Save your broccoli from a leathery fate.
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Best Roasted Broccoli Recipe
Is your roasted broccoli turning out dry and leathery? Don’t blame yourself. Blame the geometry of broccoli. It’s hard to heat a tree-like structure evenly. Many other vegetables like sweet potatoes winter squash carrots and potatoes can be cut so that they have a flat surface that evenly touches a baking sheet allowing them to brown nicely all over. Broccoli however not so much. Even if you cut it crosswise to flatten the florets and stems on one side the other side is a complex mix of air spaces tender buds and thick stems.
Botanically speaking broccoli is an immature flower structure of green flower bud clusters attached to a thick stalk. It’s not easy to distribute heat evenly enough to soften the stalk to just the right degree without over-burning the flower clusters making them crumbly and bitter. There are several things you can do to save your broccoli from this leathery fate but the most counterintuitive trick I’ve found is to ignore all those rules about only using dry heat when roasting and instead give your broccoli a little moisture at the end of the cooking time. Read on to understand why this works.
Serious Mealtimes / Vicky Wasik
