Are cauliflower and broccoli leaves edible?

[Leeds_lad]

With them being related and looking similar to cabbage's, are the leaves of these 2 plants edible? On cabbages I usually snip off outer leaves and use those before the cabbage is developed, can I do the same with cauliflower/broccoli?

[veggiechicken]

You can eat the leaves, no problem. I'm just about to make cauliflower cheese and I'll cook the leaves as a separate veg.

[Leeds_lad]

Thank you . Pretty much increased my leaf based vegetable meal plans by 4 times as much now!

[Thelma Sanders]

I wouldn't use many leaves while they're still forming heads, as the leaves are feeding the plant.
It's ok to eat them when you harvest though.

[veggiechicken]

Don't forget that you can eat the cauliflower stumps (not the woody bits but the part the "flower" is attached to), and the inner stalks of the broccoli (if you peel the tough outer bit off). In fact you can eat all of your greens if they aren't too woody. Treat them like cut and come again and take a leaf from each plant as they grow.
I'm munching a piece of raw cauli stump as I type!! It would be good sliced thinly into a coleslaw too.

[Pa Snips]

A few days ago I made a nice soup which included broccoli leaves. No probs there, get munching on them.

[arpoet]

One of my late dogs used to go crackers for cauli stalks and the thick bits off the leaves

[Florence Fennel]

I love the leaves probably more than the flowers!

[GreenTricky]

Prefer cauli leaves to the head and my brothers dog goes crazy for the broccoli stump

[peanut]

Both my dogs used to pull up my broccoli and brussel plants and eat the entire thing.....they pretty much treated the garden as their PYO.

I love Brussel leaves and stalks too.

[Nicole887]

I'm glad to read that my dog is not the only dog who is absolutely crazy about cauliflower and broccoli. He, of course, likes other veggies as well, but cauliflower seems to be his favorite. Thank god cauliflowers are actually good for dogs.

[Jay-ell]

I ate the greens of cauliflower, calabrese, turnips, swede amd radish. increased the amount of food harvested and means that I don't have to grow as many cabbages.

[Scoot]

I have some Broccoli currently in my garden from last year. It's an over wintering variety so I'm now currently waiting for the flowers themselves to make an appearance. What I didn't know is that you could eat the leaves as well. I will do that as well once I've harvested the last of the flowers.

[Lumpy]

We eat the lot. Outer leaves for soups, inner leaves raw for salad or sarnies, stumps raw, boiled or better still roasted. The head is my least favourite. We treat brocoli and calabrese exactly the same.
Never tried swede leaves though so thanks for the tip J L

[Jay-ell]

Forgot to say that to encourage my sprouts to swell I cut the tops off some of my plants which provides me with tasty and some giant sprout like balls