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Humor aside: oven-roasted or pan-seared broccoli with garlic, salt, and butter tastes amazing! And depending on how much salt and butter you add, is probably wa
by EForEndeavour 6y ago
Humor aside: oven-roasted or pan-seared broccoli with garlic, salt, and butter tastes amazing! And depending on how much salt and butter you add, is probably way safer to eat than black liquorice.
- Wistar 6y agoWell, what about black licorice with salt and butter?
- parksy 6y agoAnethole, one of the major flavour components of liquorice, is shared among a range of popular cooking herbs and spices. Milder-tasting fennel goes great with loads of cooking, it's quite common to chop up a fennel root to add to slow-cook roasts / braises, or sprinkle fennel seeds over roasts and mix into dry rubs. Anise has a stronger flavour than fennel, which lends itself to stocks, sauces and curries. Less commonly you'll see liquorice root itself used in cooking, I haven't used it myself but I don't see why it wouldn't work - if balanced out and seasoned properly. edit: Of course, just pan frying a slab of black liquorice with salt and butter would get mixed reactions, personally I'd find it overpowering, like eating straight up peppercorns even though they work well in moderation as a seasoning.
- Wistar 6y agoI find tarragon to be reminiscent of anise as well.
- thehappypm 6y agoLiterally any vegetable is good with salt pepper and butter :)
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoAnother variation, which my family really enjoys is: cut fresh broccoli into small florets; toss with olive oil and (optionally) salt/pepper; roast in oven at high temp until desired softness. I tried butter with my broccoli once, and I found it tasted unpleasantly fatty. (And I'm no stranger to fatty foods.)
- NineStarPoint 6y agoI don’t really buy that it makes that much of a difference. As a child I hated all forms of broccoli, could barely stomach it. Now that I’ve grown older I find even the plain steamed stuff edible. While I certainly like it prepped like you described, it still in the end has the taste of broccoli in it. I have a hard time imagining someone who hates the vegetable caring about how it was prepared.
- nicoburns 6y agoIt probably makes more of a difference if you kind-of liked it to start with. I will happily munch on broccoli and other green veg out of choice, but it can taste a bit plain. If you salt and butter it, it brings out the flavour, which is a good thing if you like the underlying taste.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoA little acid (lemon juice) goes a long way too.
- asiachick 6y agoI never got the broccoli hate. I had no problems with it as a kid. I wonder if it's another genetic thing like cilantro