613. PURPLE SPROUTING BROCCOLI BRAISED with BACON, GARLIC and CHILI

serves 2


300 grams purple sprouting broccoli
75 grams smoked streaky bacon, sliced into lardons
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
1 dried chili, chopped finely


Blanch broccoli for five minutes in plenty of boiling salted water. While it is cooking fry bacon in olive oil until almost brown. Add garlic and chili, and cook for another 2 minutes. Then add the broccoli and braise with the bacon mixture for another 5 minutes.


courtesy of: Riverford Organic Vegetables Limited, Wash Barn, Buckfastleigh Devon, TQ11 0LD