1Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Parker Feierbach
Sweet potatoes are one of the most versatile ingredients in the kitchen: They’re amazing boiled, baked, sautéed, and fried (we love you, sweet potato fries). One of the easiest and most useful ways to cook sweet potatoes is to roast them. For perfect roasted sweet potatoes every time, abide by our simple rules.
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2Roasted Red Potatoes
Parker Feierbach
The tricks to roasting these potatoes are cooking at a high temp, making sure they’re cut side down, and taking extra care to not overcrowd your pan. If this sounds like a lot, do it ahead of time! Simply give ’em a few minutes in the oven day-of to get them hot and crispy again.
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3Roasted Parsnips
Parker Feierbach
Looking for a simple side dish to make this Thanksgiving? Parsnips don’t get nearly the attention they deserve, but that ends now. Roasting them makes them slightly sweet and perfectly tender for a quick side dish you might just love more than the holiday turkey or ham.
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4Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Ethan Calabrese
One of the best ways to prepare Brussels sprouts is to roast them. It’s super-easy: Toss the sprouts in a little olive oil, spread them on a baking sheet, and throw them in the oven to hang out for 30 minutes. The oven’s high dry heat will bring out all those delicious nutty flavors, rendering the sprouts soft and tender in the middle and leaving the outer leaves crispy and delicious.
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5Roasted Butternut Squash
Ethan Calabrese6Roasted Cauliflower
ANDREW BUI
Cauliflower is one of our favorites to roast because, flavor-wise, it’s very much a blank canvas. You can keep it simple with just salt and pepper or go nuts with a custom spice blend. Our recipe adds just a touch of color and zesty flavor with Old Bay seasoning, but feel free to get creative.
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7Roasted Garlic
Parker Feierbach
Insanely creamy and with a punch of umami that will instantly upgrade any meal, you can add roasted garlic to almost anything savory—fall soups, mashed potatoes, salad dressings, hummus… Or you can simply spread some on toast, like the most flavorful butter EVER.
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8Garlic Butter Mushrooms
Parker Feierbach
These are INSANELY delicious! If you can’t find cremini mushrooms, look for baby bellas or button mushrooms—they’re essentially the same thing and will work just as well here.
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9Whole Roasted Cabbage
Joel Goldberg
This gorgeous, whole-roasted stunner is the perfect holiday substitute for vegetarians. It’s savory, sweet, and salty on the outside and super-tender on the inside. Topped with lots of silky mushroom gravy, we doubt anyone at your table will be missing meat.
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10Roasted Beets
Parker Feierbach
Not only are beets naturally gorgeous, they’re also full of the good stuff like potassium, iron, and fiber. They couldn’t be easier to prepare. Though they take longer to cook in the oven than most vegetables, there’s almost no prep, which leaves you with more time to work on getting the rest of dinner ready.
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11Garlic Smashed Potatoes
ETHAN CALABRESE
Unlike mashed potatoes where you’re going for a creamy consistency, smashed potatoes get tossed with some olive oil and herbs, then smashed into thin patties and roasted until crispy. This recipe is all about the technique, but the flavor profile is infinitely adaptable. You can top them with bacon and cheddar, ranch seasoning, or even BRIE.
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12Oven-Roasted Carrots
ETHAN CALABRESE
This simple recipe is the most versatile side dish, and it’s impossible to mess up. Toss carrots with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and spread in an even layer on a large sheet tray. (Feel free to throw in any of your favorite herbs or spices as well!)
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13Holiday Roasted Vegetables
Parker Feierbach 14Delicata Squash
Parker feierbach
Delicata squash is a winter squash that doesn’t get enough attention. Its small size makes it much easier to handle than other squashes, like butternut or pumpkin, and it cooks much faster. When roasted, the squash gets creamy and sweet, and we can’t get over how cute the flower-shaped slices are.
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15Roasted Broccolini
Parker Feierbach
Roasting vegetables makes them the best version of themselves, and roasted broccolini is no exception. Abide by our top tips for the best broccolini ever—clean your stalks, don’t overcrowd the baking sheet, and use a HOT (425°) oven.
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16Balsamic Glazed Roasted Cauliflower
Parker Feierbach
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17Roasted Turnips
PHOTO: ERIK BERNSTEIN; FOOD STYLING: MAKINZE GORE
Turnips, much like radishes and parsnips, turn irresistibly sweet when roasted. This recipe is for purple-top turnips, which tend to be larger and thicker-skinned than smaller Japanese varieties. If your turnips are small and sweet, you can forgo peeling off the skin and leave them in larger pieces if you like.
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18Kabocha Squash
Kabocha squash is an unsung hero of the autumn harvest. Sure, people love apples, pumpkin, and butternut squash, but kabocha has a more complex, nutty flavor than its gourd cousins. This makes it a perfect match for the caramelized umami-sweet flavor of the deceptively simple maple-soy brown butter here.
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19Roasted Baby Carrots
Parker Feierbach
Sweet baby carrots are the perfect match for this tangy balsamic glaze. Fancy enough for a holiday meal, but easy enough for a weeknight dinner, this recipe is endlessly riffable and guaranteed to deliver crisp-tender carrots every time. Be sure to give your veggies plenty of room on your baking sheet for maximum caramelization.
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20Acorn Squash
Emily Hlavac Green
Acorn squash can be dressed up either savory or sweet and served as individual halves for the cutest presentation. After roasting, the skin on the squash will be soft and edible, so there’s no need to worry about peeling it first (but if you’re not a fan, the flesh separates easily from the skin after roasting too).
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