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 .