Chinese Broccoli/Gai Lan
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by admin in Ingredients
If you wait too long and the flowers open up, the Chinese broccoli becomes bitter. You can also tell from the cut stems if the Chinese broccoli will be perfect or too old. See the bottoms of these cut stems? It’s milky-transluscent and smooth.
If the bottoms of the stem have a hard white circle in the middle (instead of smooth, milky and translucent) it will probably be past its prime and taste tough and bitter.
Photo above is store-bought Chinese Broccoli…see the beautiful stem-bottoms?
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