jazzing up my greens.....

[AnonymousBird]

I have some gorgeous organic british lamb steaks for dinner tonight. I am positively excited at the prospect!!!

However, my veg to go with, is spring greens... feels like a slightly odd match with delicate lamb, but it's my only option!

So how can I slightly spesh-up the greens to make them worthy of the lamb? I adore simply steamed greens, we eat them all the time, but I feel the need in this instance to do something slightly more with them....

TIA!

Fry a knob of butter, large pinch of cumin and a clove of crushed garlic for one min, add greens - no need to add water as there is sufficient water left on the leaves from washing them - put lid on pan, shake every few mins until al dente and serve.

My fave way of cooking them courtesy of Hugh Fearlessly-Eats-It-All

Do you mean spring cabbage? I would rinse it and shake it, then pop it in a covered pot with a knives of butter and a good shake of pepper. It kind of strand in its own wash water, and sesteams in the butter. Yourdinner sounds yum

Ha. X posts. And it wasn't Hugh who invented that, was my nan. Harrumph

Cook as Katzen says but instead of cumin use ginger, grated fresh would be good but dried powdered will work, or cook with butter and just before serving stir in some whole grain mustard.

Also nice like that but swap the cumin for chilli flakes or half a tsp of lazy chillis.

The ways are endless. I love steamed greens like that, if I'm feeling tired lazy I will often just have a bowl of them like that with a grating of fresh Parmesan on top. The ultimate fast food!

Or try a little creme Fraiche and lots of black pepper mixed through. Am on a fast day and have eaten my soup, the thought of all this making me drool!

Thanks all! Sorry to be slow to come back. The cumin was lovely, and definitely will do chilli flakes another time - sure we have done that before as well.

Glad you enjoyed it - although I would eat cumin with most things given the choice!

Not helpful, but we call him Hugh Fairly Knows-it-all!