While passing the street on a winter evening, I came across vegetable vendor carts brimming with broccoli. The abundance suggested that it wasn’t prohibitively expensive. Naturally, I stopped 🙂
As I pondered this scene, it struck me that the popularity of broccoli has soared in our society, prompting farmers to cultivate it. I felt nice, as I had never before encountered a cart overflowing with broccoli.
However, within a few weeks, the broccoli carts disappeared, and once again, broccoli was an most expensive jewel on a vegetable cart. Interestingly, we do not know have a receipe for it in our Indian culture. Instead, we prefer our ‘ghobi kee sabji’ in winters, with roti or puri. Additionally, we appreciate cabbage both as a sabji and a salad.
This prompted me to delve into a brief nutritional analysis, not to disparage broccoli, but to shed light on why it might not be the dietary gem we think we’re missing in Indian diet.
I hope you enjoy going through this….
Umesh Chhikara 