Broccoli with raisins and pine nuts

This to me is a recipe from memory. It remembers me a gentle woman who worked for my family as cook: a dalicate and tiny woman and very kind as well and also a very good cook.
She was Friulian but cause she had worked in many in many cities in Italy, from North to South, and brought in her kitchen the memory of the places where she lived and worked.

Ingredients: broccoli tops, a clove of garlic, pine nuts, dried raisins, olive oil, salt.


Saute garlic, lightly crushed with the blade of a knife and then add in the pan broccoli in a single layer, the stem pointing downwards.
Cook over very gentle heat with the lid on and stir them giving the pan only small taps not to spoil the florets. Add a little water if needed.
When you think broccoli are cooked, salte and garnish with a handful of raisins, previously softened in water, and pine nuts.

 It is a very delicate dish. instead of broccoli you can use also white or roman green cauliflower.