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Brocoli And Cauliflower

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Cut
  3. a tablespoonful of salt

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Strip off the outside leaves, cut the main stalk close, and pare the skin from the large stalks of the branches;
  2. then wash them, and let them steep in a pan of salt and water, with the heads downwards, for an hour.
  3. Put on plenty of water for them to swim in, with a tablespoonful of salt, take off all the scum that rises when it boils, then put them in, and let them boil from fifteen to twenty minutes, flower downwards;
  4. as soon as the stalks are rather tender, they will be done.
  5. When the heads are not nearly all of a size, the larger ones should be put in a short time before the others.
  6. Be sure and take them up the moment the stalk begins to feel soft, or they will be spoiled.
  7. Let them drain in a colander, and serve them up with melted butter in a sauce-tureen.
  8. Cauliflower should be boiled gently;
  9. but brocoli is bettei done in water that boils briskly.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Colander