These roasted artichokes are pressure cooked with lots of garlic and seasoned with lemon and tamari, then roasted to crispy, tender perfection. A perfect vegetable side dish recipe that your family will love. Make two easy dipping sauces with the extra marinade!
Whether you’re making these artichokes in the Foodi, an Instant Pot, or right on the grill, they’ll be a family favorite soon! I love Ninja Foodi artichokes because you can cook them and then roast them using the same appliance.
If you’ve seen artichokes in your grocery store and not known what the heck to do with that strange looking vegetable, I’ve got a few ideas here for you.
Roasted artichokes are one of my family’s favorite recipes, and we make them often in the summer. They’re easy to grill or cook in the pressure cooker, and the seasonings you can use are endless!
Ingredients:
- large artichokes
- coconut aminos (or a reduced sodium soy sauce substitute like tamari or soy sauce)
- lemon juice
- garlic
- olive oil
- water or vegetable broth
There are three steps to making these air fryer artichokes:
- Preparing
- Steaming: Can be done in a rice cooker, steamer, or in an Instant Pot or pressure cooker
- Baking/browning: Can be done in a Ninja Foodi or air fryer, on the grill, or in the oven
How to prepare and steam artichokes:
- Cut off the bottom stem of your artichoke, close to the bottom. Next, slice the tips of the leaves off.
- Prepare the marinade.
- Pull the leaves of the artichoke apart and use a spoon or brush to drip some of the marinade into the artichoke leaves.
- Place the artichokes stem side down in the Ninja Foodi, Instant Pot, or other electric pressure cooker.
- Add a cup of water or vegetable broth along with some garlic to the pot.
- Set the pressure cooker for 20 minutes on High Pressure. Make sure the pressure release valve is set to the sealing position.
- When the cooking time is up, immediately release the steam by carefully moving the sealing valve to Venting. Hot steam will immediately begin coming out of the vent, so watch your hands. Note: Naturally releasing the steam will cook these for longer, which could result in them falling apart when you remove them. This usually isn’t an issue for larger artichokes, but if this is your first time making them I’d stick with the quick release.
- Once the steam is released, open the lid and give them a minute to cool. Remove the artichokes from the pot carefully.
How to bake/brown artichokes (an optional step):
- Using a very sharp knife, slice the artichokes in half, starting at the stem. If you use a dull knife to do this, it won’t cut evenly through the thick leaves and it’ll pull some of the leaves out of the artichoke. Try not to saw back and forth to cut the artichoke.
- The center of the artichoke is not eaten–you’ll be removing the fuzzy part right under the heart as well as the tough purple leaves. Those leaves don’t hold any of the “meat,” so we remove them to make a perfect spot to hold more garlic ;)
- You could eat your artichokes at this point. The rest of the recipe is a bonus for overachievers who love to receive compliments from their family and friends. ;)
- Another option is to add more marinade to your artichokes right now and stick them in the fridge for a day or two. The flavors will be amazing.
- Your third option is to continue on with these artichokes and get them on your dinner table right now.
- Place the artichokes halves cut side up in the air fryer basket. Or in your oven. Or on your grill.
- Drizzle the remaining marinade (with 1/2 cup left out for your dip) in between the leaves in the center of the artichoke and fill up the centers of the artichokes with extra marinade.
- You can stack the artichoke halves if you need to, just shift them around about halfway through the browning process.
- Set the Foodi or air fryer to bake/roast for five minutes. After three minutes, check on and move around the artichokes so they all get crisp. You’re looking for them to be lightly charred, not super crispy.
- Your cook time could change a little depending on how many artichokes you’re cooking, the size of your Foodi or air fryer, and how large your artichokes are.
Recipe Tips:
- I use a melon baller or spoon to remove the fuzzy part, and the leaves usually pull right out.
- Before I owned an electric pressure cooker, I would often steam these in a rice cooker or in a large pot on the stove, then marinate overnight, and use the grill to brown them. The Foodi/Instant Pot artichokes are so much easier because you can cook them right in the pot and then immediately crisp them up using the bake/roast or air fryer feature.
Oven roasted artichokes
If you’re using an oven, preheat the oven to 350º and cook the artichokes in a shallow baking dish for 10-15 minutes, watching for them to brown.
How to make grilled artichokes
If you’re making these artichokes on the grill, set it to medium high or 350º and allow them to cook both cut side up (first) and then cut side down for 5-10 minutes.
How to eat a roasted artichoke:
The entire artichoke is not edible–this is an important fact.
You’re going to pull an artichoke leaf off and scrape your teeth against the “meat” on the underside of the leaf. The artichoke leaves aren’t edible–just the meat underneath is.
When you’ve pulled all of the leaves off, you’re left with the stem and the artichoke heart, which are both edible.
How to make an easy dipping sauce for your artichokes:
Take 4 teaspoons of melted butter or mayo and add 1 teaspoon of the marinade. Mix well.
Special Diet Information:
If you’re watching your waistline, I’d recommend using vegetable broth in your marinade instead of olive oil.
21 Day Fix/Ultimate Portion Fix: 1/2 artichoke counts as approximately 1 green container. The marinade is free except for the oil, and you can easily substitute that for vegetable broth!
A quick note that tamari, like all soy sauce, is pretty high in sodium. Just be mindful of that when marinating these delicious artichokes.
Weight Watchers: Using vegetable broth in the marinade instead of oil, one serving of this recipe is 1 Blue Plan Points | 1 Green Plan Points | 1 Purple Plan Points. If you’d rather use oil, the recipe is 6 points on all myWW plans.
2022/2023 points: 2 points per serving when using fat free vegetable broth instead of oil.
Trim Healthy Mama: This is a THM-S recipe. Keep your serving size to one medium or 1/2 large artichoke.
More delicious and healthy recipes:
- You might love these artichokes as a side for a delicious homemade rotisserie chicken
- These are a delicious side when eating these avocado stuffed chicken breast
- Brown Rice Risotto
- Copycat Chipotle Chicken
- Healthy Mac and Cheese with Greek yogurt
Delicious Roasted Artichokes with Dipping Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 artichokes large
- ¼ cup coconut aminos low sodium soy sauce or low sodium tamari
- 1 lemon juiced
- 4 tbsp garlic
- ¼ cup olive oil or broth
- 1 cup water or vegetable broth
Instructions
Prepare artichokes:
- Cut off the bottom stem of the artichoke.
- Cut the sharp tips of the leaves off of the artichoke. If you need some instruction on doing this, take a peek at the video in this post.
Steam artichokes:
- Prepare the marinade by adding all ingredients into a small bowl. You can cut calories by marinating in vegetable broth instead of olive oil.
- Pull the leaves of the artichoke apart and use a spoon or brush to drip some of the marinade into the artichoke.
- Place the artichokes stem side down in the Ninja Foodi, Instant Pot, or other electric pressure cooker. Add a cup of water or vegetable broth along with 1/2 tsp garlic to the pot.
- Set the pressure cooker for 20 minutes on high pressure and when it's done, quick release the steam. You can also steam these right on the stove for 20 minutes.
- Once the steam is released, open the lid and give them a minute to cool. Remove the artichokes from the pot carefully.
- Using a very sharp knife, slice the artichokes in half, starting at the stem. If you use a dull knife to do this, it won't cut evenly through the thick leaves and it'll pull some leaves out of the artichoke.
- I use a melon baller or spoon to remove the fuzzy part, and the purple leaves usually pull right out.
- Start adding marinade in between the leaves under the artichoke.
- Place the artichoke halves cut side up into the air fryer basket of the Foodi (or if you’re not using a pressure cooker, this is when you can bake them or grill them).
- Drizzle the marinade in between the leaves in the center of the artichoke and fill up the centers of the artichokes with the extra marinade. Set a few teaspoons of the marinade aside if you’d like to make an easy dipping sauce.
Roast artichokes:
- Set the Foodi to bake/roast for five minutes. After three minutes, check on and move your artichokes around so they all cook evenly and get crisp. You're looking for them to be lightly charred, not super crispy.
- Your cook time could change depending on how many artichoke halves you're roasting, the size of your Foodi, and how big your artichokes are.
- If using a grill or oven, brown the artichokes for 10-15 minutes.
Such an easy recipe and perfect for summer as there’s no need to turn on the oven!
Sooooo good and so easy – thanks for the recipe!
What temperature do you put the air fryer on and how long would they go if you’re doing that method? Thank you!
Hi Mels! You’ll want to cook/steam the artichokes first, then air fry them to crisp them up at 350 for about 10 minutes.
BEST EVER! Even my kids who thought they didn’t like artichokes LOVED these!
Quick and beautiful! This is my kind of side dish!
Simply stated, THESE WERE DELISH! So glad I made them. I’ve only used coconut aminos for one other recipe and was excited to try it here. It provides such a nice flavor. I used the vegetable broth as the fluid, and olive oil in the marinade. These were so good I did not even need the dipping sauce, which is unusual for this type of artichoke dish. This recipe is a keeper (as is) and will shared!