10 Keto Broccoli Recipes – The best easy low carb friendly recipe ideas – including delicious salad, creamy soup and extra cheesy casserole meals.
Keto Broccoli Recipes
These keto broccoli recipes can be enjoyed as a main dish or delicious side dish with your favorite low carb friendly main course.
Broccoli is a brilliant, nutritious ingredient to include in your ketogenic diet meal plan. It’s low in net carbs, high in grams of fiber and packed full of nutrients including Vitamin A, Folate, Vitamin C and Vitamin K. (Source.)
1. Keto Broccoli Salad
This keto broccoli recipe has only 4 ingredients but makes an easy meal that you can prep ahead of time and have ready and waiting in the fridge for you.
Simply combine together chopped broccoli florets, sour cream, lemon juice and grated cheese such as cheddar cheese, add salt, black pepper and any other seasoning you like as optional extras, then toss together and serve.
Or, pop it in the fridge for a few hours for the flavors to develop and enjoy the broccoli dish for lunch, as a side dish or light dinner.
2. Keto Broccoli Cheese Casserole
This easy keto broccoli casserole recipe has only 4 simple ingredients and creates a dish with a creamy cheese sauce that will even win over picky eaters.
It’s probably the recipe I’ve made most often from my blog and it’s always well received by the whole family.
To make the keto diet friendly recipe, simply combine together chopped broccoli, heavy cream, sour cream and grated cheese together in a baking dish. Toss together then top with more cheese and bake until perfectly golden brown.
You can feel free to add in extra ingredients like cream cheese, chopped red onion or garlic powder for added flavor, but my favorite way is with the 4 core ingredients.
3. Keto Broccoli Cheddar Soup Recipe
A creamy soup makes a speedy, warming meal that you can enjoy straight away or meal prep and then heat a portion for the quickest ever ketogenic diet friendly dinner.
To make the low carb diet meal, heat coconut oil, olive oil or butter in a saucepan and then cook onion, fresh garlic and chopped broccoli. Pour over almond milk, heavy cream and stock to cover and cook until the broccoli has softened.
Blend until creamy then top with plenty of grated cheese such as cheddar cheese or parmesan cheese for added flavor and cheesy goodness.
4. Broccoli and Mushroom Soup
For this soup, broccoli is blended together with flavorful mushrooms, along with plenty of cream and butter to make the most of the great low-carb vegetables.
5. Tuna Casserole
There are so many different ways to enjoy a low carb vegetable casserole with ingredients that are easy to find at a grocery store.
In this instance broccoli is combined together with high protein tuna to create a meal that will be welcome at the dinner table by the entire family.
6. Roasted Broccoli
Broccoli is roasted with flavorful garlic, then plenty of olive oil or avocado oil is drizzled over the top before being baked until golden.
To finish off the low carb friendly side dish, squeeze over lemon juice and sprinkle over pine nuts to create a dish that’s perfect to serve any time of year, and especially with a holiday meal.
7. Broccoli Slaw
This simple recipe is a great alternative to coleslaw and the perfect side dish to balance out a rich or meaty keto meal.
To make the easy keto side dish only has a few basic steps and 4 ingredients – chopped broccoli florets, lemon, extra virgin olive oil and flaked almonds.
Nothing is wasted in this recipe as the stem of the broccoli is grated to create varying textures in the simple slaw.
The ingredients are simply tossed together in a large bowl, then served straight away or popped into the fridge for a few hours to allow for the flavors to develop.
8. Broccoli Pesto
This creamy sauce is a great way to include plenty of greens that are low in grams of net carbs in your diet.
To make the simple recipe, cook broccoli and garlic until easily mashable, then cool and blend, together with basil, lemon juice and zesy, extra virgin olive oil and your seasoning of choice, until smooth and creamy.
9. Cheesy Broccoli Rice
You can make an easy rice substitute by grating a head of broccoli. And, there’s no waste because you can grate the stalk too.
Broccoli rice can then be enjoyed in place of rice in a risotto like this cheesy broccoli rice dish that cooks really quickly and makes the perfect keto side dish or main meal.
10. Broccoli Quiche
This crustless quiche can be enjoy for breakfast, lunch or as the perfect dinner. Simply cook leek, broccoli and your seasoning of choice in a frying pan or skillet until softened and golden, then move it to a baking dish.
Whisk together eggs, heavy cream and grated cheese such as cheddar cheese or mozzarella cheese in a large mixing bowl, then pour it over the cooked broccoli mixture before popping it into the oven to bake until perfectly golden.
Enjoy warm, straight from the oven or cool to room temperature, cut into slices and store in the fridge in an airtight container to grab for a speedy low carb high protein meal, when needed.
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