It feels like the dishes that require the least amount of ingredients are sometimes the trickiest to perfect. Let’s take fresh broccoli, for example: If you steam or boil it for a few minutes, the ...

While roasted broccoli is our go-to way to serve the veggie, steamed broccoli has its merits too. It’s crisp, simple, quick to prepare and, when cooked properly, tastes bright and fresh. But if you’re ...

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Before we get cooking, you’ll need to know how to prepare and cut the broccoli head into florets. When shopping for broccoli at the grocery store, look for broccoli heads sporting firm stalks and ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Broccoli is healthy, but how you cook it affects how well its vitamins and protective compounds ...

Now that summer is slipping into fall, the familiar heads of broccoli will be joined by odd family members with names like broccoli rabe (or raab), broccolini and Chinese kale. They’re all members of ...

I was at a young, impressionable age when President George H.W. Bush made his somewhat tongue-in-cheek declaration to the press that “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a ...

Broccoli has an unprecedented position in today’s diet, found exactly at the point where home cooking and nutritional science ...

Steaming is a cooking method that—surprise—uses hot water vapor to heat the food. A quick refresher from 7th grade science class: When water reaches its boiling point (that is, 212°F), it begins to ...

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