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baby broccoli

British  

noun

  1. (sometimes cap) another name for Broccolini

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Gai lan is another name for Chinese broccoli and broccoletti — not to be confused with broccolini or broccoli rabe — is another off-shoot hybrid of broccoli that is also sometimes called broccolette or "sweet baby broccoli."

From Salon

That means using hard, dense vegetables like potatoes, hard squash, carrots and cauliflower for whole pieces of chicken, pork and beef, and smaller vegetables like asparagus, baby broccoli and sugar snap peas for seafood like salmon or shrimp, or chunks of meat.

From Washington Times

To make cooking a mindless task, the device has a catalog of preset recipes including roast chicken, baby broccoli and bacon.

From New York Times

After the chicken was done, we baked baby broccoli in each oven, which took about 6 minutes in the Brava and 11 minutes in the Wolf.

From New York Times

So there are chewy ping pong balls of ricotta with crumbles of lamb sausage and flecks of lemon; crisped octopus with lime curd; baby broccoli with Chinese black beans; and those weirdly rich potatoes a la plancha.

From Los Angeles Times