Roasted Broccoli with Parmesan Cheese

Oven roasted broccoli has never been easier or more delicious! This roasted broccoli recipe uses fresh broccoli, garlic, salt, lemon and parmesan cheese. Baked broccoli has the best flavour with slightly charred florets and tender stems. It's a perfect side dish for any meal - on a weeknight or as part of your next holiday spread.

Calling all broccoli lovers!🥦

One of THE BEST ways to prepare this highly nutritious vegetable is oven roasted.

Baked broccoli brings out the best flavour with slightly charred florets and tender stems.

In fact, roasting vegetables tends to bring out the best in a lot of them!

Check out these recipes if you love roasting veggies:

• Simple Roasted Broccoli and Potatoes (one pan)🥦
• Oven Roasted Yellow Potatoes with Lemon Greek Yogurt Sauce🍋
• Roasted Potatoes and Carrots Recipe {one pan!}🥕
• and these Oven Roasted Cinnamon Sweet Potatoes (Cubed)🍠

When you first go gluten-free, recipes like easy roasted vegetables are a life saver.

They're naturally gluten-free, simple to make, and fit into your busy schedule.

Jump to:

• 📝Ingredients
• 🔪How to make roasted broccoli
• 🔄Substitutions
• 💃Variations
• 🥣Equipment
• 🥡Storage
• 🥘What to serve with roasted broccoli
• ✅Is it okay to eat roasted broccoli?
• ❓Is it better to steam or roast broccoli?
• 🏅Is roasted broccoli better than boiled?
• 🥦What's the best cooking method for broccoli?
• 🙋‍♀️Top tips
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

📝Ingredients

Here's what you'll need to make this oven roasted broccoli recipe:

• Broccoli - fresh, not frozen
• Olive oil
• Garlic
• Kosher salt
• Lemon
• Parmesan cheese

See recipe card for quantities.

🔪How to make roasted broccoli

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.

🔄Substitutions

This recipe for roasted broccoli is naturally gluten-free. If you need dairy-free too, just skip the parmesan cheese.

Or try a gluten-free and dairy-free parmesan "cheese", like this one from Violife Foods.

💃Variations

One of the best things about roasted broccoli is that it's so versatile!

You can add basically whatever dried herbs or spices you like.

Roasted broccoli can go spicy too! Try adding in some red pepper flakes🔥

Or you can go savoury with tarragon and thyme.

🥣Equipment

You'll need a large baking sheet or a couple cookie pans for this recipe.

Plus, a large bowl to toss everything together.

🥡Storage

Leftover roasted broccoli will be good in the fridge for up to 3 days.

You can heat it up for supper the next day or have the roasted broccoli with eggs in the morning☀️

Don't be freezing this broccoli recipe🚫

🥘What to serve with roasted broccoli

Roasted broccoli goes with just about anything! Which is why it's a go-to for healthy, gluten-free eating.

Serve this broccoli alongside some steamed basmati rice or roasted potatoes (like these Oven Roasted Yellow Potatoes with Lemon Greek Yogurt Sauce) and a protein option, like:

• 🐔Cast Iron Skillet Chicken Breast
• 🥘Cast Iron Skillet Whole Roasted Chicken
• 🐟Easy Baked Salmon with Mayo, or
• 🐖Cast Iron Skillet Boneless Pork Chops with Homemade Spice Rub

To keep it simple, when you're making meals for the family that are gluten-free, think in terms of starchy/carb + veg + protein!

✅Is it okay to eat roasted broccoli?

Absolutely it's okay! In fact, I highly recommend it😄

Roasting broccoli is an easy, hands-off way to get a super nutritious vegetable on the table at suppertime.

❓Is it better to steam or roast broccoli?

Steaming broccoli is a great way to cook broccoli. But there's a catch: as long as we're talking about actual STEAMING and not BOILING.

Here's why: plunging the broccoli into a boiling pot of water causes much of the nutrition to leach out.

Even steaming will cause some nutritional loss. If you've ever steamed broccoli over a pot of boiling water, you've seen the green-tinged water leftover? There's some nutrition in that green water (it happens.)

But when we're talking steaming vs. boiling broccoli, I recommend steaming. And be sure to steam the broccoli only until it's tender and the colour is still BRIGHT GREEN🥦

No one wants to eat broccoli that's almost green/brown colour and is so mushy, you don't really need your teeth to eat it.

So when you do steam your broccoli, be sure to keep an eye on it. Or just set a kitchen timer like I do. Start with 5 minutes and check it after that.

Check out this post for Chicken, Rice and Broccoli Meal Prep where I show you how long to steam broccoli for meal prep.

🏅Is roasted broccoli better than boiled?

In my opinion, absolutely, 1000% yes! Roasting the broccoli makes it easier to prevent the overcooking that can happen to broccoli that's been boiled.

Check out this recipe for Simple Roasted Broccoli and Potatoes (one pan) to see how to roast broccoli and potatoes in the same pan.

And this recipe for Sheet Pan Maple Dijon Chicken and Broccoli Bake for an all-in-one pan supper that includes roasted broccoli.

🥦What's the best cooking method for broccoli?

Stir-fry, saute, roasting and steaming are the best ways to cook broccoli, I think. If you're like me and you want the easiest cooking method that keeps the MOST nutrition, those are the ones to stick with.

Hope you love this recipe for roasted broccoli like we do.

If you try it, please rate and comment below - I would be so grateful❣️

~April

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