Broccoli Blues - what to do with the stalks?

needmoney

I peel and eat

teedy23

I can buy Brocoli soup in a can so you must be able to make it, the stalks will taste the same just tougher so chop up fine and simmer longer, your going to blend it anyway.

oliveoyl

I use them in broccoli and stilton soup... lovely stuff

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/broccoliandstiltonso_76390.shtml

balmaiden

I made soup last week with two brocolli stumps and very nice it was too! I sweated an onion in a little butter with a bendy stalk off celery, chopped the stumps and added them and simmered in some home made chicken stock, gave it a whizz in the blender and that was it. Yummy.

slowlyfading

Thanks for the replies, I think I'm going to have an attempt at making a soup!

oliveoyl

If you go for the stilton one... both Tesco and Sainsbury do a value stilton that's good enough for soup, and you can freeze whatever you don't use (either the cheese, or if you're making a load of soup, that freezes and re-heats well).

Quasar

Oh I never ever throw away the stalks! I chop them smallish and cook them as an ordinary vegetable, usually mixing them with the rest of the broccoli.

So much perfectly good food is wasted. I once knew a woman who peeled courgetts, so that the most nutritions part of it was discarded. :rolleyes:

slowlyfading

Quasar wrote: »

Oh I never ever throw away the stalks! I chop them smallish and cook them as an ordinary vegetable, usually mixing them with the rest of the broccoli.

So much perfectly good food is wasted. I once knew a woman who peeled courgetts, so that the most nutritions part of it was discarded. :rolleyes:

I know, I couldn't believe that my housemate was going to throw them away - they're pretty big and it seemed like such a waste, especially after I've been reading lots on here. And peeling courgettes? :eek: the skin is the best part!

Penelope_Penguin

I either eat them raw, or chop them and cook with the broccoli.

We have an older thread on this subject; I'll add yours to it to keep all suggetsions together.

Penny. x

Quasar

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I either eat them raw, or chop them and cook with the broccoli.

We have an older thread on this subject; I'll add yours to it to keep all suggetsions together.

Penny. x

I advise caution in eating raw brassica - ie. broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts etc - as raw brassica blocks iodine uptake by the thyroid gland. Cooking destroys this property however.

That said, if you only eat it sparingly, it's not much of a worry.