Before you begin with trimming, prepare a bowl of cold water with lemon juice.
You’ll need a sharp paring knife or a good quality vegetable peeler.
See here how to Prepare an Artichoke.
A step by step photographic set of instructions follows:
Begin by removing the outer, tougher leaves.
Work your way around the choke.
The leaves will come away without too much effort.
Keep removing the outer leaves until you get the more tender inner choke. For recipes calling for the stem to kept in tact, you can peel the stem at this point.
Trim the stem at the base of the choke or leave a little stem attached. That will depend on you.
Keep the stem aside for further cleaning while you start trimming the artichoke.
Remove the tougher skin at the base. This is usually a deep green.
Work your way all around the base. Kind of like peeling an apple.
Using a serrated knife, cut off approximately 2/3 from the top of the leaves and discard.
Now you will have something that may look familiar.
Cut this in half.
or into quarters
When removing the inner hair from a half choke, use the point of a sharp paring knife or scoop it out with a teaspoon.
Now you have a clean artichoke. You can use the half, the quarter or cut into slithers from here.
See here to Trim the stem.
Remember to put the cut artichokes into a bowl of lemon water straight away so they don’t darken.
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