Purple Sprouting Broccoli with Anchovy Sauce

Name: Purple Sprouting Broccoli with Anchovy Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 600 g purple sprouting broccoli; a good slug of extra virgin olive oil; juice of ½ lemon; flaked sea salt and ground black pepper; 450 ml whole milk; 8 salted anchovy fillets in olive oil, drained; 1 sprig of rosemary; 3 fat garlic cloves; 60 ml extra virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Now (Spring & Summer)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2009

About

I eat tonnes of purple sprouting broccoli and rejoice when the first bunches appear near the end of March. Don’t pick off the leaves, as I have occasionally witnessed, as this is odd behaviour.

Ingredients

600 g purple sprouting broccoli
1 teaspoon dried chile flakes
a good slug of e

Side dish
Sauce
Fish course
Pescatarian
March
Gluten-free

Method

To make the sauce, pour the milk into a large saucepan. Peel the garlic and add the whole cloves to the pan along with the rosemary sprig. Bring to the boil - making sure the saucepan is large enough to allow the milk to boil without bubbling over the sides; I find boiled-over milk one of the greatest kitchen inconveniences. Turn down the heat and simmer very gently for around 30-40 minutes, or