Cake with a peach filling and an amaretto glaze.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter or margarine
- ¼ cup water
- 1 lemon, juiced
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 (16 ounce) package frozen broccoli florets
Instructions
- In a large skillet, combine the butter, water, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Add the broccoli to the pan, stir to coat, and cover with a lid. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes over medium-low heat, stirring once, until broccoli is tender but still bright green. Serve warm, or refrigerate and serve cold.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 137 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 8 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 110 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Used fresh broccoli, half a lemon and simmered it all together to our liking. Will do again.
Very simple and tasty. We didn’t use water and reduced cook time to 7 minutes because we like our broccoli firm.
Very tasty. Like it! I would recommend half of lemon if you don’t like a strong sour taste.
I’ve made this dish before with the cayenne pepper and this time without. Honestly, I prefer the dish without the cayenne. I don’t cook the broccoli for the full 10/15 minutes at the end because I like broccoli al dente. All hail the crunch! Great side dish.
Let me tell you, I turned into a pig and ate all of it in one setting.
It wasn’t as thick as I wanted it. I ended up skipping the water and adding a tablespoon of flour to the butter and lemon and then adding almond milk ( I imagine regular milk would work as well) We like a lot of lemon flavor and since my lemon was quite small I ended up adding some lemon pepper to it as well. The milk took away the sour taste of the lemon and made the sauce nice and creamy like I wanted.
Was a little watery. Will steam the broccoli, rather than boil, next time. Also reduce water a little in the sauce and determine if it needs a thickener such as for flour/starch.
I made this dish for a dinner with a few of my girlfriends. I bought a big bag of fresh broccoli florets to use. I started by melting 1.5 sticks of butter and sautéing some minced garlic. I think squeezed a lemon into the butter. I added some fresh ground pepper and sea salt. I then added the broccoli. I noticed that the lemon started to turn the broccoli a brown color rather quickly. My friend’s really enjoyed the flavor though….I think next time I may steam the broccoli and cook the sauce separately, then pour the sauce over the broccoli and toss right before serving, so it doesn’t turn so brown.
Followed instructions per recipe…waaaay to lemony, next time would add lemon at end of broccoli cook cycle and maybe try juice of 1/2 lemon
Fantastic
You gotta use fresh broccoli when a butter mixture is coating a vegetable. I blanched the broccoli and then stirred in the hot butter mixture when I was ready to serve. The butter and lemon did come through in taste. It was a good a quick dish to make.
Made it as posted, would be good on most any veggie, in my case, I used this on Baby Carrots this time and it was great. Will definitely do with broccoli also, and I bet would be lovely on fresh spinach!!!! Uses are endless, thanks for sharing.
No changes. The secret is: Have the water going to a rolling boil, add broccoli turn off heat ,cover and let it sit for 15 min.
I used an orange instead of lemon and added the orange zest. Turned our very nice.
Yes, I’ll make it again. I found the cooking time was closer to 7 minutes than the listed 10-15.
I used this to dress riced broccoli and it was a hit with my family.
Delicious. It’s hard to make broccoli taste good for my husband. He loved it.
Taste was good but I think the frozen flowerets take away from the recipe.
Very tasty and nice easy to make. The family loved It!
My family loved this. I used fresh broccoli and steamed it, leaving it still crisp. Then added the broccoli to the melted lemon butter sauce and stirred until the broccoli was warm and coated, about 2 minutes. Wonderful
I made this tonight and used the broccoli from my garden. I did not steam it first at all. All I ate for dinner was this and a tomato from my garden. This was absolutely amazing!! I posted that on Facebook and will make this many more times for sure!! Thank you for the great recipe!!