stems?

[goth_kittykat]

i bought brocolli at whole foods and i'm wondering can you eat the stems? if so how do you fix them because their extremly bland, even when i dip it in hummus.

Comments

[paradisefraud]

I steam them and stick 'em in my thai curries!

[xrobotx]

Peel them, chop them up, and add them to the rest of the broccoli.

[goth_kittykat]

peeling the stems? how do you do that?o.o i didn't know you needed to peel the parts that didn't have the flowerettes.

[poepoesmomma]

I use a vegetable peeler to scrape off the tough parts, then thin slice them and eat them like chips.

[wyldkyss]

You don't often have to, unless it's chewy/hard on the outside.

You can definitely eat them, raw, boiled, steamed, etc. Anything you can do to a food, you can do to a brocoli :)

[tragickmagick]

I love the stalks. As mentioned above, peel (or slice) off the outer "woody" part first. That part can get chewy. ;)

I slice it about 1/4 inch thick throw them in stir fry or stew.

[amphibology29]

When I was little my mom used to make "broccoli buttons" out of the stems. Slice them up into little rounds and steam them.

[obfuscate]

Are you kidding?! The stalks are the best part!!

[elshastorm]

w3rd. :)

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