Broccoli and Cauliflower - Help

[Binky]

All of my summer broccoli and caulliflowers have come at once. Does anyone have any recipes that will freeze well?

Thanks

[Colin_M]

You have my sympathies. That's happened to me in the last few years too.

This time I only planted my broccoli in small batches. The fist batch of 10 has arrived in a controlled burst and the next lot are still quite small. I have a further set of seedlings that are only a few weeks old.

I think we've moved from having a glut to having an intermittent supply. However I hate wasting things we've grown ourselves, so prefer it this way.

Other than Caulflower/Broccoli cheese, I can't think of too many recipies for freezing, but am sure others will think of some.

[Nature's Babe]

A few ideas - par boil the broccoli and cauli florets for a few minutes,till still firm, drain well,then pour on a gallon of cheese sauce lol and freeze in bags. take out and finnish cooking in the oven till cauli is tender. Second suggestion
Buy some pickling onions etc and find a recipe to make picallili
Cauli / broccoli and stilton soup is nice, saute some onion add vegetable stock and cauli and broccoli florets cook till tender, blenderise, add a pkt cream of herb soup or chopped herbs and a little cornflour mixed in milk, finally grate in some stilton to taste. delicious.

[Onei]

Could you perhaps just freeze the vegetables in a bag? Maybe do a test on a small batch to see what they are like when you defrost them.

[Beryl]

Cauli will keep well in the fridge for about 2 weeks if trimmed of greenery and wrapped in cling film.

Beryl.