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Dinner · 20 min · 2 as a side

Charred broccoli salad

Char, then dress. Not a mayo salad.

The sheet · 2 as a side · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Char, then dress. Not a mayo salad.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • broccoli
  • lemon
  • olive oil
  • chili flakes

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: parmesan.

Method

  1. Char it hard — a very hot dry pan or a 230C oven — until there are black edges. Blanched broccoli in a salad is a sad thing.
  2. Cut flat faces so it touches the heat. Round florets never color.
  3. Lemon and chili flakes while it is still hot, so it absorbs rather than sitting in the dressing.
  4. Parmesan at the end. It can be served warm or at room temperature, and it is better warm.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

broccoli
The stalk is better than the florets and most people throw it away.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.
chili flakes
Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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