Does boiling broccoli take away the positive effects?
youll lose some of the micro nutrients in the water, but boiled is far better then no broc at all. If you can steam it or eat it raw or hell ill even bake it at times but thats usually in other dishes. Suppose one could also drink, or preserve the water for soups.
Phill
I think that humans lack the enzymes to properly digest uncooked veggies. This was read on a nutritionists website. Ny nutritionist or something.
what the sam hell did we do before fire then when we needed a side dish for our raw meat 
LOL
Phill
We probably used our appendix to assist in the digestion process :P. Similarly european descendents typically have a higher tolerance to alcohol than our native american brothers.
I like to eat mine raw with heinz 57.
[quote]Arc_1mpuls3 wrote:
I think that humans lack the enzymes to properly digest uncooked veggies. This was read on a nutritionists website. Ny nutritionist or something.[/quote]
As long as you don’t swallow em whole and chew em decently there will be no problem “properly”, what ever that means, digesting the digestible part of vegetables. The fibrous undigestible part is good for in it’s fibrous undigestible state.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
As long as you don’t swallow em whole and chew em decently there will be no problem “properly”, what ever that means, digesting the digestible part of vegetables. [/quote]
Maybe by “properly” he means we’re unable to extract vitamins/minerals from raw veggies? I suppose there could be some truth to it. Lycopene in tomatoes being an example.
Steam them sukkas’!..
I get water boiling and then put them in a bamboo steamer and steam them for about 3 minutes. Use to eat them raw but the couple of minutes steaming helps them go down easier, even the next day after refridgeration.
Toss the florets in olive oil with garlic, salt and pepper. Then grill them. Tasty!
Toss in olive oil, salt, pepper and dried thyme and then roast in the oven till tender and lightly browned. Add in some cauliflower too…
As Phill mentioned above, you’ll lose some nutrients. The longer you boil them, the more you’ll lose. You may lose less nutrients by microwaving the broccoli’s for a short time.
I did mean the extraction of nutrients. I heard that cooking your eggwhites gives you more useable protein, while eating raw yolks gives you more. More reason for sunny side up eggs, yum.
I don’t think that eating raw veggies is totally devoid of nutrients, but it makes sense to me that our guts may have become more accustomed to cooked things.
[quote]Arc_1mpuls3 wrote:
I heard that cooking your eggwhites gives you more useable protein, while eating raw yolks gives you more.[/quote]
More…what? I’m curious.
Baking is an interesting idea in Chef’s post above - presumably it alters then nutrient profile less than boiling?
Am I the only one anyone surprised that a thread on broccoli has so much stamina?
I normally don’t like raw broccoli, but have you ever tried broccoli slaw? Great stuff. Most supermarkets have it in the produce department. 12-oz bags of shredded broccoli,cabbage and carrots for a couple bucks; sometimes called Broccoslaw.
broccoli with Alfredo sauce. I eat mine raw. Im prefectlly norrrmalll
Broccoli raw won’t kill you but it isn’t optimum according to this U of I researcher. Raw’ll make you fart anyway…
Toss them in a pan with some oil, season with salt, pepper, and whatever else you feel like and have them sauteed ^^.
Sometimes I also make Pureed Broccoli Soup. This way you can use the water that you cook it in as the base of the soup so you don’t lose any of the nutrients.
It’s super simple and then can be re-heated very easily or stored frozen after pureeing.
Here’s a quick recipe:
Ingredients
1 Tsp olive oil
1 large onion
2 large cloves garlic (chopped)
3 cups fozen or fresh broccoli
Water
4 Tbsp Heavy Cream or fat free creamer (optional)
Kosher Salt
Fresh ground pepper
Dried thyme
Method
- Cut onion into large chunks. Place olive oil into large heavy bottom pot and heat on med. Cook onions in olive oil until soft and translucent (about 7 minutes). Add garlic and cook aprox 1 more minute until you can smell the garlic cooking.
- Cut broccoli into large chunks. Place all the broccoli chunks (even the stems) into the pot with the onions.
- Add the spices and some salt and pepper and stir.
- Fill pot to just cover the ingredients with water. Simmer for aprox 25 minutes or until broccoli is fork tender.
- Puree in blender or with a hand blender until smooth. Add heavy cream just before serving or fat free cream if desired.