Broccoli is a hearty, healthy and nutritious variety of cabbage. It contains a lot of minerals and vitamins, it removes salt, excess fluid and harmful substances from the human body. It can be prepared in several ways: boil it, steam it, stew it, or serve it raw.
Broccoli is sold in any supermarket, but it is more often bought for making baby puree. But this type of cabbage is an excellent side dish for meat dishes, it goes well with cereals. Broccoli is added to sauces, pies, soups, salads and omelets. Before cooking it must be washed under running cold water.
This is the easiest way to cook a vegetable. You only need to buy broccoli and sour cream. Pour some water into the pan (about 50 g), add the inflorescences, simmer for 15 minutes, then sour cream and simmer for another 5 minutes. Also, the taste of the dish can be supplemented with salt and spices.
One of the quickest ways to garnish broccoli with other vegetables. The only feature is to correctly calculate the cooking time so that the vegetables are crispy, that is, "by the tooth". Cauliflower and Brussels sprouts can be cooked with broccoli, while green beans are best cooked in a separate saucepan, they have a different cooking time.
For "Aldente" broccoli and other varieties of cabbage are boiled for 5 minutes, then they need to be placed in cold water and covered with ice cubes on top. By the way, it is not necessary to pour out the vegetable broth, you can cook pasta in it. They will acquire an unusual taste and pleasant color.
Baked broccoli will preserve all vitamins, and the dish will turn out delicious and tender if you use the oven. This vegetable is baked with cream and hard cheese. You will also need a little flour, butter and ground pepper. For 300 g of a vegetable, 100 g of cheese and 400 ml of cream are needed.
First, boil the inflorescences and put them in a baking sheet. Melt the butter in a frying pan, add a little flour and fry for 2 minutes. Then pour in the cream and wait for it to boil. We put the shabby cheese and wait for it to melt. Pour this sauce over broccoli and put the baking sheet in the oven for 25 minutes. This dish is baked at 180 ° C.
