Spring Veg Mix

 Ingredients

  • 200g baby carrot with tops, scraped or peeled
  • 200g green beans
  • 200g asparagus , woody bottoms cut off
  • 200g frozen pea or mange tout
  • 200g  broad beans
  • 200g spring or Savoy cabbage , shredded
  • small knob of butter
  • 2 tsp caster sugar

You can vary the ingredients according to the season and what is available.  I have used, leeks, salad onions,  Avoid root crops such as tunips and beetroots.  Also I tend to use pre-prepared carrots and similar rather than preparing from the ground.

 Method  

  1. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil. Add the carrots and cook for 2 mins, then add the green beans and cook for 1 min more. Tip in the asparagus, peas, broad beans and cabbage, and cook for another 3 mins. Test a carrot and green bean to see if they are done, then drain well. Tip back into the pan with the butter, sugar and some seasoning. Toss together and transfer to a serving dish.

 I serve this usualy with Spring Lamb..  Then any leftovers go into the stock pot together with the lamb bone and anything else I can find.