Possible Clues:

• Vegetable container covered in fruit, knocked over
• Vegetable from Spain, prepared cold and hot
• Seconds: small quantity without a vegetable
• Vitamin K-rich food
• Popeye's preferred vegetable?
• Hurries back with a companion, getting vegetable
• Chaps in to prepare the green
• Small quantity of salt, say, when eating a vegetable
• Eggs Florentine ingredient
• What starts Popeye in breaking chains?