Easy Broccoli Cheese Bites (2024)

These broccoli bites are the perfect quick and easy appetizers, full of veggie and cheesy goodness. Broccoli cheese bites are everything you love about a broccoli cheese casserole all in one tiny bite. These broccoli bites are perfect for a weekly dinner side or served at a brunch!

The Best Broccoli Cheese Bites

I host a lot of parties and am always looking for party appetizers that taste good both warm and at room temperature.

These broccoli bites are a bite-sized version of that Ritz broccoli casserole I mentioned earlier, and they’re great for serving at any party!

We tested out ten different versions of broccoli cheese bites to get to this recipe, and it’s the best variation we could come up with! It’s like a bite-sized version of this broccoli cheese chicken casserole, minus the chicken!

These also make great finger foods for picky eaters and a great option for getting some veggies in for the whole family! They’re always a big hit with kids and adults, and a fun way to serve healthy foods without just doing a standard veggie tray.

They’re full of broccoli and cheese without tasting like you’re eating broccoli and cheese. They’re a great way to hide veggies in something that tastes delicious!

Ingredients

• Broccoli – you’ll need three cups of fresh broccoli florets that are cooked and chopped up into small bite-sized pieces. You can either use raw broccoli that you cut and cook yourself or something like broccoli wockly that’s already cut up for you and ready to cook. I do not recommend using frozen broccoli because it adds too much liquid to the broccoli bites.
• Ritz Crackers – I used about 30 crumbled up crackers (one sleeve) to make these but if you want a little less, you can skip adding the cracker crumbles on top of the broccoli cheese bites. Use leftover crackers in these Ritz cracker cookies!
• Salt – while it’s not pictured above, you’ll also need to add a little salt to pull all of the flavors together nicely. Salt is the easiest way to really bring out the natural flavors of food.
• Cheddar cheese – you can either buy store-bought shredded cheese or shred it by hand, just make sure it’s thinly shredded so it’ll mix with the other ingredients nicely. You could also make these with a combination of 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese and 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, but I prefer the classic cheddar cheese combo.

Making these broccoli cheddar bitesis so easy, seriously. This broccoli appetizer will take you about 20 minutes tops!

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and spray a muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. You could also use a mini muffin tin if you want to make mini bites, I just prefer the full-size ones.
2. While your oven is preheating, cook the broccoli. You can either steam it (here’s a great tutorial on how to steam broccoli if you don’t know how) or use a micro-steamer like this to make the process faster!
3. Throw the pieces of broccoli in a food processor along with 25 of the Ritz crackers, the cheese, the egg, and salt. Pulse until everything is well combined into one broccoli mixture.

4. Once the egg mixture is ready, spoon the mixture loosely into muffin tins until they’re about 3/4 full either using a large spoon or cookie scoop. Do not press down on the mixture or it’ll end up more dry than you want.

5. Once all of the muffin tins are filled, sprinkle the remaining crumbled Ritz crackers on top before baking.

6. Bake in muffin cups for 12-15 minutes and you have yourself bite-sized bites of broccoli and cheese goodness. The cooking time may vary depending on how quickly your oven bakes and the actual size of the broccoli bites so watch them starting around 10 minutes.

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7. Let cool for just a minute then use a small silicone spatula to slide those bites out! So much cuter than a casserole.

These broccoli bites were perfect for my Super Bowl party! They’d also go great paired as a great side dish with this almond chicken or even this balsamic chicken – they’re great way to make eating veggies fun for both younger and older kids! Or just stack them on a plate and serve as is!

FAQs

If these broccoli cheese bites aren’t quite what you’re looking for, here are some more simple appetizers!

• Bacon brie bites – bacon and brie cheese combines together in these delicious bite-sized snacks!
• Cheese bomb – bacon and cheese stuffed inside a biscuit turns into a delicious bomb of flavor!
• Bisquick sausage balls – five-ingredient sausage balls with tons of yummy flavor!
• Pizza twist recipe – all the flavors of your favorite pizza twisted into a grab and go snack!
• Pigs in a blanket with cheese – classic pigs in a blanket gets a cheesy upgraded into this favorite!