To tell you we’ve all been cooking broccoli wrong

[Pbbananabagel]

Roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper for 10-15 mins on high

It’s freaking amazing and I never knew little trees could taste this good!

I like stir fried broccoli but roasted cauliflower.

What’s wrong is consuming brocolli at all.

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow

Yes to roasted cauliflower...I was very sure that people were utterly out of their minds to roast cauliflower. I imagined it would be dry with the texture of foosty polystryrene after being in the oven, but no...it's a totally different thing to its substandard boiled incarnation. Especially if you roast it round a chicken.....utter heaven!

You win the internet today, for the fabulous word, foosty!!!

Tbh I’m easy - I love broccoli all ways. Except nasty and over-boiled...

I also love pan fried in butter, olive oil, garlic, black pepper, and a squeeze of fresh lemon. Serve sprinkled with lightly toasted slivered almonds. Delicious!

I like roasted broccoli too...tastes a bit like the crispy seaweed you get at a Chinese restaurant

I love this thread.all those wonderful dishes with veg,love it😋🥦

I only roast my veg lololol. Light spritz of olive or sesame oil, garlic rubbed through if I fancy, and some Good Bagel seasoning, little bit of crumbled parmesan in the last five mins, yum!

I pan fry broccoli pieces in olive oil and whatever seasoning goes with the meal, until they're a bit browned. Gives them a lovely nutty taste.

Roast whole cauliflower is wonderful. I cover it in a thick baste of tandoori paste mixed with greek yoghurt, which forms a delicious crust.

Show me a vegetable that ISN'T made instantly better by oil, garlic, salt, pepper and roadted???

I'm definitely trying this

I love roasted cauliflower so need to try broccoli too.

@rslsys

Just a heads up. If you want sprouts like your granny used to make for Christmas dinner, they should have been on to boil a fortnight ago .. .

Did you parboil first OP?

I sprinkle copious amounts of garlic
Powder over my cauliflower, I like roasting whole cloves of garlic til soft and mushy, but the cauliflower doesn’t need that long in the oven.

So many vegetables tastes better roasted.

Cauliflower comes to life in the oven whereas boiled cauliflower is the dreariest thing ever.

Boring old green beans turn into beauties in the oven too.

This is a great book for roasted veg ideas

www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Roasting-Tin-Vegetarian-Dinners/dp/1910931896/ref=asc_df_1910931896/?hvlocphy=1006598&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&psc=1&psc=1&hvnetw=g&hvadid=310762441626&hvpone&hvlocint&th=1&hvpos&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&hvtargid=pla-488786546040&hvrand=2905814583618455931

Roast beetroot with balsamic vinegar is also lush.

That book moght need to go on

Yes. With lemon juice, garlic and chilli flakes. I could snack quite happily on that alone.

Agh. Meant to say that book might need to go on my Xmas list RedHot22!

I've never tried it but will do now! I really like salad so if I can pack more veg in to that...

Roasted beetroot with leaves, feta and vinaigrette. Yum.

@CovidPassQuestion

But can you roast them from frozen like this?

It's better if you thaw it first - also gives you the opportunity to cut it into more even-sized pieces.

Whenever I've roasted Broccoli it's always very bitter. No idea where I'm going wrong, it's definitely not burnt either - but bitter?