Flavour Diary: Besan Wali Broccoli | Broccoli Fry | Broccoli Recipe

Broccoli is not so popular in Indian cuisine but by looking at the benefits, i started to include broccoli in on daily cooking.Broccoli does not taste great but it healthy and has lot of health benifits. Broccoli helps in improving digestion and acts as a natural detoxification. Broccoli is high in vitamin K, which improves bone health by improving calcium absorption.Broccoli has many cancer fighting elements in it.
Today's recipe is basic version of broccoli which i use it as a side dish along with plain boiled rice and dal/rasam. Its a very simple dish to make its just boiling or steaming the broccoli and give tadka to it with besan. This is one easy way to have it...even if you don't like have it, because having it has many benefits to it.
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Level: Easy

Total time: 30 min

Ingredients

Broccoli: 1 head

Besan/Gram Flour: 1/3 cup
Onion: 1 medium
Turmeric Powder: 1/4 teaspoon

Chilli powder: 1/2 teaspoon or to taste

Salt to taste

Tadka:

Oil: 2 tablespoon

Cumin seeds/jeera: 1 teaspoon
Asafetida/Hing: 1/4 teaspoon
Curry leaves

Directions

Wash and cut the florets of broccoli in bite size pieces.
Bring 2 cups of water to boil and add salt and broccoli and boil for 5 mins until broccoli is 75% cooked(Or steam the broccoli florets). Drain the water and run cold water on it.

Now in a pan add oil, once hot add cumin seeds,asafetida,curry leaves and add finely chopped onions. Once onions is translucent add turmeric powder and broccoli to it. Stir fry for 1 min on high flame and then add Besan/Gram flour, chilli powder. Mix well and close the lid and on medium flame let it cook for 5- 8 mins until the raw smell of the gram flour is gone completely.