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Tia Mowry, star of the Cooking Channel's new show "Tia Mowry At Home," shows Refinery29 food editor Elettra Wiedemann how to make one of the most polarizing foods out there — looking at you, broccoli — appealing to everyone. The key is to give the florets a quick sauté so they're nice and crispy, add some flavor boosters, and BAM! You've got the easiest-ever healthy side.

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Transcript
00:03Here we are with Tia Laurie and Refinery29 has picked five ingredients that we think every
00:10millennial should have in her kitchen for healthy versatile meals and you chose broccoli yes so tell
00:15us about it well I chose broccoli mainly because it's delicious and kind of like what you just said
00:22it's it's versatile you can use broccoli in almost every dish just cut them into I like to say
00:31nice bite-sized trees put them all into a pot steaming water let this steam for about five
00:41minutes so you don't you want to steam them so they're cooked but you don't want to steam them to
00:46death it smells so good right smell good broccoli we need to get ice in here yes we are going
00:54to
00:54blanch these which basically just means you like stick it in an ice bath for like a minute or less
00:59really I mean it's just kind of to stop the cooking cooking yes and I love that you're like using
01:03your
01:03hands I feel like I do that too at home and oh yeah it's important to like get in there
01:08and touch your
01:09food yeah make sure that we get all of the water off the broccoli because you don't want the water
01:15in the pan with the oil when we saute them I'm going to add some olive oil because we're going
01:21to saute
01:21these bad boys and I want them to get nice and crispy yum yeah it smells good I love hearing
01:29that sizzle
01:30brown the edges or the tips of the broccoli so what spices are these that you're adding um this right
01:36here is garlic powder and a pinch of chili pepper flakes when would you serve this this this rock
01:44like how would you use it how I as a side dish it smells so good drizzle some lemon juice
01:50on top
01:51and why are you putting your hand there just for the seeds or yes so the seeds don't
01:57zest my lemon you start from the top and you just want to get the super yellow part right yes
02:04the super
02:04yellow part let's see if I get your approval oh it's really good it's really good and the lemon does
02:14like right it gives it a really nice kick to it before it was just broccoli now it's broccolay broccolay
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