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A couple of months ago, we had some friends over. I made a simple meal of grilled chicken with broccoli sauteed in garlic with lemon. Everyone oohed and aahed about the broccoli and even though it’s one of my favorites, I was really surprised that they hadn’t ever had it prepared this way. I started to think about that and thought I’d share it here because when you really don’t know what to make, this is easier than anything in the world and good enough for company.
Here’s what I do:
4 heads of broccoli
Lots of chopped garlic (6-8 cloves)
1 lemon
Olive Oil
Salt
Clean and trim the broccoli, reserve the stalks for another use, you really just want the florets for this. Steam the broccoli lightly (we like it really crisp, just barely steamed and bright green, you should do it however you like). Drain the broccoli, set aside, carefully wipe the pan with a towel so that there isn’t a lot of excess water and put it back on the burner. Set the burner to Med/High – closer to med, we don’t want the garlic to burn. Pour a couple of glugs of oil into the pan and when it starts to ribbon, add the garlic.
Doesn't that look great?
Let the oil and garlic really simmer and bubble and then add the broccoli back to the pot. Toss really well to coat the broccoli and heat it back up- add more oil if you have to and then pour the broccoli into a serving dish. Make sure you scrape the pot to get every bit of garlic out.
Cut the lemon in half and slice about 4 very thin slices off for garnish. Sqeeze the lemons over the broccoli, being careful not to get seeds into the dish.
Garnish with the lemon slices, sprinkle salt over the dish and serve!
Perfect!
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