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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Broccoli Poriyal/Easy LunchBox recipes

Broccoli is a  very tasty green veggie .Its a cousin of cauliflower and  purple cauliflowers  .Yes Broccoli looks similiar to cauliflower in shape but taste and color is little different .Like cauliflower it has more vitamin C and consumed  mainly during winter season to relieve cold  because it has lots of vitamin C.Half a cup of broccoli has 52 mg of vitamin C this is what the wikipedia says .It has many immune benefits like anti bacterial,anti viral and anti cancer. It can be taken as a soup,simple pepperfry ,in fried rice or you can add to your pasta dishes as well  .I buy these broccolis often and do this poriyal and pepper fry  .

Some other easy fries

Tindora fry/Kovakkai poriyal
RawBanana Fry
RawBanana fry(method 2)



Preparation time:2  min(taking the florets)
Cooking time:15 min
Serves:1-2





Ingredients:

  • 15-20 broccoli heads
  • 1 onion
  • 1 small tomato
  • 1 tsp sambhar powder
  • 1 garlic
  • 1 inch ginger
  • salt as required
  • Oil for tempering
To Temper:
  • 1/2 tsp fennel seeds/sombu

Method:


  • Cut the broccoli in to small pieces with little stem.
  • Clean them and blanch in hot water for a  minute to remove the impurities .
  • Heat tava and add oil to it.
  • Temper the oil  with Fennel seeds.

  • Add ginger garlic and saute for a minute .
  • Add chopped onions and saute them until translucent.
  • Add chopped tomatoes and cook them through.

  • Add sambhar powder and saute it for sometime and add little water to it.
  • Let it boil for a min or two.

  • Add the broccoli and cook in low fire covered for 10 minutes.
  • Serve it with rice of your choice


Note:

  • Don't cook broccoli for much time ,it will turn mushy .
  • While selecting the broccoli look for dark green color .
  • Yellowing of broccoli means its old .
  • Look for some storing tips of broccoli here
  • Similar method you can do for cauliflower also .







4 comments:

  1. Healthy stir fry dear. Nice one for rice.

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  2. Thanks. Sounds delicious. Reason for me to buy broccoli !

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  3. This is my kind of stir fry, i can have it happily with some rice or rotis.

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