I tend to focus on main dishes on here, but last night as I was making one of my faaaaave side dishes, it hit me: why the heck haven't I posted this on my blog??? Perhaps I find it "too easy" to be blog-worthy. Maybe I make it so much that I've completely overlooked it as being something people would be interested in reading about. But, I decided, let me give this thing the "15 minutes" it deserves, because it's definitely my favorite way to eat broccoli. Since my sister-in-law showed me how to do this a while ago, I actually don't think I've made broccoli any other way! It's crazy easy, delicious, and healthy. There really is no going wrong here.
Garlic Roasted Broccoli
Ingredients:
2 crowns of broccoli, chopped into florets
3 - 5 cloves of garlic, finely minced
1 - 2 tablespoons of olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
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| If you don't have a garlic press, get one! |
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| Broccoli cut into florets. Nomnomnom... I love broccoli! |
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix salt, pepper, olive oil and minced garlic in a small bowl.
2. Put broccoli in a foil-lined baking sheet (I only use the foil for easy clean-up).
3. Pour oil, salt & pepper, and garlic mixture over broccoli. Massage mixture into broccoli florets, making sure you get those yummy garlic pieces in between the "branches" and the "canopies" (lol).
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| See the garlic on the branches? Don't let any of the garlicky goodness just sit in the baking dish. |
4. Spread broccoli out on baking sheet. Pop in oven for approximately 30 minutes.
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| I love the edges a little crispy. |
Are you wondering why the broccoli looks more scant than in the first photo??? Well, when I asked my husband to take the broccoli out of the oven, he decided to eat a quarter of the broccoli straight off the baking sheet. I guess that's a good thing??? Lol
