Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home

By Anna Olson and Michael Olson

Published 2010

  • About

Healthy, healthy, healthy! The sharp bitterness of rapini makes you feel you’re doing your body good, and its distinctive taste offsets the richness of other tastes. For a palate-cleansing vegetable course, delicious all on its own, replace the garlic in this recipe with 2 tsp (10 mL) of finely grated lemon zest.

Ingredients

1 bunch | 1

Method

Trim bottoms of rapini, peel off large leaves, wash and reserve separately from stems. Prepare a bowl of ice water for immersing rapini. Bring a pot of water up to a boil and salt generously. Add rapini stems and blanch, uncovered, for 3 minutes, until tender but still firm. Drain and shock rapini stems in ice water. Drain ice water and chill rapini until ready to heat.

Heat a sauté pan