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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

To all the veggie haters:

Broccoli recipe:

  1. Fry broccoli with paprika and small pieces of meat or tofu in a pan until brown.
  2. Add water and seasonings.
  3. Steam to desired hardness.
  4. Serve with rice or couscous.

Cauliflower recipe:

  1. Make brown butter by heating up butter and adding breadcrumbs to soak it up.
  2. Serve it on enough steamed cauliflower to justify the amount of brown butter you are about to eat.
[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

My recent favourite is broccoli roasted until crispy, so good. Before then it was crispy kale but as we all know it’s basically the same plant

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world -4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Hard no. Extremely hard no. This is the kind of crap our parents would make and serve.

For anyone with taste buds, let's be abundantly clear on something: steaming vegetables is perhaps the WORST way to cook them.

Unless you are eating them raw, or using them as an ingredient in a larger dish, almost all vegetables should be roasted/grilled to bring out and caramelize their natural sugars. Steaming them strips away a lot of the nutrients and flavors, leaving you with tasteless mush. Like you're cooking the soul out of them and leaving only a sad memory of what they could have been.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 49 minutes ago

Hard no. Extremely hard no. This is the kind of crap our parents would make and serve.

For anyone with taste buds, let's be abundantly clear on something: steaming vegetables is perhaps the WORST way to cook them.

I'm sorry your parents were terrible cooks. Steamed veggies can be very delicious what done right, and it's not that difficult to do.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

This is just patently false. Steaming vegetables preserves more nutrients than both boiling and grilling. Plus, anything caramelized has Acrylamide in it.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Here is a good one, Mashed cauliflower:

  1. Boil cauliflower
  2. submerge mixer with some milk
  3. enjoy the smoothest mash you have ever tried that comes out to like 40 calories per 100g

Roasted anything (brussel spouts, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, asparagus)

  1. Coat in olive oil, salt, garlic powder
  2. air fry or roast

Enjoy awesome tasting veggies.

Veggie rice(white rice is for sushi goddamnit)

  1. Satuee some onions, garlic
  2. add some cut up bell peppers, tomatoes
  3. cook for a while
  4. add frozen peas and carrots and a choice of frozen vegetables (broccoli or green beans)
  5. add water and bring to a boil
  6. add the rice and simmer it for the prescribed time +1-2 minutes
  7. let it sit for 10 minutes

Enjoy a rice full of veggies and color ( I also use a "curry" mix that's turmeric, koriander and a bunch of other stuff that gives it a nice yellow color, and this way you have your rice and veggies in one and they enhance each other's flavor.