Broccoli are the protagonists of many winter recipes. Did you know that you can even eat them raw? Let's find out how to make tasty salads
Green is synonymous with health on the table and i broccoli, with their bright green, they are a real concentrate of beneficial properties. They can be cooked in the steam, in the oven, in a pan. But many do not know the goodness of the broccoli uncooked.
Raw and delicious broccoli
We already know that the cooking method chosen to cook broccoli can reduce the nutritional and organoleptic properties of these vegetables. Cooked broccoli is a classic dish that can be described in thousands of recipes. But if we wanted to avoid altering the nutritional characteristics we can also eat them raw. THE broccoli they are an incredible source of vitamin C, an antioxidant that keeps you in good arteries health. This vitamin represents one shield natural against seasonal influences. We can then make salads with citrus fruits and broccoli to increase the intake of C vitamin in the coldest periods.
Vitamin C in the salad
A plate of fresh broccoli for dinner? uncooked? Why not! Broccoli can be made marinate in the juice from citrus fruits to make them lighter and make salads colored and tasty. Let's discover two colorful and healthy salads made with raw broccoli. For the salad of broccoli, oranges and hazelnuts take half broccoli, two oranges organic, about ten hazelnuts, a little bit of balsamic vinegar, salt, extra virgin olive oil. Proceed by peeling the trunk of the broccoli, discarding the skins and the end of the stem. Wash the oranges, remove the peel and cut them in half. Enter in the kitchen robot the broccoli cut in pieces and oranges. Slice for a few seconds, then pour into a salad bowl and add vinegar, salt, oil and hazelnuts.
Such as crunchy alternative you can make the salad with broccoli, clementines and red onion. To make it cut the broccoli and marinated with the clementine juice For a night. The next day add some marinated broccoli pomegranate grains, carrots, thin red onion. Season with salt and extra virgin olive oil. These fresh autumn salads they will remain crunchy and rich in vitamins. Of course like any self-respecting salad you can add to taste all the other ingredients that you love.
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