Raw broccoli is fine and all, but a quick cooking method called blanching takes broccoli from boring to darn right tasty.Here’s How to Blanch Broccoli for adding to salads, veggie bowls, and the prettiest vegetable platter ever.Blanched broccoli is fabulous served with Homemade Ranch Dressing for dipping, or added to Piggly Wiggly Salad (Broccoli Salad with Bacon and Cheese).Toss it up the Seafood Salad, or dress a big bowl of bright green broccoli in Asian Salad Dressing for a fun, healthy side dish.Pin Now To Save!PIN ITMaking blanched broccoli for a huge shindig? You’ll need a bigger pot! Click and slide the number next to “servings” on the recipe card below to adjust the ingredients to match how many you’re feeding—the recipe does the math for you, it’s that easy.What is blanching?It’s a cooking method often used with asparagus, green beens, cauliflower, broccoli, and broccolini, to name a few.

Food is plunged in to boiling water to briefly cook, then plunged into an ice bath to quickly stop the process.It leaves the vegetable, in this case broccoli, perfectly tender-crisp and gorgeously green.What you do with blanched vegetables is up to you.Throw a handful of blanched broccoli into salads, onto pizza, into a quick stir-fry, or eat it as-is with your favorite salad dressing.

You could even sneak it into cheesy pasta or macaroni and cheese.How to cut broccoli:To keep things as mess-free as possible, cutting broccoli is easy when you start from the bott

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