The Best Broccoli of Your Life (This is most certainly true)

 Ingredients

• 4 to 5 pounds of broccoli, cut into large florets
• 5 Tbs olive oil
• Salt & Pepper
• 4 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced**
• 1/3 cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 lemon (optional)
• 3 Tbs toasted pine nuts (optional)
• 2 Tbs julienned fresh basil (optional)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 425.
2. Toss broccoli pieces with olive oil, salt and pepper and lay out on a cookie sheet
3. Sprinkle garlic cloves and Parmesan cheese.
4. Roast in the oven 20 to 25 minutes, until “crisp-tender and the tips of some of the florets are browned.”
5. When it’s done, take it out of the oven, zest a lemon over the broccoli, squeeze the lemon juice over the broccoli, add 3 Tbs toasted pine nuts and Basil ***

** I just grab a glop out of my giant jar of minced garlic that I have at all times - life's too short

*** I never put the pine nuts and basil, and I usually just sprinkle lemon juice instead of zesting, because who remembers to buy a lemon? Not me.  It's still extremely good

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Original recipe: Amateur Gourmet

Posted by Jasmine