Tenderstem broccoli with soy sauce, garlic and peanuts

Name: Tenderstem broccoli with soy sauce, garlic and peanuts
Yield: Serves four as a side
Ingredients: 1 orange, 3 strips of finely shaved skin; 3 cm piece of ginger, peeled and julienned (20 g); 1½ tsp honey; salt; 2 tbsp light soy sauce; 550 g tenderstem broccoli, trimmed and cut in half widthways if the stems are thick; 3 tbsp groundnut oil; 30 g salted roasted peanuts, roughly chopped; 3 garlic cloves, finely sliced

Preparation info

Serves
four
as a side

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ottolenghi Simple

By Yotam Ottolenghi

Published 2018

About

This is also lovely with (an equal quantity of) choy sum, if you prefer, instead of the broccoli. If you use choy sum it’ll only need 1½ minutes’ steaming. This is good as a side to all sorts of things – any roasted bird, for example – or as it is with a bowl of steamed rice.

Ingredients

3 tbsp groundnut oil
3 garlic cloves, finely sliced
3 cm piece o

Side dish
Supper
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the oil in a small saucepan on a medium high heat. Add the garlic, ginger, orange skin and peanuts and fry for 2–3 minutes, stirring frequently, until the garlic and nuts are a light golden-brown. Transfer to a small bowl (along with all of the oil), to stop them cooking, and set aside.
Fill a large saucepan, for which you have a steamer attachment, with just