A new (to me) way to cook an artichoke!

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karennoca

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This is brilliant, and worked perfectly for us. I had two beautiful, and tight artichokes and wanted to grill them yesterday. Something I had seen on TV. The first step was to clean them up; take off the tiny, tough leaves at the stem end, cut off the top tip off the choke, shorten the stem and using a potato peeler, remove the tough outer part of the stem. These choke leaves did not have the sharp, pointy tips, so I did not need to cut them off. Now, place the choke top tip down on hard surface, while holding the stem, use a very sharp knife to cut the choke in half. Work carefully so your hand does not slip.

With a grapefruit spoon, remove the fuzzy part of the choke heart.

Place the chokes in a steamer basket cut side down and steam over hot water in a large pot, with the lid on. About half way through, turn the choke over, put lid back on and continue to cook.

They came out perfectly. I brushed with fresh lemon butter all over and decided not to bother grilling which only imparts a bit of char anyway. I loved this method and there was no need to dip the choke.

 
Go back to 29618 Karen. I posted grilled artichoke halves.....

You can make it easier by cutting the artichokes in half after trimming and putting them immediately into a big pot of salt water and cooking until tender instead of steaming. Then take out and scrape the hairy choke out. What I do next is to drizzle hot oil (olive oil infused with hot chili pepper) over it and sprinkle with parmesan before putting on the grill. Delicious.

 
Thanks Cathy, I do remember that post now, I even responded to it!

The picture link was not working for me. Taking the choke out prior to cooking was no issue with the grapefruit spoon, came right out in one scoop. Had to dig in the corners of bit.
I saw somewhere on the Internet about steaming them because that poster intended on grilling them, as well and did not want the chokes water logged. I will have to try the grilling part next

 
In all the times I've made them they have not gotten waterlogged

I'll try steaming next time just to see the difference but I can't imagine a better ending than the way I've done it in the past.

 
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