At our favorite Italian restaurant in our tiny town, there is a side dish that is outstanding.  Liv and my Mama LOVE it.  I can eat this as my meal, it’s that good.  I knew that I desperately needed to know how to make this at home.  Here’s how you do it:

Start with a couple of tablespoons of butter.

Add in enough broccoli for you or for 10 people.  This recipe is very forgiving, you can add more butter and broccoli for more people, or keep it all to yourself.

Add salt and pepper generously.  Saute until everything smells like heaven and the broccoli is beginning to turn bright green.

Now is the time to add in a heaping teaspoon of my favorite minced garlic.  You can use fresh, but I always keep the jarred stuff on hand.  It makes it so, so easy!  I add the garlic near the very end, because I do NOT want it to burn.

Just before you pull everything off the heat, add a tablespoon of lemon juice over all of that goodness.  You can squeeze half of a lemon over this or do like I do and keep a bottle in the fridge and use a capful!

Scrumptious food.  Make this!  It’s so, so good.

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Here’s the printable – this recipe is VERY easy to double, triple or quadruple!  Make more than you think you’ll want, you’ll be glad you did.