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Broeoli, Boiled

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Salt
  2. half gallon of water

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.

Method

  1. Trim off all leaves that are not required or liked, and place the broeoli in a pan of salted water to kill any insects, &c., that may have taken shelter under i the stalks.
  2. Wash them well, and put them into an uncovered saucepan of boiling water, with a large table-spoonful of salt to every half gallon of water.
  3. Keep them boiling till done, which will be in about ten or fifteen minutes, according i to size.
  4. Drain them directly they arc done, or ■ they will lose colour and become sodden.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander