How to cook frozen broccoli deliciously. Recipes with photos

Broccoli

How to cook frozen broccoli - delicious recipes

Broccoli

Broccoli is a controversial vegetable: despite the fact that it is a treasure trove of vitamins and a storehouse of microelements, most residents of the post-Soviet space do not have warm feelings towards it. The reason for this is banal - many simply do not know the true taste of such a product. But it has long been proven that it depends entirely on compliance with the cooking technology. That’s why it’s important to know how to cook frozen broccoli and what “goodies” you can make from it.

General cooking principles

There are several main principles for preparing delicious dishes with frozen cabbage:

How to cook broccoli in breadcrumbs?

Another delicious snack option. Oddly enough, such cabbage can even be served with beer, especially if you cook it with the addition of spicy ingredients.

Broccoli – 250 g
Eggs – 2 pcs.
Garlic – 4 cloves
Breadcrumbs – 55 g
Semolina – 20 g
Vegetable oil – 150 ml
Salt pepper

With crackers

Wash the broccoli, separate it into florets and cook in salted water for about 5 minutes. Then we place the vegetable in cold water, this way we will preserve the structure of the cabbage and after cooking it in breadcrumbs, it will have a pleasant crunch.
Beat eggs with salt and spices, which you can choose according to your taste.
Peel the garlic, finely chop it with a knife and add it to the egg mixture.
In another container, mix crackers and semolina.
Pour oil into a saucepan and heat it until smoke begins to form above it.
We dip each inflorescence into the egg mixture, and then into the mixture of semolina and crackers. Place in hot oil and fry until a golden crust appears on the vegetable.
Excess fat can be removed using a paper napkin, on which you need to place the breaded cabbage.

Classic recipe for a delicious salad

The recipe below will tell you how to cook frozen broccoli quickly and easily. This is the most popular salad among chefs. It also adds chicken meat and a lot of vegetables. To make the treat especially healthy and low-calorie, mayonnaise should be replaced with natural unsweetened yogurt.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

poultry fillet – 180-200 g;
cheese – 130-150 g;
frozen broccoli – 280-300 g;
garlic – 2 cloves;
mayonnaise/unsweetened yogurt, salt.

In general, any poultry fillet is suitable for this salad. But it's best to take chicken. The cheese can also be used sharply with spices. The amount of garlic is determined by the cook according to taste.

Approximately 60 g of sauce will be enough for the indicated portions of food.

Step-by-step cooking process

Cooking steps:

Poultry fillet is poured with salted water and cooked until fully cooked. It should be cooled in the same liquid. The cooking process will take about half an hour.
When the fillet has cooled down, you will need to separate it with your hands into fibers/strips - not too large. But you can also use a knife.
Directly frozen broccoli should be placed in a container with salted boiling water and cooked for about 4-5 minutes. This time is counted after re-boiling.
After the recommended time has passed, drain the cabbage in a colander and immediately rinse with ice water.
All that remains is to cut the broccoli and send it to the chicken. For example, it can be used in a salad in small inflorescences.
The cheese is processed with a grater with large divisions, and garlic with a fine one. The latter can also be taken in granular form to make your work easier.
All that remains is to mix all the ingredients of the salad. Be sure to salt them to taste. Your favorite spices will also come in handy.

It is more effective to serve treats to the table in individual portioned plates.

How to cook broccoli al dente?

Many gourmets like to eat slightly raw vegetables. These are the vegetables that are prepared in this way. They contain a maximum of nutrients and vitamins.

Broccoli – half kg
Ice
Water
Salt - a pinch
Sugar - a pinch

Al dente

Wash the broccoli and separate it into florets of any size.
Boil salted water.
Place the inflorescences in boiling water and set aside for 5 minutes. Do not overcook the cabbage, otherwise you will end up with a regular cooked vegetable.
After 5 min. Place the inflorescences in very cold water, pour ice on top and leave the broccoli in this state for 5-7 minutes.
The inflorescences turn out crispy, elastic, slightly undercooked.
If you don’t have ice on hand, change the cold water in the container with vegetables twice.

Warm salad

Sometimes a salad can be a complete meal. For example, a light dinner. In this case, it will be important to cook it warm and serve it in the same form.

How to cook frozen broccoli deliciously? There are many recipes, for example, a delicious warm salad.

The cabbage will be complemented by meat, crispy corn and a spicy original sauce.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

chicken/beef – 180-200 g;
broccoli – 150-170 g;
sweet corn grains – 120-140 g;
mustard beans – 1.5-2 tsp;
honey – 1 tsp;
olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
sweet pepper – 1 pc.;
salt and Provençal herbs - ½ tsp each.

You can use several pieces of sweet pepper of different colors for the salad to make the treat brighter and more appetizing.

Step-by-step cooking process

Cooking steps:

The selected meat is washed and blotted with napkins. Afterwards you need to rub it with salt and Provençal herbs. The chicken will infuse in this form for at least a quarter of an hour. The beef will need at least an hour.
Afterwards, the meat can be cut into pieces and fried in a frying pan with any fat until cooked through and has an appetizing golden brown crust. You will need to immediately spread the product on a large plate. There is no need to cool it first.
Sweet pepper gets rid of everything unnecessary. The remaining juicy part is cut into random small pieces. They can be made quite large.
Broccoli should be washed and disassembled into “umbrellas”. Afterwards, boil them in salted water for 4-5 minutes. Cabbage will also be used warm.
Simply drain the excess liquid from the corn. There is also no need to rinse it of syrup.
For dressing you need to mix olive oil, mustard beans and honey. These products are whipped with a fork/whisk until smooth.
All that remains is to place all the prepared products on top of the meat on a plate.

The appetizer is topped with sauce and served to the table. If desired, pepper can be used not fresh, but baked in the oven. Then it will also be added to the dish warm.

How to deliciously cook broccoli with meat, recipe with photos

Almost all vegetables go well with meat, and broccoli is no exception. To prepare this dish, you can use any meat, but we preferred tender veal. If you want a fattier dish, use pork.

Veal pulp – 350 g
Broccoli – half kg
Tomato paste – 4.5 tbsp. l.
Mustard – 1.5 tsp.
Sweet onion – 1.5 pcs.
Carrots – 1.5 pcs.
Garlic – 4 cloves
Cilantro – 1 bunch
Chilli
Salt
Sunflower oil – 30 ml

With meat

Wash the broccoli and separate it into florets. Boil the vegetable for a few minutes, and then lower it into cold water.
Wash the meat and cut into medium pieces.
Peel the onions and carrots, wash them and chop them into large cubes.
We clean the garlic and pass it through a press.
Finely chop the chili pepper. It is not necessary to use it. If you do not want a spicy dish, refrain from adding this ingredient.
Wash and cut the cilantro.
Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the veal in it for 5 minutes.
Add carrots and onions to the meat and cook for a few more minutes.
Add mustard and tomato paste with garlic to the ingredients. At the same stage, salt and pepper the ingredients. Simmer the ingredients for another 10 minutes.
Add the inflorescences to the food, mix the mixture and cook the dish until ready within 15 minutes.
Just before serving, sprinkle the delicacy with cilantro.

Soup

The most tender first course is made from broccoli if you prepare it using a blender, using melted cream cheese and cream. This puree soup will appeal to both children and adults.

Even the spices in it will be superfluous. It is enough to use dry garlic if desired.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

broccoli (frozen) – half a kilo;
carrots and onions – 1 pc.;
processed cream cheese – 80-100 g;
butter fat – 1 tbsp. l.;
heavy cream, salt and crackers.

Step-by-step cooking process

Cooking steps:

Onions and carrots are peeled, washed, and chopped into cubes. Afterwards they are fried in hot fat. You can use either butter or vegetable oil, or a mixture of both.
Broccoli, divided into “umbrellas,” is dropped into boiling water. It will need to be cooked until fully cooked. This process will take about 10-12 minutes. Instead of water, it is even tastier to use broth for soup. Then the dish will turn out with a richer, bright taste.
Roasted vegetables and cream cheese are added to the prepared broccoli in water/broth. After about 5-6 minutes, when the dairy product has completely dissolved, you can puree the treat with an immersion blender. It should have a delicate consistency.

All that remains is to salt the mass and pour heavy cream into it to taste. Afterwards, it is advisable to warm the treat a little more. It will be served in portioned plates with crackers. You can supplement the delicacy with herbs.

In the microwave

Many chefs know how to cook frozen broccoli in a frying pan or in the oven. But it’s no less easy to bring such cabbage to softness in the microwave. Makes an excellent option for a light side dish. The calorie content of the dish is approximately 63 kcal per 100 g.

And his BJU:

BJU	Value in g (per 100 g)
Squirrels	5,6
Fats	0,7
Carbohydrates	12,2

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

broccoli – 270-300 g;
sugar and salt - 1 tsp each;
filtered water – ½ tbsp.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

The cabbage needs to be washed with running ice water, then cut. The easiest way is to divide the vegetable into neat small inflorescences. They will look beautiful as a treat and will definitely bake even in the microwave.
You need to pour a small amount of water into a container that is suitable for processing in a microwave oven. Then put in the broccoli and cover with a special lid.
The vegetable will cook for a couple of minutes at high power. Then you will need to remove the lid and check the readiness of the product.

If the inflorescences are already soft, they can be served immediately. Or add more cooking time. You should try the vegetable hot. Pair it with a delicious variety of sauces. For example, a mixture of mayonnaise, sour cream, garlic and grated pickled cucumber.

In a frying pan

You can cook frozen broccoli in a frying pan in several successful ways. How to do this is suggested below in the article.

Fried

This is one of the simplest recipe options. It is fast, clear and accessible. Apart from cabbage, only oil and spices will be used. It is best to immediately buy individual frozen vegetable inflorescences so that you do not need to separate them before frying.

Ingredients:

broccoli – 750-800 g;
water – 3-4 tbsp. l.;
olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
salt, spices.

A variety of spices are suitable for this recipe. But the easiest way is to use regular colored ground peppers.

Preparation:

Place the oil in a frying pan with a thick bottom and heat it well. The optimal diameter of the dishes is 30 cm.
You can place vegetable “umbrellas” in already hot fat and let them fry without stirring for a couple of minutes.
Afterwards, cook the product for a couple more minutes until lightly golden, stirring constantly.
Salt and selected spices are dissolved in the water stated in the recipe. The liquid is then poured over the cabbage. In this mixture, broccoli will be stewed for a couple of minutes under the lid.
After removing the lid from the pan, all that remains is to simmer the treat until the liquid has completely evaporated. This process usually takes another 3-4 minutes.

Serve ready-made cabbage as a side dish for any meat dishes. It will be perfectly complemented by a variety of hot sauces.

With vegetables and rice

You can make a more complex version of the side dish from broccoli. In this case, cabbage will be combined with rice and vegetables. During fasting and on a diet, such a treat is important to serve as an independent dish.

Ingredients:

rice (round) – 130-140 g;
broccoli and tomatoes – 350-380 g each;
sweet pepper – 180-200 g;
onions and carrots – 80 g each;
vegetable oil, lemon/lime juice, soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.;
garlic – 1 clove;
salt, spices.

Preparation:

Broccoli florets are immediately placed in salted boiling water. When the water starts to boil again, you need to count about 3-4 minutes. As a result, the vegetable should become soft, but not boiled.
Fully prepared cabbage is removed from the water and doused with ice water.
Carrots, onions and peppers are cleaned of all excess. Then you will need to cut them into small pieces. Tomatoes are chopped into slices. Be sure to remove the bases of the stalks during the process.
All that remains is to chop the garlic very finely. Its quantity can be increased to your liking.
In a frying pan, fry onions and garlic in a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil. After a couple of minutes, add the boiled broccoli. If desired, you can pre-cut the inflorescences even smaller.
Together, the products should be fried in a frying pan for 3-4 minutes.
Next you need to add sweet peppers, carrots and tomatoes to the contents in the container on the fire. You can immediately add salt and spices. Fry the food until all the vegetables are soft.
Rice needs to be washed thoroughly. After the specified amount of the ingredient, 300 ml of filtered water is poured. The liquid becomes salty.
Cook the cereal over low heat for approximately 20 minutes.
Before serving, vegetables and rice are mixed and heated for a couple of minutes.

Lastly, the dressing is prepared. For it, combine oil, soy sauce, citrus juice. The resulting homogeneous mixture is poured over each portion of the treat as desired. Fried pork will also go deliciously with this version of the dish.

How to cook frozen broccoli with cauliflower?

You can cook these 2 types of cabbage by adding other vegetables to them or make a vegetable casserole. But this can be considered the simplest and most delicious way to prepare broccoli with cauliflower.

Broccoli cabbage – 300 g
Cauliflower – 200 g
Full fat milk – half a liter
Flour – 3.5 tbsp. l.
Butter – 30 g
Cheese – 170 g
Sunflower oil – 20 ml
Salt

Cabbage mixture

Thaw the broccoli a little by boiling it in salted water for a few minutes. Wash the cauliflower and divide it into inflorescences. We won't boil it.
Place the vegetables in a baking dish and pour in the oil.
Melt the butter in a high-sided frying pan. Gradually add flour to it, constantly stirring the mass so that the flour does not form lumps.
After this, pour the milk into the container, salt the mixture and prepare a sauce from it. The sauce will be ready as soon as the consistency of the liquid becomes thick.
Now three cheese and add it to the sauce, mix.
Pour the resulting mixture over the vegetables and place the pan in a preheated oven.
Literally half an hour and you can taste a delicious dish.

In the oven

The cook will be able to find tips on how to cook frozen broccoli in the oven later in the article. The easiest way is to turn cabbage into a hearty casserole. But you can also cook it with fish and vegetables as a main dish.

Casserole

To make the dish tender, cheese, milk, and cream are used. As a result, the form will be a complete lunch or dinner for the whole family. A casserole can be both a main treat and a healthy side dish.

Ingredients:

frozen broccoli – 370-400 g;
cheese – 120 g;
milk – 120-140 ml;
cream – 3 tbsp. l.;
eggs – 4 pcs.;
mustard – 1 tbsp. l.;
nutmeg – ½ tsp;
flour - 2.5-3 tbsp. l.;
salt, pepper, oil.

Preparation:

Broccoli should be taken immediately divided into inflorescences. It should be immersed in actively bubbling salt water and after boiling again, cook for about 3-3.5 minutes. Immediately after this, the cabbage will be immersed in ice water.
It is advisable to preheat the oven in advance. The optimal temperature is 200 degrees.
A baking dish (oval or rectangular) needs to be oiled. Afterwards, you can pour all the cabbage prepared above into the container.
Next you can start filling. All dairy products specified in the recipe will be mixed for it. The egg mass is also added to them. For the latter, the contents of all raw eggs are mixed. The ingredients must be thoroughly combined until smooth.
You should immediately add nutmeg and all the remaining stated dry ingredients to the base of the filling. Be sure to add mustard. With it, the filling will acquire a spicy, interesting taste.
Flour should be poured into the mixture in miniature portions. After each, the products will be thoroughly mixed so that the filling is homogeneous, liquid and without the slightest lumps.
The broccoli in the container must be covered with the resulting creamy mixture. Some housewives add cheese immediately to the filling. But the dish turns out tastier if the product shavings are distributed on top of all the ingredients in the container. It is recommended to grate the cheese using a grater with the largest divisions.
All that remains is to send the container with the food into a preheated oven. The treat will bake in this form for approximately 17-20 minutes. If necessary, the time can be increased.

The finished treat should be allowed to cool slightly. Afterwards, the casserole can be cut into pieces and placed on plates. As a complement to it, you should choose various spicy sauces.

By the way, regular mayonnaise with garlic will do. In stores you can also find special sauces for vegetable dishes.

With pike perch and vegetables

According to this recipe, pike perch fillet turns out very tender and juicy. Its taste is favorably emphasized not only by vegetables, but also by the sauce. The latter turns out to be honey-soy.

Ingredients:

pike perch fillet – 280-300 g;
broccoli and sweet peppers – 180-200 g each;
leeks and olive oil – 50 g each;
fresh thyme – 7-8 sprigs;
soy sauce and liquid honey – 10-12 ml each;
salt.

Preparation:

All vegetables stated in the recipe are washed. Sweet peppers need to be rid of everything unnecessary. As a result, only clean pulp should remain. It is cut into neat, appetizing strips.
Peeled leeks should be chopped into half rings.
The washed fish fillet is washed and dried on all sides with paper towels. Next, you can rub it with a mixture of salt and pepper.
The baking dish must be covered with high-quality oiled parchment paper. Broccoli will be laid out around the perimeter of the container. You don't need to defrost it first. It is enough to break the pieces into individual inflorescences.
The fish fillet will be located in the center. You can pre-marinate it to your liking. For example, in soy sauce.
Place all the chopped vegetables on top of the pike perch. You also need to add thyme sprigs there. It is allowed to take other aromatic herbs.
Afterwards, the edges of the parchment paper are raised and a neat, tight package is formed. At the same time, it is left open on top to allow steam to escape.
The oven will need to be preheated to medium temperature. Under these conditions, the treat will be baked for about a quarter of an hour.
While the base is preparing, you need to make the original sauce. For this, olive oil, soy sauce, and honey are mixed in a separate bowl. If the latter has already become candied, it is advisable to melt it first. It is convenient to do this in a water bath or in the microwave.
Afterwards, you can pour the sauce over the middle of the treat and leave it in the oven for another couple of minutes.

Next, the dish will be completely ready. It's time to serve it hot or warm. The treat should be placed on plates. Each serving should include both vegetables and fish.

How to cook broccoli in batter?

Broccoli prepared this way makes an excellent snack. The cabbage turns out to be very aromatic and crispy.

Broccoli – 400 g
Beer – 270 ml
Flour – 130 g
Eggs – 2 pcs.
Hard cheese – 55 g
Sunflower oil – 60 ml (180 ml for frying)
Salt pepper

Breaded

Wash the broccoli, separate it into florets and cook in salted water for about 5 minutes.
We use sifted flour, which we combine in a deep plate with the rest of the dry ingredients indicated in the recipe.
First take the beer out of the refrigerator so that it becomes warm. Gradually pour it into the plate with the ingredients and stir the mixture well.
Beat the eggs with a mixer. If you beat the eggs with a fork, separate the yolks from the whites and beat separately, and then mix gently.
Add beaten eggs to the dough.
Three cheeses and also put into batter. At the same stage, pour the oil into the plate and mix the mass.
Heat the oil in a frying pan. The heat should be high when frying broccoli.
Dip the cabbage into the batter and place it in the frying pan. Fry until a golden crust appears on the vegetable.
Next, place the broccoli on a plate and, if necessary, remove excess oil with a paper napkin.
Keep in mind that you need to cook broccoli in batter so that it is completely submerged in oil during frying, otherwise the batter will not cook evenly.

In a slow cooker

Recipes for a slow cooker will also tell you how to cook frozen broccoli. For example, you can bake a vegetable immediately with pasta.

Ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

pasta – 130-150 g;
broccoli – half a kilo;
garlic – 2 cloves;
parmesan – 60-70 g;
salt.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

Broccoli should be placed in the steamer bowl. Approximately 1.5 tbsp is poured into the container. water. The cabbage will cook in the cooking mode for about 10-12 minutes.
The broccoli can then be set aside.
In the pasta mode you need to cook pasta. They should become soft.
After the liquid is drained from the pasta, broccoli, grated Parmesan, and grated garlic are added to it. It is advisable to add a couple of tablespoons of any vegetable oil.
In the heating mode, the dish will steep for about 6-7 minutes.
At the very end, all that remains is to add salt to the treat. You can also use black pepper.

The dish is served hot. It is delicious to complement it with various meat treats.

With cheese

It is worth taking two types of cheese at once - hard and processed. It is advisable to also include pine nuts as a treat. The latter can be purchased immediately in purified form.

Ingredients

broccoli – 360-380 g;
processed cheese without additives – 4 pcs.;
cheese – 220-240 g;
pine nuts – 170-180 g;
water – 400 ml;
salt, spices.

Preparation

The cabbage needs to be thawed, washed and placed in a special container for steaming.
Fill the multicooker with water and place a container of vegetables on top. Steamed broccoli will take 7-8 minutes.
At this time, the cheese should be turned into large shavings.
The processed cheese will need to be melted. Then mix with chopped nuts.
Cover the broccoli in the container with cheese sauce and sprinkle with cheese shavings. The dish will take a couple more minutes to cook in this form.

The result is a hearty meal. If you wish, you can also cook it in the same way with pieces of chicken, pork, and beef.

Useful tips and tricks

The following tips will help you prepare a variety of delicious dishes with broccoli:

cabbage itself does not have a very strong taste, but quickly absorbs spices and aromatic herbs (thyme, garlic, and onion go well with it);
broccoli goes equally well with fish, meat, poultry, and seafood;
Before freezing for future dishes, cabbage should be divided into inflorescences; it is advisable to use special bags for its preparation;
ideal spices for broccoli are rosemary, marjoram, nutmeg, sage, oregano.

Today there are more than 50 options for how to cook broccoli. You can even make a beautiful and tasty holiday dinner from frozen cabbage. For example, immediately bake vegetables and meat components together.