Fresh Roasted Broccolini makes for a delicious side dish. This recipe is gluten free, vegan, and low carb.

Roasted Broccolini is an excellent recipe to try for the first time. You can add other veggies to the baking sheet if you’re only using a small amount. Great additions would be roasted carrots and broccolini, baked asparagus, roasted Brussels sprouts, or even roasted cauliflower.

There’s no wrong way to enjoy this recipe. Enjoy it as is or chopped it up to add to your favorite pasta salad. We cook our broccolini until it’s just slightly browned. Going too far it will get too crunchy and if you go too far on the roasting it could become bitter. If you haven’t seen our post on how to roast vegetables we always follow the rule of giving our vegetables plenty of room to roast. Ensure that it can brown on all sides.

Try making pesto with our roasted broccolini – it has a delicious nutty flavor from roasting

To make broccolini pesto add some fresh garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil. You may not even need to add the garlic or even salt and pepper since you’ve already seasoned it.

Instead of boiling we prefer to steam or roast our vegetables. When you boil the vegetables you are losing essential vitamins, nutrients, and minerals in the water. The water is discarded and so are many of those essentials we want in our food.

what’s the difference between broccoli, broccolini, and broccoli rabe?

Broccoli has thick stalks and large florets. This is the most common type of broccoli and easy to find in the supermarket year round.
Broccolini is a vegetable that is a hybrid of broccoli and Chinese broccoli. It has slender stalks and smaller florets on top. It’s a little milder than regular broccoli, and best served when cooked. We prefer to roast, but you can steam, stir-fry, grilled and sauté for a delicious side dish or meal.
Broccoli rabe also known as rapini can be very bitter. It will mellow some while cooking, but it will still have a bitter taste that is also nutty and a bit earthy. It’s used often in Italian cuisine with lots of garlic! Broccoli rabe has much more leaves than the other two.

how to make roasted broccolini

Set your oven to 400 degrees F.
Clean the broccolini and remove the leaves if desired.
Place the broccolini onto a rimmed baking sheet.
Season with a little garlic, salt, and pepper.
Drizzle with avocado oil, toss, and then arrange on a sheet pan to bake.
Bake for 15 minutes or until desired doneness.
If you want to turn the Roasted Broccolini you can, but this is not necessary.

Can’t find broccolini in your supermarket? It may actually be labeled as broccolette. It’s essentially the same thing, so if you find broccolette, you have found broccolini.

recipe tips:

when making our roasted broccolini recipe you can easily add in other veggies like asparagus, Brussels sprouts or even cauliflower.
use a high smoke point cooking oil as we’re roasting this at 400 degrees.
turn this into a pesto, use fresh lemon juice, garlic, and olive oil in a food processor. you can add pine nuts or even walnuts.
make sure you preheat your oven. don’t put into a cold oven or it won’t get nice and brown from the high heat.