Life's a breeze with calabrese

In homage to a vegetable of class.

I opened my veg box. "apples, carrots, fennel, pears, mushroom and the leeks. Wait a sec those are some funny looking leeks damn"

My first experience with Calabrese. Somehow Calabrese had replaced my leeks. I didn't know it at the time but this was a good thing, a very good thing! I admit i hadn't heard of Calabrese. From the name, perhaps they're a funk band, big in the 70's but no Calabrese is a mathematical type of broccoli full of helixes and spirals. A thing of beauty.

I found the mild flavour of the Calabrese went well with Greek yogurt and the crunch of almonds. Enjoy.

Ingredients:

Calabrese 

50g blanched roasted almonds

Squeeze of lemon juice

Knob of butter

Pinch of chilli and salt

$ spoons of Greek Yogurt

Directions:

Steam the Calabrese like Broccoli, for around three to four minutes. Empty straight into iced water to preserve its colour. Heat the butter in a pan. Dry the Calabrese and add with the chilli and salt. Saute until warm , add the lemon juice and then serve with the almonds and Greek yogurt. Alternatively you could serve the salad cold.