Name: Purple-Sprouting Broccoli with Chillies & Anchovies
Yield: Serves 2 or 4 as a Side Dish
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz purple-sprouting broccoli (or regular broccoli, cut into small florets); 2 clove garlic, finely sliced; 1 hottish red chilli (long, thin one or jalapeño), finely sliced; 6 anchovy fillets (those packed in salt are best, but there are some decent ones packed in oil too), roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
2 or 4
as a Side Dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

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Preserved anchovies … the secret Samaritan. A bit like the Beast or the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Ugly, feared and misunderstood. But possessing a true heart of gold.

Definitely an acquired taste when eaten raw, once cooked they somehow melt into the background, providing a savoury backbone to any dish. Fish sauce, made from fermented fish, and central to most Southeast Asian cookery, performs a similar role.

Purple-sprouting broccoli is a seasonal treat and one of the few th