How to cook broccoli

  Each housewife periodically wants to diversify the customary menu, supplement it with delicious and bright dishes. Often we pay attention to cabbage, as it is useful and appetizing. There are a lot of cabbage , but now, thinking about buying broccoli, women are often asked, and how to cook such cabbage. Quite often there is a question, whether it is necessary to boil inflorescences together with a leg or it is better separately. Questions in this case always a lot, but now we will try to find out how to properly cook broccoli, so that it remains as useful and tasty.

And the useful properties of this kind of cabbage set - broccoli promotes a more active feeding of the heart with oxygen, is the prevention of cancer of the stomach, mammary glands and prostate, is extremely useful for pregnant women and young children. Doctors recommend eating this healthy vegetable at least 5 servings a week for the prevention of cancer.

How to cook broccoli

Scientists say that the effectiveness of her fight with cancer cells depends on the way broccoli is made. This is due to the fact that the preservation of useful substances in cabbage depends on the time of heat treatment . How to cook broccoli to save all the vitamins?

Before preparing cabbage broccoli, it should be washed thoroughly in running water. Then gently cut it into inflorescences, after which it is soaked in salted water for about ten minutes (if cabbage is from your garden, and not from the store, then soaking can be skipped). In parallel with this, a pot of water is put on the fire, it should be put in inflorescence when the water boils. The main thing is not to digest it so that the broccoli does not lose any useful qualities or taste.

It is also worth taking into account the fact that there are products that enhance the impact of cabbage on the human body. Among these products you can find those that you like, here is a partial list - wasabi, mustard, arugula.

Recipes of dishes from cabbage broccoli

When you learn how to cook broccoli, you can cook a variety of dishes from it. For example, a salad. It will take a pound of broccoli, a pair of medium carrots, pickled cucumber, 50 grams of green onions. Carrots and broccoli should be boiled, after which the first grate on a large grater, and the inflorescence finely chopped. Onion should be finely chopped, and chop the cucumber slices. All this must be mixed and filled with a special sauce, for which you will need two tablespoons of olive oil, lemon juice, sugar, salt, ground pepper and a little vinegar.

Another amazingly delicious way to cook broccoli is to bake it along with cauliflower with cream sauce. To prepare this dish, you will need broccoli (four hundred grams), cauliflower (in the same amount), half a liter of cream, cheese (one hundred and fifty grams), butter (one tablespoonful), flour (a couple of tablespoons), salt and pepper taste. Before cooking broccoli, first divide it into inflorescences, and only then boil in salt water from ten to fifteen minutes. After that, you need to throw it back in the colander to make the glass water. Then cabbage should be put in a baking dish. While cabbage is being cooked, you can cook the sauce. The flour must be fried, adding first butter, and then cream. All this bring to a boil and in the mixture to pour grated cheese. Stir until the cheese melts, then salt and pepper. The resulting sauce pour on the cabbage and put in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. When the cabbage appears golden crust, the dish is ready.

Now you know how to cook broccoli and will be able to diversify the spring menu with delicious and healthy food. Bon Appetit!