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How to prepare broccoli and cauliflower – Jamie Oliver’s Home Cooking Skills


00:00:00okay so we’re preparing cauliflower and

00:00:02broccoli a bit cumbersome at first but

00:00:07easy you just click off the outer leaves

00:00:11you can start clicking that one if you

00:00:13want then you see when you sort of get

00:00:24one layer in you can see that the leaves

00:00:27become a bit paler and a bit more

00:00:29delicate well if you want to put those

00:00:32in while you’re cooking in college

00:00:33they’re very tasty to me

00:01:26bring in safe those nice delicately ones

00:01:28with our pile there later we can eat

00:01:31those now I’ll show you how to chop it

00:01:34put that one away

00:01:36so this stalk here where it’s been dug

00:01:38out to the ground that’s gone a bit dry

00:01:39so we’ll get rid of that and then there

00:01:42are two ways you can cut it you can put

00:01:45your knife round and take this stalk out

00:01:48and then slice it thinly and cook it

00:01:51with the cauliflower you break off these

00:01:53into little trees

00:01:54and that goes really sweet when you cook

00:01:56it but I like to do it in two wedges so

00:02:00cut it in half then you see the stem

00:02:03that runs up the cauliflower I cut it

00:02:09into wedges like this and then when you

00:02:13cook it and you serve it everyone gets a

00:02:16bit of a sweet stem and the florets all

00:02:19in one go so each grab a head of

00:02:31broccoli now a lot of people normally

00:02:36don’t eat the stalk but that’s delicious

00:02:38so we’re going to prepare that and then

00:02:42you cut it just where the trees come

00:02:45down and stop meeting the trunk just

00:02:48straight through that’s it so now you’re

00:02:52left with the florets and you can just

00:02:56click those off

00:03:13you want everything to be sort of the

00:03:15same size so it cooks at the same time

00:03:23okay so then you’re left with your stalk

00:03:27so these are the bits here if you look

00:03:30at the bottom of you broccoli can you

00:03:32see that it goes from pale to dark green

00:03:34on the outside

00:03:35well that dark green on the outside

00:03:37that’s what face is all the weather all

00:03:40the time in the field so that’s a bit

00:03:42tougher so we’re going to trim that off

00:03:43so city on its fattest end and then just

00:03:47run your knife down the edge of your

00:03:51broccoli to take that green bit off so

00:04:08find a nice flat edge for it to sit on

00:04:10your board with the tip of your knife on

00:04:13the board keeping your fingers most

00:04:16definitely out of the way you’re gonna

00:04:19we’re gonna put it into long slices when

00:04:23you get halfway through because it rocks

00:04:26a bit just flip it over onto its flat

00:04:28side and that’s it they can all go in a

00:04:37saucepan together and you want it they

00:04:40want to go into boiling boiling water so

00:04:42it’s a big rolling boil and you want

00:04:45them to stay bright green when you eat

00:04:47them they should this should still be a

00:04:48slight bit of crunch in the middle and

00:04:51that’s it broccoli Mountain and prepared

00:04:54cauliflower