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Broccoli comes from wild mustard, which flowers in order to reproduce.
In fact, many vegetables come from just that single plant - we’ve cultivated it in so many ways for so many years, we’ve got some very distinct varieties:
I once had someone accuse me of being bourgeoisie for eating Brussels sprouts.
You should’ve been eating cabbage like a good proletariat /s
That’s not why you’re bougie
It’s because of the light-up sneakers, isn’t it?
It’s because of your monocle and top hat.
I’ve found that anyone who uses bourgeoisie unironically can and should be ignored
So what is kohlrabi? Is it good? How do you eat/cook it?
It tastes like broccoli stems. Some are more tender than others (just like with broccoli stems).
I usually slice into little julienned pieces and marinate it in salt and acid for it to wilt into some kind of modified cole slaw.
Sliced and sprinkled with salt is good too for crunchy snax.
in addition to all the stuff people answered you can also cut it in about 1 cm thick slices, bread it and fry it in a pan like a schnitzel, which tastes awesome.
You can eat it cooked or raw, I personally prefer raw as a refreshing sweet snack.
Raw, it’s a little spicy, similar to radishes. Boiled, it’s very sweet. It can take the place of carrots and turnips in soups.
The simplest preparation that’ll give you an idea of how the ingredients tastes on its own: cut into thin slices and boil in water with a bit of salt and msg (I personally like to use chicken stock).
The outer layer is very tough and fibrous, so make sure to get rid of that first. Depending on the quality of the bulb, you might also end up with one that’s fibrous throughout. Those are not pleasant to eat, and if you happen to get one of those, I assure you that it’s not a typical experience.
It’s basically like a milder/sweeter turnip.
Better than Brussels sprouts. Anything is better than that hell.
The sprouts actually taste better if you lightly blacken them, like asparagus. It’s one of the weird veggies where you go a little past maillard.
You eat it with your mouth, someone else will be along to tell you how to cook it
No I don’t. Hence the questions
So then if I eat mustard, I don’t have to eat the rest of that stuff?
Depends, mustard seeds yes. Mustard sauce also yes.
In the words of my lord and savior samonella
(I don’t know if time stamps are copied on YTLITE, I’ll check on my pc and if not edit the link)
I only know this because im a really shit gardener
Your loss becomes our gain or something.
I… don’t know enough about broccoli to figure out if this is a meme or not.
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Does it taste good?
In my opinion, no. It is picked and consumed when the buds are still tight, if the head starts to loosen or the buds begin to open it has a more bitter taste to it.
Related, but kale blooms look similar and I like the florets a lot in pasta (esp. mac & cheese).
Typically when plants flower they become more bitter. There are outliers but the general rule holds. Broccoli is better before it flowers fs
Does it taste better when it blooms?
Grew broccoli for the first time this year. The answer is worse, chewier, stringier.
Some plants make some bitter compounds when they go to seed so I would guess not.
It’s closely related to mustard, and mustard’s distinct flavor is from the seeds. So I’d assume that if you leave it long enough for the blooms to seed, they’d taste similar to mustard. Most plants tend to get bitter after they bloom, because they send all of their nutrients to the flowers. And mustard does tend to be fairly bitter.
Everything is a brassica.
Is it tasty?
What about cauliflower?
Once it blooms it turns bitter. Still edible, but a different flavor
Yes, you can eat the flowers. We combine them with regular broccoli in a saute. They make a pretty addition. The very end of the stems are also edible but anything more than an inch or two from the end can be woody.
I slice the stems into sticks and soak them in salt water for a day or two for a tasty snack. Make sure to cut the outer layer off for max absorbtion.
The broccoli and broccolini in my garden have grown so big it’s hard to keep up. This means I’ll sometimes eat bits that have begun flowering. I haven’t noticed much difference in the taste.
What I get from this: we eat broccoli before it reaches sexual maturation.
So you don’t enjoy eating fully grown broccoli, you enjoy eating prepubescent broccoli children.
I’m also realising that this is true of a lot of veg…
Vegetable veal
Broccoli is named after the family which invented it. The family line so exists with the last name of Broccoli and is quite wealthy.
That’s what the Broccoli family (of James Bond fame) claims, but it’s contested. The James Bond IP is the source of their wealth.
Whoops, should have elaborated that was their source of wealth so people don’t think they got rich from allegedly inventing broccoli (didn’t know it was contested)
Yeah, it’s interesting if you’re into etymology or language in general. Their claim is basically “it’s our last name, therefore our ancestors must have named it after themselves”, but the term and its resultant surname can refer to a bunch of different things and there’s little evidence suggesting their claim is true.
Broccolo is the Italian term for the brassica flower crest and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning sprout in a botanical context. Broccoli as a surname can mean their ancestors were broccoli farmers, military or related as a brocco is the center protrusion of a shield, carpenters as it can refer to a type of nail, or even arborists as it can be the stump left after cutting off a tree limb. Italian is a very old language, the associations get wild and sometimes don’t make a ton of sense.
Broccolo is also a silly term to call someone an idiot.
Family members were in the veggie business in NYC I think. The name comes from Southern Italy somewhere.
I thought it was named after Lieutenant Broccoli of Star Trek fame.
A branch of the Broccoli family made the James Bond movies until they sold the rights for gigabux to Amazon.
For anyone in NE North America, our native Golden Alexander plant can be eaten in a similar way and tastes quite a bit like broccoli. As a bonus, it’s a host plant for black swallowtail butterflies, so it’s a wonderful addition to the garden!
My grandpa always leaves some of the veg he grows to bloom so he can take the seeds to plant in the next year. It’s really interesting to watch them develop!
Green onion bulbs are a delicacy! You can eat the flower, but it’s not as juicy and a little papery.
You can also fry garlic flower bulbs. They’re called garlic scapes. They’re not as pungent as the bulb, but still have that distinct garlic flavor.
Oh god I have not tried that! But can bet I will!
