta or with beans (and I know how you like beans).

I'd argue that the main strength of zucchini is exactly the fact that they are bland and an in-between state between cucumbers and aubergines. A) They taste basically like a cucumber, but their consistency allows you to actually cook them. You can't exactly fry a cucumber and expect good results, can you? Well, you can with this beautiful thing. Fry some zucchini circles in a generous amount of butter and garlic, maybe even top them with some grated cheese, and you'll be blown away at their juiciness and clean, unobstructed vegetable flavor B) Their plainness allows for insane versatility. Maybe the fries didn't quite work out, but you can grate them, mix them with some potato and pumpkin, and get wonderful healthy fritters (they absolutely slap with sour cream or some salmon and poached eggs in the morning).

I often make beetroot chips in the oven. The key is lots of seasoning. Make them spicy with chilli powder or chilli flakes and add some yogurt and mint dip! Very nice.

I do my asparagus similar to your green beans, but i do everything in the pan. Just a little water with the seasonings until the water evaporates and i get a little colour on the asparagus. 😋

One of my all time fave veggie dishes combines cucumber and peas. Peel a cuke. Slice lengthwise and scoop out seeds with a spoon. Cut into 1/4” half circles. Add butter to a pan. Sauté cucumber slices till a bit soft and a little brown. Add in 1/2-1 cup of frozen petite peas (I like LeSueur). When heated through, season with salt and pepper, and fresh dill.

I will try beans it's looks yummy thanks for sharing .

You should try cutting zucchinis into thin pieces/chips and add salt and white pepper. My dad cooks this and it tastes amazing

There is a recipe with zucchini we do in Serbia. It tastes really really good. - Take some zucchini, shred it, salt it, wait for it to let all the water out, then press it with hands so that the whatever is left of water leaves too. - Put the shredded zucchini in a bowl, add 2-4 eggs, and some flour (how you feel is right, i usually go with 3 spoons, depends how much zucchini you shred), then mix everything together. - add salt, pepper, mix. then fry in some pork fat. it has to get that golden-brown color eat it with freshly cut tomatoes and dried bacon and some cottage cheese. perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner. also a perfect and light meal for summer.

My mom's go to zuccini recipe is a quick stew type dish where you cook cubed zuccini with tomato sauce, garlic and mint, and you want to really tastebthe garlic and mint, then with a side of yogurt it's THE summer dish, my mom likes it with bread I prefer it over rice to make it more filling

Hello, this is your friendly neighbourhood Italian to redeem these 5 vegetables. Green beans: very very simple, they go together amazingly with spaghetti if you boil them together. Eat them with a garlicky and slightly spicy tomato sauce, or boiled diced potatoes and pesto, you won't regret it. But if we want to be in KWOOWKland, just blanch them and shallow fry them with garlic and crumbled dry bread. Aubergine/eggplant: parmigiana di melanzane. Nuff said. Zucchini/courgette: you don't like the texture? Make a risotto or a frittata (Italian style thicc omelette that can contain anything from vegetables to pancetta and even your pasta leftovers, it's really its own culinary universe) Beetroot: ok that's tough because not many people here eat them and goat cheese is indeed the best pairing possible, but you can make beetroot gnocchi. Yeah, it's a thing. For more ideas, see zucchini above or Slavic cuisines. Brussel sprouts: again, KWOOWK is spot on. Simple and chewy. They taste really good when stir fried with butter and a splash of beer, or you can go nuts and cook them with a diced apple and a nice curry powder, possibly a mustard-forward one (not very traditional but trust me it works).

zucchini goes really well with savory tomato sauce when the zucchini is soft, sliced to thin pieces as for beetroot my mom always makes this beetroot carpaccio (just raw super thin slices) with olive oil and blue cheese sprinkled on top and it tastes amazing, and feels fancy too lol

for zucchini, i recommend trying some greek recipes like κολοκυθοκεφτέδες or you can tried them fried (just make a batter this time, like you would in tempura)

I grew up with eating fried zucchinis and its still one of my favorite vegetable meals. First things first you have to slice your zucchinis thin. Then cover them with just flour and fry them until you see nice brown crisp. I think you can call them chips at this point but still its easy and worth trying

Zucchini is one of my favorite, one of the best way to cut them in julienne strips, cook them is in a pan with olive oil, minced garlic, salt, just a tiny bit of paprika and curcuma, but not too much so they can stay a little bit crunchy. Or, another way, you cut them in little cubes, put them in a pan with oil, onions, salt and pepper, cook for a while, then add eggs and make them like scrumble eggs, but with zucchini. The eggs will be like a collant for the zucchini that will gain more flavour! In this kind of recipie, I also like do add a little bit of pieces of cheese (mozzarella or emmental cheese).

Great video! (Even though I already like all these vegetables). Can you also make one with the most hated fruits maybe?

The green beans recipe you did reminded me the first time I liked green beans

For zucchini, I've found that the best way to make it is to basically treat it like onion rings, but this only works with like the really BIG ones from the garden, can't really find it in a regular grocery store. They have like this mushy seed stuff in the middle that you have to cut out, so that's why they're rings, but you have to salt them generously (and leave for a few minutes so all the water comes out), then coat it in flour, then egg (seasoned to hell!! Seriously, use a ton of spices), then breadcrumbs and fry on a pan. It tastes SO good and is a staple in our home!

For the zucchini- what I do is I cut a couple small zucchinis into quarters long ways, I use olive oil salt pepper and garlic on top and put it in the oven at 425 until it seems right, then I put either some sort of marinara/ tomato pasta sauce on top or occasionally vodka sauce, parmesan on top is a bonus!

The way you made zucchini fries is exactly what I do with eggplant. Super yummy!!

I really had no choice but to love veggies; my mom was one of those no sugar allowed, all-organic, grows her own micro-greens (still!!) massively crunchy hippie-types, so when I was a kid I got handed a bowl with cucumber slices or a cut up green pepper or "cauliflower popcorn!" 😂 - which ofc was just a bowl of tiny cauliflower florets. I didn’t really know better to be mad abt it then & I'm SO grateful now! Also, in summer, when everyone & their granny is trying to foist their "oh sh!t I grew way too many zucchinis" harvest off on you (maybe is a Midwest thing lol) I'll just slice them med-thicc & almost poach them in a little butter & milk (+ salt & pepper, ofc). I cook 'em till they're *just* soft, so they're not total mush. (Incidentally, my HUNGARIAN gran taught me that one.😁) That said, so sorry to disappoint but not even your considerable skillz & charm can convince me eggplant is anything but VILE. That & okra. They can both get bent. 🤢😂 I'll definitely be trying yr green beans dealie tho, those looked awesome.👍🏼

Such a fun video!

In my family we cook zucchini by cutting them into thin slices and then we pan fry them with some oil. When they're mostly cooked we add garlic and then soy cause and brown sugar and let the sauce reduce and thicken a bit due to the sugar. It's delicious !

As a Courgette (Zucchini) lover, i think a cheap and extremely easy dish you could try is Courgette Pasta seasoned with garlic. I can assure you that is super good (especially if you like garlic). For the recipe you just need pasta (whatever you choose, but i can assure you with spaghetti it's delicious), courgette, garlic, olive oil, seasoning (i usually put white pepper, salt, oregano, and some more herbs), lemon (use and abuse), onions and if you have FANCY choices, some jalapenos or piri-piri go well too. This was a dish I love since I was a kid and is a part of my childhood. :) For the Beetroot i think you could try making bread or rice with the water from the Beetroot when cooked. It surely is good too.

Best use of beetroot I know is making a hole in it, filling it with sugar and waiting for the juice to come out. We always make that for sickness here (though onion syrup is better, but it can't be drunk that often). Also Barszcz! A great soup

The zucchini in Arab stores (light green in color), you will like those. I once sautéed chopped onion and garlic in oil & added shredded light green zucchini and let it cook on low flame w/ a little turmeric(pinch) salt and pepper & it was so good

You should try zucchini pancakes. It's kinda like hashbrown and tastes sooo good. I make the batter with zucchini (satled and water squeezed), egg, yogurt and wheat-rye flour(ratio 1:1), a little dried or fresh garlic, salt. Fry on the pan on the both sides and it's ready) Serve with sour cream or sauce of your taste. Rye flour is a must! It has a strong flavor so you will need to add the same amount of wheat flour to balance it.

Brussles sprouts, prepared the way you make them, are my new favorite food

Try to cover the zuccini in flour first and then the egg and the crumbles, and fry it in oil.🌟 Trust me it is sooo good!!💋 And it's even better if you sprinkle some pepper on it!😻

PLEASE TRY PICKLED BEET ROOT IS SO AMAZING U REALLY HAVE TO TRY IT