Ingredients

　　This one is very useful when you need a vegetable in a hurry: you cut them into short pieces and toss them into a pan of hot olive oil, leave them to the tenderness fairy, then, when they are golden at the edges, season with lemon juice, salt, and black pepper. Add a scattering of hand-torn herb and you have a ten-minute vegetable dish of surprising freshness and refinement. A mound of brown rice at their side and you have supper, albeit one without protein.

　　Tender