This Roasted Broccoli Salad is EVERYTHING! Bright lemon, crisped-up bacon, tangy feta, and it’s all built around a big bowl of roasted broccoli. A true hero of a meal!
Liz’s Roasted Broccoli Salad
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I made this with red/sweet yellow onion, added green beans from the farmer’s market and crumbled lemon pepper chevre, also from the market. Bacon took longer to crisp so I pulled the veggies off early. Amazing! Love it, will definitely make again – Thank you
Kris
Here’s the thing I want you to know about this roasted broccoli salad:
It’s quite possibly my favorite way I’ve ever eaten broccoli in my life.
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The ingredients here are humble and low-key, but together they make a FLAVOR BANG:
- shallot
- bacon
- feta
- lemon
- broccoli
- sourdough
Throw in some olive oil, salt, pepper, and you are ready to embark on a beautiful roasted broccoli journey.
This Has Everything You Could Want In a Salad
The flavors in this are just everything I want in all my meals ever: tangy, crunchy, slightly bitter and bright from the lemon zest, salty from the crisped-up bacon, and all built around a big bowl of roasted broccoli, which, in and of itself is a true hero.
Reasons I love this as an SOS meal:
- It’s incredibly delicious. Good food, good mood. Instant lift.
- The actual hands-on prep for this is so minimal. Basically everything happens on a sheet pan, leaving you plenty of time to… not be in the kitchen.
- This is super customizable. For example, if you wanted to really bulk it up you could add some rotisserie chicken or some more roasted veggies.
- It actually keeps really nicely as leftovers. The bread is the one tricky thing that can get soggy, so just keep those croutons nice and dry in a separate container. But truly, this salad can be eaten and enjoyed hot, cold, room temp – I know you’re going to question it but I have even eaten these leftovers for breakfast. Riding that SOS train all the way to the very last stop.
I don’t want you to be jealous, but as I write this, there is a sheet pan of broccoli, bacon, and shallots in my oven.
My house smells amazing, I will be eating this soon, and IT IS A GLORIOUS DAY.
Roasted Broccoli Salad: FAQs
I’m all out of bacon! What can I sub?
Pancetta would be delicious! Just dice it up into tiny cubes – or lots of grocery stores sell pancetta pre-cubed (SOS win!). Then fry it up in a pan for a few minutes and toss it on the salad.
How long do leftovers stay good?
If you can store the broccoli and other ingredients separate from the sourdough croutons, this will stay well for about 3-5 days in a sealed container in the fridge. If the croutons are mixed with the dressing and other ingredients, they might break down quicker and get soggy the next day. But, I mean, I’ve eaten it as slightly soggy leftovers, and it’s still very delicious. 🙂
This looks great! Is this a full meal?
This salad is incredibly filling! It has bread, bacon, cheese, and roasted broccoli (not to mention a nice coating of olive oil) but if you’d like to pair something else with it, these chicken meatballs or even a quick store-bought rotisserie chicken would be great.
Can I use frozen broccoli?
Absolutely! The main thing to note is that the frozen broccoli option takes a little longer to cook in the oven. So that your other ingredients don’t overcook, you can either remove the shallots from the pan after 20-30 minutes or start the broccoli first and add the shallots to the pan 10-15 minutes later.
Can you use an air fryer for this recipe?
For the broccoli, definitely! I haven’t tested everything else (and would be hard to fit it all in an air fryer like mine!). But this recipe for air fryer broccoli would be excellent here.
Liz’s Roasted Broccoli Salad
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 6-ish servings 1x
Description
This Roasted Broccoli Salad is EVERYTHING! Bright lemon, crisped-up bacon, tangy feta, and it’s all built around a big bowl of roasted broccoli. A true hero of a meal!
Ingredients
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Roasted Broccoli
- 2 bags of broccoli florets (24 ounces total)
- olive oil
- salt
The Extras
- 12 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
- 1–2 shallots, thinly sliced
- 4 ounces crumbled feta
- 3–4 thick slices sourdough, cut into cubes
- zest of 2 lemons
- lemon juice to taste
- 1 clove garlic, grated
- salt, pepper, olive oil to finish
Instructions
- Roast broccoli, bacon, and shallot: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place broccoli on a large sheet pan, on one side. Place bacon and shallots on the other side. (If you’re running out of room you can separate this onto two sheet pans.) Drizzle broccoli with a little olive oil, and sprinkle with salt. Roast everything for 20-30 minutes, until things are nice and browned. Transfer broccoli, bacon, and shallots to a bowl.
- Make sourdough croutons: Turn the oven temp down to 375 degrees. Drain off excess bacon fat if needed, and then add sourdough to the bacon pan and toss to coat in the bacon fat. Add more olive oil or butter as needed to get the croutons evenly coated. Bake for 5-7 minutes until crispy and lightly browned.
- Toss and serve: Toss broccoli, bacon, and shallot with feta (add it while everything is hot so it melts a little bit! so yum), lemon zest and lemon juice, and sourdough croutons. Finish with a clove of freshly grated garlic, if you can handle the bite, which I most definitely can! Also: salt, pepper, and olive oil to taste. You can eat this hot or cold or room temp, and it will be so delicious all of the above ways.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Salad
- Method: Roast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: broccoli recipe, broccoli salad, salad recipe
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- Sheet Pan Garlic Ginger Chicken and Broccoli (perfect for quick and delicious meal prep)
- 5-Ingredient Green Curry (packed with lots of veggies and a delicious green curry sauce)
One More Thing!
This recipe is part of our completely delicious broccoli recipes page. Check it out!
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August 20, 2021
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Whoa! This is a keeper. I’ll forever be making this one!
I’m not a fan of recipes that have so many “to taste” ingredients, but I pulled it off and it was delicious! The bacon took longer to crisp so I had to pull the broccoli and keep baking. I’m giving this a 4/5, not because of the taste, but I feel like the recipe and directions could be better.
Made this week w/o croutons, since we’re low carb here. It was so good I turned around and made it again! The feta is the most surprising element. It really pulls everything together. I also used half a yellow onion instead of a shallot. Thanks!
Absolute flavor winner. (Works with sausage, or even chickpeas if you are bacon-averse.)
Late to the game but I made this last night and it was so delicious it’s now permanently on my list of side dishes.
Just made this for the first time. Added too much lemon juice. Will make it again, but next time I’ll start with a tablespoon of lemon juice and add more to taste. Loved the broccoli, the bacon (who doesn’t love bacon?) and feta together!
This salad was absolutely AMAZING! I love the depth of flavors with the salty bacon, savory feta and lemon. So, so good…my husband said, “don’t you just want to eat this every night?” Thank you for this!
Delicious and works well with winter dishes or summer bbqs.
This was amazing! Thank you so much for sharing! I did omit the lemon juice as I tend not to like the acidity too much, but this was perfect. I can’t wait to make this again.
Do you leave the florets whole or
Chop them up? Thank you?
Shucks. Wish I had looked at the pictures before going to the store. Bags of broccoli—I just figured frozen-never knew broccoli came in bags?? Not sure this will ROAST. Trying to thaw/dry before putting in oven so that it doesn’t steam instead.
My 8 year old loved it!!! I loved it! Usually the broccoli sits in our fridge until it fades into nothingness and I trash it. Now I’m thinking next time I’ll have to double the recipe! Thank you
Yay for a kid win!
I love this recipe, have made it for years! Question though — when I do the shallots as written, thinly sliced and roasted on a pan with the bacon, they get burned to a crisp and are unusable. How else should I do them? Just keep an eye on them and remove them from the pan much earlier?
Absolutely divine, already looking forward to the next time I can have this salad! Excellent recipe ❤️
This was amazing! Couldn’t stop eating it. Can’t wait to eat the leftovers
This sounds lovely and I’m going to make it but my sons don’t like feta, is there another cheese you think could work as well?
Goat cheese or parmesan would work!
Surprisingly delicious for the number of ingredients! Will make again.
I had a bag of broccoli that was going to go bad, so I looked up “broccoli recipes” on Pinterest and this was the first one I looked at. I halved the recipe and left out the croutons, but holy cow, this is SO GOOD!!!! All of the different flavors go together so well. I did have to leave the bacon in longer – next time I think I’ll give it a 10 min head start before adding the veggies.
Can this be made ahead of time and re-heated in the microwave?? Going to a party tomorrow and need to bring a side dish/vegetable. This sounds perfect! Please let me know asap!! Thank you!
Quick question. Can this be made ahead of time and re-heated? Attending a dinner party and I’m supposed to bring the vegetable side dish! Please let me know.
Broccoli is a great source of a healthy food to help anyone lose weight. 🙂
Everything I imagined and more! Thank you for these amazing recipes that are simple yet delicious.
Made this tonight, knew I’d love it but wasn’t sure how my husband would feel and we both definitely are excited to have it again! This is excellent and is certainly filling enough to count as a meal. We added some hot honey drizzled on top and that was amazing on this.
Loved this! All the flavors went together perfectly! I halved the recipe so it was just about 2 servings and had it with the chicken meatballs (also on this site). Only change was using goat cheese instead of feta because I had it on hand and I threw in some sliced red onion too to use it up. Took closer to 30 mins for the bacon to be fully cooked. Will definitely be making it again.
This recipe is a winner. The light lemon juice only dressing just brings out the flavors, not heavy. And what isn’t good that has bacon? Thank you!