Proper nutrition is the key to good health and longevity. True, not all adults and children love, for example, broccoli, which is completely in vain. It contains the largest amount of vitamins and minerals that our body needs. In addition, you can cook delicious dishes from cabbage inflorescences, for example, broccoli in the oven with mushrooms, meat and even fish.

Oven baked broccoli with cheese

Compared to its "relatives", broccoli is the least known. Many housewives do not consider green inflorescences for cooking because of the lack of bright taste and the presence of an unpleasant odor. But there are many recipes thanks to which you can love this fruit once and for all. For example, it is incredibly tasty to bake broccoli in an oven with cheese in a gentle creamy sauce.

Ingredients for a pound of cabbage:

  • butter - two tablespoons;
  • flour - half as much;
  • milk - a glass;
  • cheese (brackish) - 120 g;
  • two spoons of Dijon mustard.

 

Baked broccoli is prepared like this:

  1. The first step is to treat the broccoli inflorescences with boiling water for three minutes to soften them.
  2. Melt the butter in a frying pan and pass the flour on it. Then add milk, stir and thicken as the sauce, add chopped cheese and mustard.
  3. We oil the baking dish. We spread it on the bottom of the inflorescence, pour them with sauce, sprinkle cheese on top and send it to the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Casserole recipe

If you can not imagine your dinner without meat dishes, but at the same time choose a healthy diet, then you should not deny yourself one or the other. We offer a recipe for a healthy and satisfying broccoli and minced meat casserole.

Ingredients per pound of any stuffing:

  • broccoli - 400 g;
  • large egg;
  • hard cheese, not fresh - 130 g;
  • garlic - two cloves;
  • fat sour cream - 220 ml;
  • salt, spices.

 

Preparing a broccoli casserole with minced meat like this:

  1. We divide the cabbage into inflorescences, fill them with water and cook until tender.
  2. We mix pork, chicken or any other minced meat with an egg, chopped garlic and spices.
  3. Grind the cheese on the side of the grater with large holes, and then combine it with sour cream and seasonings.
  4. We oil the form, spread the cabbage inflorescences on it, distribute the layer of minced meat on top, fill everything with sauce and cook in the oven for 35 - 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.

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Cooking with Chicken

Broccoli chicken is a low-calorie and healthy food. From them you can cook a variety of dishes in the oven or slow cooker. We offer you an interesting recipe for a delicious Italian dish.

Ingredients:

  • 600 g of chicken;
  • 350 g broccoli;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • one tomato;
  • 120 g of cheese;
  • Italian seasoning, salt.

 

Cooking method:

  1. Chicken cut into squares and fry in butter.
  2. We steam the broccoli inflorescences and cook together with the meat.
  3. We chop the garlic, put it in the pan and fry for another 5 minutes.
  4. We take one large tomato, finely chop it and simmer it together with meat and vegetables for another couple of minutes.
  5. Put the slightly fried ingredients into the mold, sprinkle them with salt, Italian seasoning and cheese chips.
  6. Bake for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Omelet with broccoli in the oven

For more than a millennium, eggs have been used in cooking, but they began to cook omelettes only in the Middle Ages. Today, it is the most common dish that is served for breakfast, while there are different recipes for its preparation using other ingredients. And so that the beginning of the day would not be spoiled by a tasteless breakfast, we will tell you how to cook a tasty and healthy dish of broccoli with cheese and egg.

So that broccoli does not spoil the structure of the omelet, before boiling the cabbage needs to be disassembled into small inflorescences. It is also important to dry the vegetable so that not a single drop from it gets into the pan.

Ingredients:

  • five eggs;
  • milk - half a glass;
  • broccoli - 120 g;
  • cheese - 70 g;
  • salt, dried herbs.

 

Cooking method:

  1. We sort the broccoli into inflorescences, put in a saucepan, salt a little and pour water. Boil the cabbage on low heat for five minutes. Then we drain the liquid, and cool the inflorescences.
  2. Drive eggs into a deep bowl, pour milk, pour salt and dried herbs of your choice. Beat the mass well until a single consistency.
  3. In a frying pan, heat the butter, pour the milk and egg mixture, spread the inflorescences, sprinkle with grated cheese, cover with a lid and simmer for 10 - 15 minutes.

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How to bake with fish

To cook an extraordinary dish, you do not need to look for expensive exotic products. It is enough to take as a basis, for example, fish and add some vegetables and seasonings to it. That's all - a delicious and fragrant dinner on your table. We offer to cook baked broccoli with fish, which are ideally suited to each other in taste and healthy qualities.

Ingredients:

  • white fish (fillet) - 700 g;
  • broccoli - 400 g;
  • garlic - three cloves;
  • leek;
  • olive oil, a mixture of peppers.

 

Cooking method:

  1. At the bottom of the baking dish we make a “pillow” from the leek slices. Lightly pour it with olive oil and sprinkle with seasonings.
  2. We cut the fish fillet into slices, salt and pepper.
  3. We chop the garlic with thin plates, sort the broccoli into inflorescences and scald it with boiling water.
  4. We combine cabbage with garlic, seasonings and butter. No need to regret the oil, otherwise the vegetables will become dry during baking.
  5. We put fish slices mixed with garlic and cabbage on an onion substrate. Cover the form with foil and put in the oven for 45 minutes at a temperature of 200ºС.

With mushrooms

Mushroom broccoli is a simple but sophisticated way to cook a healthy dish. This recipe is especially suitable for those who are afraid to gain excess weight, and for those who adhere to strict fasting.So that the dish does not seem boring, we diversify it with aromatic seasonings and honey.

Ingredients:

  • head of broccoli;
  • five large champignons;
  • bulb;
  • three tablespoons of olive oil;
  • two tablespoons of soy sauce;
  • a pinch of ginger;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • a spoon of honey;
  • a spoon of flour;
  • salt, sesame seeds.

Cooking method:

  1. We sort the broccoli into inflorescences, chop the onion and garlic into cubes, and cut the mushrooms into thin slices.
  2. Pour a spoonful of olive oil and soy sauce into a deep bowl, add ginger, honey, flour and pour another glass of water. Beat everything well with a whisk and set aside.
  3. In a very hot oil, fry mushrooms, cabbage and onions. As soon as the ingredients are slightly softer, turn off the heat.
  4. In the form we put mushrooms with vegetables, fill everything with sauce, add a little more garlic and bring the dish to cook in the oven for 20 minutes, temperature - 180 degrees. Sprinkle the finished dish with sesame seeds.

Oven broccoli and cauliflower

Broccoli and cauliflower are those ingredients that can significantly reduce the number of calories in a daily diet.

And do not think that such vegetables have no taste, fresh and not at all attractive. In fact, from them you can cook a delicious and, most importantly, healthy dish in the oven.

Ingredients:

  • head of cauliflower;
  • head of asparagus cabbage;
  • 300 g of cheese;
  • a glass of cream;
  • a spoonful of provencal herbs;
  • salt.

Cooking method:

  1. We select broccoli and cauliflower for inflorescences, wash and boil in salted water for five minutes. We discard the vegetables on a sieve and leave for a while, so that all the water from them is glass.
  2. Lubricate the form with butter, spread the ingredients prepared in the previous step, sprinkle them with Provencal herbs and pour cream (milk can be).
  3. Sprinkle on top with cheese chips and bake in the oven for 25 minutes, temperature - 180 ° C.

In preparation of dishes, in addition to inflorescences, you can also use leaves and a stem of asparagus cabbage, they contain even more vitamins and nutrients.

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