The best broccoli of your life

If I find something a must, it's broccoli. Honestly, it's quite tasty, especially healthy, but still very green in flavor. I always try to fluff it up a bit, because just broccoli is just so broccoli. I stumbled upon a recipe from our neighbors at FavorFlav that makes broccoli take on seriously delicious forms, they even dare to call it the best broccoli recipe of your life. I'm going to try it.

What does this recipe entail?
Roasting broccoli: it's not difficult, but there are some tricks that make your dish just a bit better.

Tearing

When you cut broccoli into pieces, a lot often gets lost. But if you make a small cut in the branches and then carefully tear them apart, you'll keep a lot more broccoli. By the way, you can use all parts of the broccoli in this recipe, including the stem: just cut it into small, equal pieces.

Spreading

Make sure you don't just throw all the broccoli pieces in one pile when you're roasting them. With everything in one pile, they will only steam, and the broccoli won't get nice and crispy. So spread the pieces well over your baking sheet or, if necessary, over two. This applies to all vegetables you want to roast, by the way.

With your hands

Then you season the broccoli as always with olive oil, salt, and pepper. After that, we get to the part of the recipe that everyone is so wildly enthusiastic about. First, chopped garlic is added. Then everything is mixed well, and you need to make sure that the broccoli is nicely coated in oil. Use your hands for this, so you can feel if the oil is well distributed over the broccoli. Then you put the baking sheet in the oven for about 20 to 25 minutes.

Flavor enhancers

When the broccoli comes out of the oven hot, you sprinkle some extra olive oil, fresh basil, lemon zest, roasted pine nuts, and a good amount of Parmesan cheese over it, which you can prepare in the meantime. Then mix everything together and the result is crispy, cheesy next level broccoli.

Text: FavorFlav