Recipe - Creamed Broccoli

1 pack (16oz) frozen broccoli
pieces (all florets the
best)
One fourth cup Butter or margarine
One half cup Flour
2 cup Defatted chicken broth
1 cup Half and half or light cream
Salt and pepper to taste
1 ds Fresh grated nutmeg

Cook broccoli by your favorite method until almost tender. Set aside.
Either by hand or in a food processor, chop broccoli fine but do not puree.
Make roux: in sauce pan by melting butter and stirring in the flour, Stir
into a paste and cooking and stirring several minutes. Meanwhile heat
chicken broth and cream. Gradually add hot liquid slowly, constantly
stirring until mixture thickens and comes to a boil. Thin with more liquid
only if required. Add the cooked broccoli and continue to cook and stir
several minutes more. Season to taste.

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 486 by P&S Gruenwald
sitm@ne.infi.net on Jan 10, 1998