Healthy Broccoli Casserole Recipe (2024)

Quick and easy broccoli casserole recipe. Serve as a holiday side dish or an all year round vegetarian dinner meal.

🧅 Ingredients

• Broccoli — fresh and cut into florets
• Salt Water — to blanch broccoli (briefly cook).
• Eggs
• Table Cream
• Black Pepper ground and Salt
• Italian Seasoning
• Dijon Mustard — optional, but adds a nice flavor to the casserole dish.
• Shredded Cheese — simple Mozzarella will do, but for more flavor, I recommend Swiss Raclette, Emmental, or Gruyère cheese.
• Olive Oil — if you can spare a dime, get a cold pressed olive oil. All those other labels for extra virgin olive oil are super misleading. The cold-pressed olive oil label is your best option.

🔪 How to make it?

To make our own easy and healthier broccoli casserole, you will need a casserole dish and a pan to blanch the broccoli. Here is a quick overview to help you get going.

Step 1

Keep a pot with salt water to boil.

Place your clean broccoli floret chunks into the cooking water and keep a timer to 3 minutes to blanch the vegetables.

When done, take the broccoli through cold running water as this will retain the green color too.

Get rid of excess water and keep your broccoli aside.

Step 2

Add to a mixing bowl the eggs, cream, black pepper, Italian seasoning, cheese, and Dijon mustard.

Combine all the ingredients.

Step 3

Place broccoli florets into your baking dish.

Pour the egg-cream mixture over the broccoli in the dish and spread out as well as possible.

Drizzle some olive oil over the dish and bake in the oven.

🍴 Serving

The easy broccoli casserole recipe makes a lovely side dish with roasted turkey or chicken.

That means you can serve this vegetable casserole dish for Thanksgiving, or on other holidays such as Easter, with other amazing side dish meals.

OR you can simply enjoy your casserole as a stand-alone vegetarian dish.

I even make it in the summer when I'm craving a lighter vegetable loaded meal.

🥣 Variations

You can elevate your broccoli dish to turn it into a wholesome dinner meal.

Here is how:

• with leftover rotisserie chicken or Thanksgiving ham — Just add the meat shredded or cut into pieces over the broccoli before pouring the egg-cream mix over the uncooked dish.
• with bacon — fried bacon chopped into small pieces
• with zucchini or other squash
• with rice — a layer of cooked leftover rice over the broccoli
• with a different seasoning instead of Italian seasoning — you can use only oregano, Herb de Provence or my I like it also with spaghetti seasoning.

🍱 Freezing

Prepare the dish as per recipe instructions in a foil-lined casserole dish.

Place into your freezer and allow your casserole to freeze completely.

When hard frozen, take it out (it's easier because we lined it with foil) and wrap the dish completely in foil.

Take your casserole dish back to the freezer, where it can be stored for up to 4 months (I don't recommend any longer).

To thaw your broccoli cheese casserole, place it frozen into the fridge for about 24 hours before you intend to bake it.

Make sure your casserole is properly thawed or else it might turn out soggy after the baking process.

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