Tag: Broccoli

a light dressing with broccoli and almonds – Italian Cuisine

A recipe for not giving up pasta even when we pay attention to the line. Let's condiamola with seasonal ingredients, healthy and light, but tasty

Autumn, want to comfort food: take refuge in a pasta dish is also granted to those who are attentive to the line, just choose the right type and a healthy seasoning, light and low in calories that does not make us renounce to taste.

ZenPasta suggests a recipe with its own penne rigate with organic durum wheat semolina, konjac flour and fiber
vegetable, with 50% less carbohydrates and 40% less calories. How to taste them? Let's take a seasonal vegetable such as broccoli, rich in mineral salts, vitamins, fiber, with antioxidant properties and an ally for lung health. We combine the almonds that help us fight cholesterol and osteoporosis. And with these two ingredients we prepare one cream tasty to dress pasta with.

The recipe of penne rigate with broccoli and almond cream

Ingredients for 2 people

130 g of ZenPasta striped pens
About 180 g of broccoli
1 clove of garlic
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
6 fresh basil leaves
1 tablespoon grated parmesan
20 g of peeled almonds
10-15 g of flaked almonds
Salt to taste.

Method

Clean the broccoli and cut it into small florets. Fill a pot with water and bring to a boil. Add some salt and cook the broccoli for about 10 minutes. If you prefer you can also opt for steam cooking that preserves all the nutritional qualities of broccoli. Drain them as soon as they are cooked. Keep the smaller florets aside and transfer the rest of the broccoli to the mixer with a tablespoon of oil, a clove of garlic, basil, and parmesan. Whisk everything, adding a little cooking water if necessary to obtain a smooth and homogeneous cream.

Meanwhile cook the pasta. You can use the same cooking water as broccoli. In this way the pasta will be even more tasty. Drain it al dente and season it quickly in a pan with the broccoli cream, the florets you have kept aside and the lightly toasted almonds. Serve hot.

Salads with raw broccoli – Italian Cuisine

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.

10 easy recipes with broccoli – Italian Cuisine

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