The 40 Best Broccoli & Friends Recipes We Know

We’re crowning broccoli (pun intended) the MVP of green vegetables—in springtime and all the time. You’ve seen it take the stage as an attention-grabbing side dish; it often mingles with cheddar for creamy soups and crunchy casseroles; and it tends to make its way into all manner of pasta dishes, both hot and cold.

You’ll notice that a few of these recipes call for relatives of broccoli: broccolini (aka baby broccoli or Chinese broccoli, which has a sweeter flavor and thinner form than regular broccoli) and broccoli rabe (aka rapini, which is a bitter cousin to broccoli in the mustard family). These are definitely not the same as each other, or the same as traditional broccoli! But they’re excellent in their own right.

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