37 Broccoli Recipes That'll Have You Craving Those Little Green Trees Every Night
You’ve read a lot of broccoli recipes in your day, we’re sure. Broccoli cheese soup, broccoli salad—you’ve seen it all. But did that soup have cheddar both in the broth and melted onto croutons that got scattered over the top? Did that salad make use of the vegetable’s stems (which are every bit as delicious as the florets)?
Have you considered throwing some broccoli into your egg fried rice? Or blitzing broccoli into a pesto and tossing the resulting zippy, savory sauce with pasta? (We could go on.) Our best broccoli recipes are here to help you level up your weeknight game—because broccoli is still a bona fide dinnertime hero; you just needed someone to remind you.
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Broccoli Cheddar Soup With Cheesy Croutons
Our better-than-ever broccoli cheddar is lighter and brighter than some other versions, with a velvety texture that comes from blended potatoes and broccoli stalks rather than heavy cream.
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Roasted Broccoli and Tofu With Creamy Miso Dressing
If you needed a reason to keep a big jar of sesame seeds on hand, pre-toasted and ready to go, this healthy dinner recipe is it. But note: They’re also the perfect crunchy topper for soups and roasted vegetables.
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Roasted Broccoli
This simple roasted broccoli recipe—just broccoli, salt, black pepper, olive oil, and heat—results in perfectly tender, browned vegetables every time. And if you want to kick it up a notch, there's always cheese sauce.
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Pan-Roasted Steak With Crispy Broccoli
Two large heads of broccoli, three steaks, and you've got a quick weeknight dinner for four. No time to explain the math, just trust us! Bonus: Any leftovers make for a killer next-day sandwich.
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White Beans and Charred Broccoli with Parmesan
Roast broccoli to the point of lightly charring it and the vegetable transforms into something crispy and rich. Balance that with nutty, buttery gigante beans and you've got a satisfying vegetarian main dish.
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Cheesy Broccoli Skillet
This recipe, which we lovingly call Broccoli Delight, really comes through when you're hungry but haven't planned dinner. Think cheesy broccoli casserole, but with fewer ingredients, more dynamic texture, and done in only 15 minutes.
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Grilled Broccoli With Avocado and Sesame
Broccoli can take more heat than you might think! So, prepare the grill, throw the crowns on whole, and don't fuss with it too much. Once the veg is charred in a few spots, let it cool slightly, and then chop into a summery side dish.
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Sesame Tofu With Broccoli
A riff on the American-Chinese classic, sesame chicken, this vegetarian dinner is one of our favorite ways to use up a head of broccoli.
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Broccoli Melts
We admit it: Not all broccoli recipes are created equal. Here’s a working-from-home lunch that’s quick enough to make between Zooms and straight-up delicious. (So, yes, it's the best broccoli recipe.)
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Big-Flavor Broccoli
In case we haven't been clear: Don't throw away your broccoli stems! They're so flavorful, they could be their own separate vegetable, and this umami-packed vegetarian recipe is, hands-down, our favorite way to cook the whole plant.
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Broccoli and Cashew Cream Soup
This creamy broccoli soup belongs in your weeknight dinner rotation. A garlicky cashew purée—which you could use to thicken any vegetable soup—gives it a lush mouthfeel. Frozen broccoli works just as well (measure by weight, toss into the pot straight from frozen, and cook until thawed and bright green).
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Pork Shoulder With Pineapple and Sesame Broccoli
Nutty-tasting sesame broccoli is a great contrast to the juicy pork shoulder and sweet, caramelized pineapple in this recipe, but we'd eat it as a side dish for almost anything.
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Broccoli Caesar
Anchovies: check. Garlic: check. Dijon mustard: check. Parmesan cheese: check. Broccoli and Napa cabbage? Stay with us, because you've never met a better, brighter riff on the classic Caesar salad than this one.
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Charred Broccoli Salad With Figs
Looking for an impressive side dish to serve at your next dinner party? Call this one Broccoli, Two Ways: The stems get puréed with tahini to make a sauce and the broccoli florets get grilled and tossed with figs and fresh herbs. Fancy.
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Grilled Beef With Broccoli
All the flavor of the Chinese-American stir-fry (thanks to a marinade of oyster sauce, Shaoxing wine, and soy sauce), but with a summery vibe via grilled steak and broccoli.
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Broccoli and Egg Fried Rice
Broccoli is the star of this recipe, which makes good use of leftover rice and comes together quickly. Come to think of it: This is one of the easiest and most satisfying weeknight dinners we know of.
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Cold Sesame Noodles With Broccoli and Kale
You could use a deep-fryer to get extra-crispy broccoli, but we opted for a high-heat roasting method for this healthy broccoli recipe. The results: deliciously crispy edges, less clean up.
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Broccoli Bolognese with Orecchiette
This pasta dinner isn't vegetarian, but it's definitely veg-heavy, and while sweet Italian sausage is a perfect pairing for broccoli, this recipe is flexible. Feel free to play around!
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Sheet-Pan Chicken Meatballs and Charred Broccoli
What’s better than a whole dinner that you can cook on a single baking sheet? A comfort-food dinner that you can cook on a single baking sheet. This one takes its cue from tsukune (Japanese chicken meatballs) and their signature sweet-and-sour sauce.
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Broccoli Salad With Peanut Dressing
This is one of our best broccoli recipes, and guess where it comes from? A pizza shop. (You never know!) Fresh broccoli gets over-the-top flavor from a creamy peanut butter dressing and dried cherries.
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Broccoli Soup With Turmeric, Peanuts, and Crispy Shallots
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Crispy Roasted Broccoli With Tahini Sauce
Even the simplest, throw-together tahini sauce makes a platter of roasted broccoli feel a lot more special. Fancy it up with a squeeze of lemon and you won't even know who you are anymore.
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Chinese Broccoli With Soy Paste
There are only two ingredients in this simple side dish: Chinese broccoli and soy paste (a Taiwanese condiment with more body and tang than soy sauce). Can't find Chinese broccoli? Broccolini works, too.
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Broccoli-Quinoa Salad with Buttermilk Dressing
If you're ever cornered by a bland bowl of vegetables or whole grains, take a note from this salad recipe and throw some fresh herbs on it. Basic, be gone!
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Easy Vegetarian Calzones
Calzones on a weeknight? Yes you can! Just start with store-bought pizza dough. Stuff it with roasted broccoli, ricotta, and Parmesan, bake until golden brown all over, then serve it with marinara sauce for dunking (which, yes, you can buy that, too).
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Roasted and Charred Broccoli with Peanuts
We love nutritional yeast on popcorn, we love nutritional yeast on this broccoli side dish, we just love nutritional yeast. Period. The savory, cheesy flavor it imparts with just a shake of the can is unparalleled.
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Cracked Farro and Broccoli Salad
This crunchy, salty, filling salad proves that it’s worth having a mandoline slicer. It's also worth protecting yourself with cut-resistant gloves when you use said mandoline slicer. (Just trust us on this one, okay?)
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Grilled Broccoli and Arugula Salad
We love the green-on-green of this charred broccoli and arugula salad with loads of fresh herbs. It's unexpectedly complex in flavor and can be made hours ahead of serving to boot.
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Broccoli and Cheese Quiche
Sure, there's a lot of butter and cream in this quiche recipe, but there's also a lot of green stuff: broccoli, Swiss chard, chives. It all balances out, right?
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Pork Chops With Broccoli Salsa Verde
Don't sleep on this one: Char broccoli stalks, then chop them and toss them with briny olives, herbs, vinegar, and olive oil. Spoon the chunky relish over pan-seared pork chops (or eat it straight out of the bowl).
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Grilled Cauliflower and Broccoli With Lentils
Grill a combo of broccoli and cauliflower, set the veg over a bed of lentils, and top the whole thing with a bright, minty chutney dressing, crunchy pumpkin seeds, and lots of fresh herbs.
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Spinach-Broccoli Soup With Garlic and Cilantro
This recipe is for garlic lovers. (And broccoli lovers, duh.) Not only does garlic get cooked into the soup, but golden grown garlic chips act as a crunchy topping.
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Grilled Mustard Broccoli
This is not your average side dish. In this recipe, the broccoli gets slathered in a spiced yogurt sauce, then grilled for even more flavor. Need we say more?
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Make-Ahead Broccoli and Quinoa Salad
The best thing about this broccoli recipe is that it can be made ahead of time. In fact, this meal-worthy salad is better that way: Oil and lemon juice soften the vegetable's hard crunch as it sits.
