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A plate of roasted broccoli florets with brown butter bread crumbs, surrounded by bowls of salt, red pepper flakes, paprika, and more broccoli.

Broccoli, Brown Butter Bread Crumbs, Chermoula


  • Author: Chef Curtis Gamble

Description

Make vegetables the star of your meal. 


Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 crowns of broccoli cut into florets
  • Chermoula (see below)
  • Brown butter bread crumb ( see below)

For the chermoula:

  • 1 bunch of parsley
  • 1 bunch of cilantro
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp whole coriander
  • 1 tbsp whole cumin
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp aleppo pepper flake
  • 1 whole shallot minced
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • Zest of 2 lemons and 2 limes
  • EVOO

For the fool proof brown butter bread crumbs:

  • 400 g dried sourdough
  • 100 g brown butter

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 425, toss florets in evoo and salt and pepper to taste. Roast broccoli, until tender, for roughly 30 min.
  2. Toss with Chermoula and lay flat on a serving dish and top with bread crumbs. Serve immediately.

For the chermoula:

  1. Rough chop Parsley and Cilantro, grind whole spices and combine with the rest of the spice,  garlic, shallot, lemon and lime zest in a bowl . Add 2 T red wine.
  2. Cover just to the top with EVOO and salt and pepper to taste.

For the fool proof brown butter bread crumbs:

  1. Preheat the oven to 275. Combine warm brown butter and sourdough in the bowl of a food processor and blend and break up the bread until totally combined.
  2. Move to a sheet tray and toast in 15 min intervals until golde.