How do you eat more veggies? This is a question I’ve been working on solving in our house for years now. And we have quite a number of recipes now to help with that. From tasty salads to roasted veggies, it’s all about making veggies super flavorful. This simple roasted broccoli is one of our favorites that we make over and over again because it’s just so yummy. It’s really so simple it’s hardly a recipe, more of a technique. You just toss a few ingredients together on a cookie sheet and roast to golden-browned perfection. And that’s what makes this broccoli taste so good – it’s all about getting the roasting process right! This recipe makes use of fresh broccoli, but if you’re looking for how to roast frozen, check out my Lemon Herb Roasted Broccoli. It has a different temperature and tips that will help you get a better result from frozen.
Ingredients for this Oven Roasted Broccoli
Broccoli – This recipe is for fresh broccoli as I mentioned above, but you can use frozen in my Lemon Herb Broccoli recipe. Tip: make sure your broccoli has dried after you wash it. It’s hard for veggies to properly caramelize while roasting if they start wet. It also really helps to keep your broccoli florets as even as possible. Evenly-sized pieces roast perfectly, while a combination of large and small florets with leave you with overcooked and crunchy broccoli at the same time! Olive oil – provides a nice flavor, but I’ve also used avocado oil as well when I do the Asian version from the variations listed below. Garlic – just a touch of fresh minced garlic cloves goes a long way towards making this broccoli a side dish you’ll make weekly. If you’re not a fan of mincing up garlic, try using a garlic press. It really speeds things up, and it has an unbeatable flavor compared to a jarred garlic, (which I really don’t recommend). If fresh garlic is completely out of the question, try using 1/2-1 teaspoon of garlic granules to your taste. Sea salt & pepper – are key to bringing out the wonderful roasted broccoli flavor.
Let’s make this recipe step by step
Step 1: Start by prepping the ingredients you’ll be tossing together with the broccoli. Step 2: Cut up the heads of broccoli into even-sized florets. You want to make sure everything is bite-sized pieces. For the stems, use a vegetable peeler to remove the tough outer layer. Then thinly slice the broccoli stems about 1/4″ thick. Step 3: Place the broccoli onto a parchment-lined baking sheet, and toss it together with the extra virgin olive oil, garlic, sea salt, and pepper. Step 4: Roast the broccoli until crisp tender (or fork tender) and browning around the edges, 15-20 minutes. Finally, serve with anything you’d like! Or check out the variations below for more fun flavors to add to the mix. I really hope you enjoy this super easy Roasted Broccoli recipe! If you have any requests for what you’d like to see next, let me know with a comment below. And if you do get a chance to make this, I hope you’ll leave me a comment/rating below. I always love hearing from you here!
