Brocolli recipes please?

[Scottishnewbie]

I have about 8 heads of brocolli all ready in the next few days. There is only so much steamed brocolli one family can eat!

Anyone got any good ideas or recipes please?

Many thanks

[Two_Sheds]

Stir fried with a chilli type sauce
Broccoli (not cauli) cheese

[Hilary B]

fritters, with a herby batter

[ginger ninger]

Brocolli recipes please

I have about 8 heads of brocolli all ready in the next few days. There is only so much steamed brocolli one family can eat!

Anyone got any good ideas or recipes please?

Many thanks

Try Brocolli & Stilton soup, for 4 people|:-

450g brocolli, 30g butter, 1 onion chopped, 2 small potatos cut into small chunks, 2 cloves garlic chopped, 1.2 liters chicken stock, 200ml full milk, 120g cheese(any blue cheese will do), salt & pepper, 3 tablespoons of double cream (optional)

Trim brocolli, retaining as much of the stem as poss,cut in to small florets, slice stem up. Melt butter in a large pan, put in onion, potatos & garlic, cook for 5 mins, try not to let anything brown too much, then add brocolli & stock, cover & simmer for 10-15 mins, until tender.
When mixture has cooled a little, puree in blender or mash to a pulp, add the milk, all if you want a thin soup, less if you like you soup thick, add crumbled cheese & season carefully (blue cheese can be salty).
Reheat gently without boiling, add cream at the end..... ENJOY
Nice with crusty bread..Yummy

I can't take any credit for this one :- its one of Sarah Raven's from her " GARDEN COOK BOOK"

[annacruachan]

Make a quiche with partially pre-steamed broccoli, leeks or onions and Stilton or other blue cheese. Scrummy! If you don't pre-steam the broccoli it tends to dry and become hard where it protrudes above the surface of the sauce.

[marigold007]

It's good in an omelet with cheddar.

Broccoli, cheese, and rice. Basically, you make cheese sauce, rice, and boiled broccoli separately, drain the broccoli, then mix it all together.

Steamed all together with new potatoes, carrots, and kielbasa. My own invention. Serve with butter.

[Wren]

Freeze some for another day?

[OllieMartin]

Pasta Bake.

Off the top of my head:

Cooked pasta (shells or penne, not spaghetti)
Steamed broccoli and other cooked veg such as peas, sweetcorn, carrots
Cooked diced meat E.g. Chicken
A tin of chicken or mushroom soup

Place in a shallow dish, bake in the oven. Top with cheese towards the end.

That should be sufficiently vague to allow you several meals before you get bored!

[Ken the Chef]

Classical Polonaise

Cook the broccoli but keep it just crunch for best results.
The polonaise is sieved hard egg white and sieved hard yolk, chopped parsley.
Melt a good lump of butter in a small frying pan. Add the white and let it foam before adding the yolk and the chopped parsley. While it is still foaming pour over the broccoli. the flavour from the egg and parsley soaks though to give very delicate flaver.

[Scottishnewbie]

sounds delightful....thanks.....pity broc is now finished...still will keep recipe till next time...many thanks

now if you have something for the 6 million mange touts i seem to have accidentally managed to grow THAT would be really helpful!!!

[kate&rob]

chicken and broccoli bake,
fry chicken with some onion and add to a white sauce, add brocolli and top with mash then cheese and bake in the oven.
lovely!

[Alice]

Smoked fish (or any fish) pie.
Lightly cook the fish and steam the brocolli just a little.
Put the fish and brocolli in a dish and cover with a white or cheese sauce.
Cover with some parsley creamed potatoes if you like and bake in the oven 20 - 30 minutes.

[Hilary B]

sounds delightful....thanks.....pity broc is now finished...still will keep recipe till next time...many thanks

now if you have something for the 6 million mange touts i seem to have accidentally managed to grow THAT would be really helpful!!!

Stir-fry with prawns in garlic-flavoured oil.
If you don't like prawns, finely cut pork works nearly as well.
You could use beef or lamb, but I would suggest chilli oil rather than garlic in that case.
You don't need to buy expensive pre-flavoured oil, just finely chop the flavour-ingredient and fry in the oil until about to burn, then add the prawns or meat, fry until nearly done, add the mange-tout and fry for another minute or 2, serve immediately with rice or noodles.
Make sure all your ingredients are ready (and the rice or noodles cooked) before you start!

[Scottishnewbie]

yum! ta for that