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Super Easy Air Fryer Broccoli Recipe
We can eat crispy broccoli in the air fryer every day. The air fried broccoli always has a wonderful crispy texture and the flavor is outstanding! If you don’t like it crispy, you can definitely cook it for less time. Add extra garlic powder before cooking if you love extra garlic broccoli flavor. And squeeze a little bit of lemon before you eat and the bright lemon flavors are so good! Best of all, this crispy air fryer broccoli recipe will be a favorite for kids. It’s a great way to get them to eat their vegetables!
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If you want extra flavor, the possibilities are endless. Raid your spice pantry and experiment with different spices on the broccoli. We love making an Indian inspired broccoli with ground cumin. Or make a spicy version with some chipotle! Cheese is always a hit too, so adding your favorite cheese like cheddar or parmesan will never be boring! Serve the broccoli with a side of steak or anytime you need a quick vegetable side dish. We love making a big batch of this (cooked in several batches) and everyone goes crazy over the flavor. The hot air really gives this broccoli and nice char and maximum flavor.
How to Cook Broccoli in Air Fryer
Toss broccoli with a little oil, salt and pepper
After first toss/shake you’ll see the broccoli crisp a little
If needed, toss and shake a second time to get everything cooked crisp.
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What are the Best Air Fryers?
There’s so many on the market now. You just need to research and find the ones that fits your needs, capacity and style. We group the basket style air fryers into 2 main size groups: 3-4 qt range & the 5-6 qt. range. Here’s our favorites:
Cosori 3.7 qt. Digital Air Fryer – “That’s a stylish Air Fryer” was said as we unboxed the Cosori. Beyond being stylish, it has cooked great. The basket is not as tall and wider than most in its size group, which is perfect. You’ll have a lot better results in an air fryer with single layered, spread out foods, then with ones piled high and thick.
The non-stick basket style (non-wire base) & smoothness of the basket tray is also great for clean up.
Ninja 4 qt. Digital Air Fryer – Has a great ceramic coated basket, one of the longest lasting we’ve used. Super powerful fan that will often cook recipes even faster than other air fryers. We initially returned our first one because we thought we wouldn’t like the basket style. After reconsidering, we bought another and are super glad we did. We love it’s basket and just a platform insert. One less bulky thing to wash. This is a great air fryer.
Good Larger Air Fryers
Tiluxury 5.8 qt. Digital Air Fryer – It’s a good larger air fryer capable of cooking for larger families, especially when you need to cook more food. It’s great for cooking bigger batches (ie 4 salmon fillets instead of 2 or 2 lbs of fries instead of 1).We like that this Tiluxury 5.8 qt has the non-stick basket (non-wire base). Makes for less sticking for delicate meals (ie baked fish fillets). And we like the digital interface (easier cleaning).
Gourmia 6 qt. Digital Air Fryer – This is quickly becoming one of our favorite larger basket style air fryers. Great basket size, good controls, cooks nice. Clean up is great. It has become one of our kitchen favorites. We’ll often find it as Costco at a great price too!
Air Fryer Crispy Broccoli
Ingredients
- 1 pound (454 g) broccoli , cut into bite sized pieces
- 2 tablespoons (30 ml) oil (approximately)
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) garlic powder
- salt , to taste
- Fresh cracked black pepper , to taste
- Fresh lemon wedges
Instructions
- Add broccoli to large bowl and drizzle evenly with olive oil. Season broccoli with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Air Fry 380°F for 12-15 minutes, flipping and shaking 3 times through cooking. Or cook until crispy. Serve with lemon wedges.
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Rick says
This got my kids to finally eat broccoli. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Mandy says
I was just about the buy an air fryer this weekend! This was SO helpful. Thanks a bunch!
Melissa says
I love discovering new ways to cook/eat broccoli. This one is exceptional. Glad I don’t have to use a lot of oil to get great tasting broccoli.
Rachel says
Thanks for the suggestion! Never thought cooking broccoli would be so easy!
B. Wyant says
I will never cook broccoli any other way. Fabulous!
Best Recipe Box says
Agree! It texture and flavor is amazing.
Tye says
This recipe leaves the broccoli crispy and tasty! Definitely a keeper.
Barbara A OToole says
I followed instructions to a tee, however, my broccoli was NOT crispy! What could I have done wrong?
Thank you.
Best Recipe Box says
Hi Barbara, perhaps you cut them bigger and they just needed more time. Or you can cook them a little hotter at a higher temp next time. Every air fryer cooks a little differently. Let know if you make any changes and what your results are! Thank you.