Excellent as vegetable side dish for meat and fish, broccoli is also a perfect ingredient to accompany and flavor pasta dishes.
Broccoli: a cure for health!
It is good to know that it is a vegetable that contains very few calories (27 per 100 g) and therefore perfect to be included in low-calorie diets. Broccoli is rich in mineral salts (calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium) e vitamin C, B1 and B2. Also from recent studies we know that they are also excellent remedy for lung diseases, asthma and respiratory problems generally. That's why they even earned the nickname of "rescuers".
How to choose and clean broccoli
First thing to learn: the inflorescences of the best broccoli must be compact, firm, of bright and intense color, without dents or yellow parts. The leaves must be consistent and fragile to the touch, fleshy and break with dry sound. Broccoli, moreover, should be kept in the fridge and they remain for 4 or 5 days in the vegetable compartment and to clean them just remove the leaves and remove the tops from the core. Then, before using them, you have to wash them thoroughly under running water.
Pasta with broccoli, not just orecchiette!
The great classic are the Orecchiette Ai Broccoli, but this vegetable is also perfect for flavoring other pasta-based recipes: tagliolini with broccoli and clams, half-moons of cod with broccoli cream, strascinati with red wine with broccoli and crescenza, half sleeves with broccoli Roman anchovy, penne wholemeal with broccoli Roman, ravioli with broccoli fish, strascinati with broccoli and Roman onions fries, paccheri in miso sauce, broccoli and dried apricots, broccoli in orecchiette with potatoes and chilli, curly lasagnette with broccoli, pasta with broccoli and raisins, garganelli with cream of escarole, broccoli and culatello. And for those who love the first broth, here are a couple of recipes with broccoli: soup with broccoli, soup with chicken and broccoli.
The 15 best pasta recipes with broccoli
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