A quick easy little vegetable side dish and very healthy. Blanched broccoli with cherry tomatoes, garlic, lemon juice,extra virgin olive oil, chili flakes, sun flower seeds, salt & pepper. You could leave the broccoli raw, but I blanched it very quickly just to get the raw taste out. You could add some kind of cheese to this like feta or shaved parmesan (because cheese makes everything better), but I did it without and it was really nice - plus better for the ole waistline.
Ingredients:
1 large head of broccoli
a handful of halved cherry or grape tomatoes
1/2 lemon juiced
extra virgin olive oil as needed
1 clove of garlic (minced)
pinch of chili flakes
1 Tablespoon or so of sunflower seeds
salt and freshly ground black pepper as needed
To make:
Blanch* broccoli very quickly then cut up into bite sized pieces and add to bowl, add tomatoes, garlic, chili flakes, lemon,extra virgin olive oil, sunflower seeds, s & p. Toss well and adjust seasonings to your taste. Enjoy.
*To blanch means to put vegetable etc... in boiling salted water just for a brief period of time, and then putting in iced water to stop the cooking process. In this case I didn't put the broccoli in ice water as I was serving the dish right away.
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