This is what a cooking video should be: informative, fun, clever, humorous, tested, and result-driven. For me it's a culinary epiphany. Broccoli here I come! Nice work Dan!

I have never empathized more with a video - Dan's hatred of broccoli dust (cauliflower dust too), the absolute abhorrence for (over)steamed broc, and discovering that cutting through stems was the best way to cut it up.

@evenoddprime

Ай бұрын

My family would always ask me why I didn't eat the broccoli when I love roasting it. It took them about a year until I had to tell them I love the stems and now I have to share... 😭😭😭

@dianeexley1709

Ай бұрын

Leave it to Dan!🤜👏

We get an extra lesson on how to hold a peeler. That's pretty helpful imo

@oceanwonders

Ай бұрын

Hear hear!

@bsteven885

Ай бұрын

This is why I Love the "What's Eating Dan?" videos on KZread -- he gives us some extra tips that help us to enjoy more than just the featured item.

The broccoli stalk is actually the best part of raw broccoli IMO, it has a crisp, delicate flavour and is even almost a little sweet.

@adams8763

Ай бұрын

I shop for the broccoli with the largest stalks. You can get great browning with the flat surface and it is definitely the best part roasted.

@user-Aaron-

Ай бұрын

@@adams8763 Same! Mine don't usually last long enough to get cooked though. Pro tip: some grocery stores that sell crowns will give you the broccoli stalks for free if you ask for them since they're just getting tossed into the pig feed bin anyway.

@capers72424

Ай бұрын

LOL! Agree and I’m glad nobody else in my household feels the same way!

@jpp7783

Ай бұрын

I agree. The floret is just green mush.

@JeremyForTheWin

Ай бұрын

dogs love it too (and it's good for them)

As usual, Dan is ATK's sharpest, most likeable host. I would love to see some of your scientific approaches applied to bread dough. Like adding MSG for umami flavor, preferments vs. cold ferments, lower pH producing better results, etc.

Chopping up broccoli at 2:36 didn't make me cringe, because I actually do that for one application. I make a sort of broccoli pesto to have with pasta. I chop the broccoli, cook it until very soft, then mash it with garlic, salt, and pepper in a mortar and pestle. If you start mashing with the stems and the garlic, you get a nice smooth sauce. The crowns can be mashed more coarsely. Mix it with pasta, and it's quite yummy. Since it's going to be mashed anyway, no need to be careful with the chopping.

It's really gratifying to hear someone suggest the same way I've been separating broccoli florets (and teaching my cooks to do it too).

For all kinds of roasted veggies, I microwave in an open container until they're al dente, maybe 2-3 minutes. That head start saves half the oven time and gets them browner.

@mesiroy1234

Ай бұрын

Anything Fried(not deep fried) is tasy

@SkollMX

Ай бұрын

@@mesiroy1234 Anything deep fried is delicious :)

@thischannelisforcommenting5680

Ай бұрын

stream and roast goes hard

@realhousewifeoftransylvania1.0

26 күн бұрын

Microwaves are for lazy people.

I love peeling the stems and eating them raw. So sweet and crisp.

I just watched eight minutes on broccoli…and do not have any regrets. 😂 Well done, Dan. You and the entire team knocked it out of the park.

Oh how I absolutely love this series!

I love ALL your vids Dan and have gone back to be sure I’ve caught them all - DO keep them coming! This one especially great! Thanks!!

Brilliant! Love it Dan! Game changer for me! Many many thanks!

Yes I was shuddering when you cut the broccoli crowns! Love the comparisons to dogs 😂. Keep the videos coming Dan.

All the thoughtful details make this a great video. I have been steamed broccoli only, but will now begin using these tips.

Love you Dan ❤ and all the crazy, funny, nerdy writing. You make me giggle and feel happy. Off to the kitchen I go, inspired!

Dan, you are so right! I do most of what you talked about. I even grate cheese on mine. The sky’s the limit. I also roast my cauliflower. Mmmm snack food never was better! Thanks

I do love me some broccoli but that little peeling the outer skin trick….priceless! Can’t wait for my garden fresh broccoli to be ready! 😋

This video was hilarious and awesome to watch! Love Dan, and love broccoli.

Chef Dan, this was terrific! thanks you and sharing

Thank you Dan! I always learn something new from your wonderful videos. Thanks for your nerdy approach--it resonates with me.

I love What's Eating Dan episodes so much. Since they are packed with information, it would be amazing if you could make a book!

I like roasted broccoli on pizza and it just has that crunchy savory texture. Yum.

@user-Aaron-

Ай бұрын

Same! It's actually one of my favourite toppings.

Dan out here changing lives one vegetable at a time! Awesome work tips (and stems)!

Great! I learned a few good tips I plan to use to make the best roasted broccoli

"That peeling feeling, as they say" - Dan, who says that?. 😂

I toss Broccoli in garlic olive oil, salt/pepper/msg/sugar/citric acid/Nutritional yeast and air fry super hot till bits are charred. Serve with a tangy, lemony, peppery, smokey yogurt dipping sauce. So so so good

@buzzman4860

Ай бұрын

MSG will make a cow turd taste good. No thanks

What is the sunflower seed topping?

@jimchidiac9965

Ай бұрын

Yes! Please elaborate on this topping.

@gregg48

21 күн бұрын

Sunflower seeds, nooch, grated lemon zest, smoked paprika, salt, ground to coarse powder

@lisab.3091

18 күн бұрын

It's behind a paywall, but the ingredients are as follows: 2 tablespoons raw sunflower seeds, toasted 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast ½ teaspoon grated lemon zest ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika ¼ teaspoon kosher salt

Tree salad is probably one of my favorite ways to eat broccoli (and cauliflower)

I can't wait to try this. I love broccoli. Other than adding it to other dishes, I mostly steam it. Looking forward to more ideas for other veggies from you!

I had no idea people didn't eat the broccoli stalks! We grew up eating broccoli-all parts-and loving it (my mum must have trained us well?). I love the idea of dusting with different toppings (other than garlic or squeezed lemon juice). Thank you!

Nice! Just got home from the market with some really nice looking broccoli. Going to roast this way as opposed to my usual method. Thanks!

Love broccoli. Great ideas for cutting & cooking it.

Thank you, Dan I love roasted broccoli, and the suggestion to peel the stem and pull apart the florets is gonna bring this favorite to the level for me. Flatness for surface area. It's so obvious

Bravo, this was massively informative & fun to watch 🥦🥦 🥦 🥦

I love roasted broccoli so I make it often. I’ll have to try adding sugar next time. Thanks for the tip!

Learning how to roast broccoli like this changed my vegetable-eating life!

A series on cooking seafood - shrimp, scallops, salmon, whitefish, mollusks etc. Easily one of the most intimidating areas for the average cook. Oh - plus a bacalao recipe

Dan and Lam are my absolute favorite food nerds!

I'm Gen X and my grandparents were Irish. Back in their day veggies were boiled and not steamed 😱😂

6:22 I've actually been doing this lately! Usually I add a lot of stir fry seasonings too though, like soy sauce, oyster sauce, a bit of toasted sesame oil and a touch of liquid smoke to mimic that wok taste. Comes out wonderfully, and the seasonings pair very well with that roast-y flavor it gets.

I love broccoli! And thanks to Dan’s tutelage, I can now love it even more.

I love broccoli in every form. I love it raw, roasted, steamed, yes! I don't like a bunch of sauces on it although I'll try it with an open mind. I tried growing it and it doesn't produce enough to satisfy our 2 member family. Thanks for the video. Now I want broccoli...

Thanks, Dan! Great tips and suggestions! BTW, the banana bread from the banana episode is epic!!

I brown the broccoli in a frying pan with oil, then add soy sauce and mirin as a finishing step. Timing is key so it comes out crispy and not soggy. The combo of caramelization, salt, and umami is incredible

The video was so FUN! I love broccoli now!

this is the best; the video that broccoli deserves

When you pour the oil over the broccoli, add salt and pepper. Then, season heavily with garlic powder and onion powder. And when you season heavily, put it on until you think to yourself: that's way too much. It'll be about right at that point. This is so delicious, and it also works great on okra!

Great one! Love broccoli and I am impressed with all the info. This will definitely up my game when cooking broccoli. Love the dog analogy! BTW, one of my dogs became totally concerned with the screaming woman. I calmed him down and he can’t wait for some roasted broccoli!

Thank you, Dan!

Seeing the broccoli get sliced through the crown like that had my jaw on the floor, let me tell you

The stems are the best part!

Hey, Dan. I found this video very appealing.

The broccoli dust hack blew my mind, I'll definitely try that next time!

So funny; so informative. I laughed; I shuddered. Thanks for the tips on how to hold the Y peeler.

I like to add minced garlic when I toss them in the oil. yum

My heart sank as you cross cut through that beautiful head of broccoli. I hope you turned it into a smoothie or it was AI generated. I’m definitely going to try this recipe. Thanks Dan.

When I was a kid, I only liked the stems! Now, it's all delicious.🥦

Yummy😍. And the broccoli looks tasty, too!😂 “You just gotta know how to treat it right.”?!?! I mean, jeeze, who writes this steamy stuff! 🤣

You are a Master!

Thanks, Dan. avoiding broccoli dust and saving the stems are essential broccoli tips. I kind of just have to laugh when people don't love the buttery rich flavor of the stems. It's like how butcher's knew about all the secret steak cuts they would take home. It's the broccoli farmer's secret cut they don't tell people about.

Broccoli is awesome! I love it with pasta.

@user-Aaron-

Ай бұрын

Tbh I like it on pizza too, especially when the florets are browned or even blackened a bit at the tip. Sooo good!

Dan's funniest video yet

A thousand thumbs up!

I love broccoli and cook it every week stems and all. ❤️💕❤️

My dog and I compete for the broccoli stalks. I nosh on the thinner parts, and my beagle-terrier mix catches slices of the wider parts cut into tiny frisbee disks that I toss to him. If only those ancient breeders had thought to select for stems that squeaked when he bit them...

Yummmm…broccoli with parm 🥦💚💚💚

I'm so opposite - I've always preferred the stems to the florets!! I'll give Dan my florets any day and I'll take his stems.

@DanielJSouza

Ай бұрын

deal

Funny and so informative❤

I love broccoli 🥦 that is my favourite vegetable. Also, I totally relate to the buying the broccoli crowns and many other cliché in the video. I like to put cheese on my broccoli. Yummy 🤤! Loving the video content, another great video 🥰

Love broccoli! ❤❤😋

Growing up, vegetables used to almost always be prepared by being boiled in salted water.. I hated veggies well into my late teens. When I started roasting them, however, boy did my view change! This video is a perfect example of why *understanding* your food will make it taste infinitely better

Why is Dan so adorable?! I've always been a stem guy myself.

Broccoli dust =bad. Got it. More surface = browning. So smart.

Hi Dan, You are “The Food Guru Nerd Avenger” of all time. I would like to ask if you or a person on the ATK staff could possibly add to the final segment of your and everyone else’s videos on the How To’s if you are a single cook trying to prepare this dish with maybe a multi course dinner. For example if I were to be doing this roasted broccoli dish, can I prep before and cook and re-heat? Or at what point would I throw it in a “NY Apartment” size oven to fit in with my entree, casserole and this being my vegetable as a meal time frame. I guess if you could guide us to make this awesome dish while making other dishes would be great. Any and all help would be great and much appreciated. My big issue is if I am making my entree in the “NY Baby Oven” could I do this dish in advance and find a way to make it still taste fresh instead of just buying it down at the local Bodega? LOL😂

i can't believe it....after 40 years, i'm finally interested in broccoli 😂

Where I live, it can be hard to get fresh broccoli that verging on past it's prime, so I usually just go with frozen. Dump it on to a pan, spray it with a bit of cooking spray, sprinkle with salt and seasonings, and chuck it into the toaster oven. No fuss, no muss.

This dude's legit. ATK still going strong!

I love the broccoli stems best. I peels ‘em and roasts ‘em and gobbles ‘em down. And I don’t use a peeler at all: their skins are tough enough you can just tug them off the tender heart with your bare hands.

@dennischiapello7243

Ай бұрын

Yes, and it's gotten so you have to go out of your way to get broccoli with stems intact. Supermarkets are just selling crowns!

Love Dan

You totally got me with that broccoli cutting

Now this is educational 🎉

Thank you

One of my favorite vegetables since I was a young child.

Love Broccoli, especially Roasted. I love them steamed too, but I steam them to crisp tender. I don't like them over steamed. Never bothered peeling the stems. I always like them the way they were. I'm going to give peeling them a try.

And just like that, Dan's my go-to guy for the hows, whys and hyucks of the kitchen.

I love the stem. Sometimes I wish I could buy only broccoli stems. 😋

I also didn't know that vegetables could be delicious until age 22 because of my WASPy upbringing, lol. But my favorite roasted broccoli seasoning additions are rice vinegar and smashed garlic cloves. So good!!

ok, thats a game changer video. I will have to try all of those methods. Can we do the same with cauliflower?

For roasted broccoli and also asparagus I love to squeeze a little lemon juice over the veggies after they come out of the oven, especially if I plan on grating some parmesan over them. But if I'm making them to accompany a dish that already incorporates a good amount of acidity I lean more on the salt/pepper/garlic and maybe even a little brown sugar or a balsamic vinegar reduction depending on how acidic the main dish is.

Nutritional yeast is another excellent, healthy topping for roasted broccoli, and veggies of all sorts!

@lisab.3091

18 күн бұрын

The smoky sunflower seed topping he mentions included nutritional yeast👍 2 tablespoons raw sunflower seeds, toasted, 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast, ½ teaspoon grated lemon zest, ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt. Grind all together.

I wish I had steamed broccoli growing up, we had boiled broccoli that was strained and then tossed with a tablespoon of butter 100% of the time.

@alysoffoxdale

Ай бұрын

You got butter? Lucky you! Completely unadorned here, or every once in a long while it might have a little of whatever oleo margarine was cheapest on sale. Boiled until yellow, and entirely revolting either way. To this day I can't eat broccoli florets unless they're crisp - either completely raw, or roasted until there's no softness left!

I need more info on the Smoky sunflower seed

Sugar technique for browning was a true surprise. And the chopping florets was like, THAT MAKES SENSE, after it was shown.

Can't believe I never thought to peel the green layer on the stems. Can't wait to try this next time I buy some broccoli.

Yummy

Nicely done Dan. My problem with broccoli is how do you get the coating off the florets? Even the organic has this coating where water can soak thru to clean any evils that are on the broccoli.

How long do you roast?

3 Keys to Holding a Y-Peeler was a revelation, thank you!

I gotta say, asians know how to cook veggies to make them all delish. There was never an issue with any of the kids in my extended family with eating veggies. My parents always peeled the broccoli & cauliflower stems, cubed them and used them in fried rice. We were too poor to be wasting 2/3 of our food. 😉