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On this week's Why We Cook, Erica celebrates a handful of outcast veggies and shares preparations to curry your favor towards the beet, cauliflower and lima bean. Don't sleep on these nutritious delights!
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The Cast off Vegetable (7:45)
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overall quality of produce improved, beet, okra, lima beans, cauliflower, if you think you don't like it it probably wasn't cooked right, don't miss out on marginalized veggies, vegetables, uncommon preparations, leave your comfort zone, beet greens, Erica's childhood beet experiences, before sugar cane cultivation all sugar in diets came from beets,The Veggies You Think You Hate (11:05)
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roasted beets, earthy texture, the smaller the beet the better, faster cooking, rub down with olive oil and seasoning, place in shallow pan, place in oven at 400 degrees until very soft, cook at least an hour, wear gloves, once peeled quarter add olive oil and salt and serve warm or chilled, beets can be eaten raw, juice your beets and boil down to a syrup for vinaigrette, okra, came to US with slaves from southern Africa, goo inside okra, goo comes out when stewed, cook okra quickly and goo will stay inside, buy short okra, related to hybiscus, stewed okra, high nutritional value, high fiber, the less you cook okra the better, goo is soluble fiber, stabilizes blood sugar, curbs absorbtion rate of sugar, strips cholesterol from body, lima bean, named for Lima Peru, try lima beans fresh for a religious vegetable conversion, simmer or stew or sautee, succotash, embrace the lima bean!, red and white striped beet, trim beet,Consider the Cauliflower (10:02)
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cauliflower, Mark Twain, don't boil cauliflower!, roast cauliflower, roast at 400 degrees until crispy and caramelized, coax along with oil to raise surface temp, sugars don't caramelize under 400 degrees, must add oil to raise temp!, green cauliflower, orange and purple varieties, less pigments in food less nutrition in food, peel stem and eat inside raw, tempura cauliflower leaves, Dr. Atkins, Erica did recipe development for Atkins, boil or roast cauliflower then puree and mash as a sub for potatoes, steam then toss with vinaigrette, sautee in mustard oil, add whole mustard and cumin seeds, add ginger garlic, add blanched cauliflower florets, add diced cooked potatoes, add salt and cilantro, cabbage cousin, coax the sweetness out slowly, be good to your veggies they'll return the favor,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
