36. Chemo Broccoli Anyone?

When you are a chemo patient and your immunity is low, you are advised NOT to eat any raw veggies or fruit that you can't peel.  So here is a recipe I thought I'd share with you.  Made it yesterday.  A healthy snack.  Enjoy!

33    Broccoli Bites – A Savory Treat

Ingredients:                                                                                                 

4 cups broccoli florets, finely chopped                                                                                    

1 small or medium onion, finely chopped                                                                        

2 garlic cloves, chopped                                                                                                         

1 TBsp of olive oil                                                                                                                     

3 eggs

¾ c flour                                                                       

1 cup shredded cheese, any kind  you like

Pepper and salt to taste

Equipment: mixing bowls, skillet or frying pan, baking sheet

Rinse and chop up the broccoli, the onion and garlic.  Heat the oil in the skillet or frying pan.  Add the chopped onion and garlic first.   Fry till golden brown.  Add the broccoli and a bit more oil if needed.  Fry until the broccoli is fairly soft.  Remove from heat and let cool completely.

Whisk the eggs in a large bowl.  Add the flour and the shredded cheese.  Add the cold broccoli mixture.  Mix well.  Form patties with your hands or use a spoon.  The patties don’t have to be perfect in shape, but the mass does have to stick together.  Make roughly a dozen patties.  Arrange them on the baking sheet so that they do not touch each other.  If the baking sheet does not have a non-stick coating you can line it with parchment paper.  Alternatively, you could spoon the mixture into aluminum muffin tins.

Preheat your oven to 400F.  Bake on the middle rack for about 15 minutes.  Then flip the patties and bake for another 10 minutes.  Take out of the oven and let cool.  They will keep in the fridge for a couple of days, or in the freezer for a week to 10 days.

Makes roughly 12 patties      Serve with a dipping sauce if you find them too dry.

Adapted from Ceri Marsh’s recipe in The Costco Connection, July/August 2017

Tomorrow a post on the "murky" time between the FIT letter and my colonoscopy.