Healthy Broccoli Casserole Recipe

You are going to love this broccoli casserole if you are looking for a healthier quick and easy recipe!

I show you in my recipe video and in the process shots further below how to make broccoli cheese casserole from scratch.

I was inspired by my zucchini casserole and broccoli cheese soup when I came up with this broccoli casserole recipe.

Brace yourself and eat guilt-free!

This healthier vegetable casserole with broccoli is loaded with nutritious elements, real ingredients, and it packs flavors.

Jump to:

• 🔪 How to make it?
• 🥦 Choice of Broccoli
• 🍲 Why blanch Broccoli?
• 🍴 Serving
• 🥣 Variations
• 🍱 Freezing
• 💭 FAQs
• 👁️ More Casserole Recipes
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

🔪 How to make it?

To make our own easy and healthier broccoli casserole, you will need a casserole dish and a pot to blanch the broccoli.

Find the full printable recipe card with ingredients and instructions details and video at the bottom of this post.

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 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.

🥦 Choice of Broccoli

For my easy broccoli recipe, I recommend that you use fresh broccoli because it will save you waiting time.

A garden fresh casserole with broccoli would be the ideal thing, but you can, of course, use grocery broccoli too to prepare this tasty dish.

You can also use frozen broccoli to make the broccoli and cheese casserole recipe.

Frozen vegetables will need to thaw first or else they will be mushy and boring, so leave them out, defrost completely, and use them just like the fresh florets.

🍲 Why blanch Broccoli?

If you chose to use fresh broccoli, you will need to blanch the florets.

Blanching means boiling your vegetables for a brief moment and then taking them through cold water to stop the cooking process.

Blanching kind of precooks the broccoli before the florets are placed into the oven, where they are cooked through completely.

I choose to blanch my broccoli in this recipe because they don't need to cook through as they will be getting soft in the oven.

Besides, blanching helps in retaining vitamins and minerals and this is another reason why this is a healthy broccoli casserole.

AND blanching will quicken the progress of your dish preparation because blanching is done within 3 minutes.

🍴 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 with other amazing side dish meals.

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

I even make it in summer when I'm craving more vegetables!

🥣 Variations

You can pimp 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 to small piece
• 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 versatile 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.

💭 FAQs

👁️ More Casserole Recipes

• Non-Traditional Green Bean Casserole
• Potato Egg Casserole
• Green Bean Quinoa Casserole by laurenkellynutrition.com

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