Broccoli with toasted sesame:

Ingredients:

• Broccoli: 300 gms
• Onions: chopped 1 cup
• Garlic: thinly chopped 1 tsp
• Dried red chili: 2-3
• Sweet soy sauce: 3 tbsp
• Sesame seeds: 2 tsp
• Oil: 1 tbsp
• Salt: to taste

Method:

• Toast the sesame seeds and set aside
• Cut broccolis into florets and blench. To do this, put a pot full of water to boil. Once the water starts to boil, add salt and turn down the stove to medium. Add the broccoli florets to this water and take them out within 1 minute. If you choose, you can put these florets into a bucket full of ice water. In doing so, you stop the cooking process immediately. I have to admit; I was a little lazy today and didn’t want to do the extra step of ice-bath for my broccoli. I just dunked them into the saline solution and got done with it.
• On a separate frying pan, heat oil.
• Add the onion, garlic and re chilies. Stir for 1-2 minutes.
• Add the blenched broccoli. Continue to stir for another 5 minutes
• Add the soy sauce, reduce heat and stir occasionally for another 5-8 minutes or until the soy sauce gets incorporated with broccoli.
• Garnish with the toasted sesame seeds