This Air Fryer Broccoli is both tender and crisped at the same time. So easy and done it 10 minutes! We’ve been making it every night and my kids go wild for it.
The Only Broccoli I Make Now.
We honestly make this almost every night right now.
The magic of this specific air fryer broccoli is the method: it gets both tender and crisp at the same time!
Air fryer broccoli can be dry and awkwardly chewy to eat. NOT ANYMORE BABY! Here are the game changers:
A quick massage! Just like you do with kale. You’ll even see the color of the broccoli change. You’re waking it up!
A bit of water! The water creates a little steam effect while the broccoli roasts so it stays tender and fluffed and becomes crispy! And I am abnormally excited about this whole thing!
We throw this air fryer broccoli at every single meal we can. We’ve had it with Marry Me Chicken, Date Night Rigatoni, Tomato Soup and grilled cheese, and dipped in this A+ Gochujang Sauce. And it’s the perfect side for the staple fam-faves: Air Fryer Chicken, Air Fryer Tofu, and Air Fryer Salmon.
FYI for the flavor hogs out there (it me): I tested this with so many extras. I tried a soy sauce version, fresh and granulated garlic, other dry spices, lemon, butter, and even a parmesan panko treatment. But in a rare minimalist moment, I decided that I really loved it best in its simple form: salted, tender, and crisped.
It gets such savory, deep flavor from the roasting process that I genuinely feel it doesn’t need anything else. Go ahead and finish with parm, lemon, or a sauce – but IMHO, the pre-roast doesn’t need anything extra!
I haven’t been this excited about a vegetable in a long time. It’s giving weirdo.
I hope you love it.
P.S. Do not miss this list of all my favorite, most popular easy dinners!