Broccoli Salad

Scrumptious Broccoli Salad made with bacon, sunflower seeds, purple onion, and goat cheese combined with a creamy Greek yogurt-mayo sauce. So good!! 

Broccoli Salad

Right here’s a good way to get a cup of veggies into your meal, serve this Broccoli Salad as a facet with a sandwich, burger, or your favourite protein. It’s excellent as a facet dish for a summer season BBQ or potluck or a tasty lunch choice. It’s straightforward to customise to your liking – Attempt including in some chopped nuts, raisins, or different dried fruit for further taste and texture. In case you’re a broccoli lover and wish extra broccoli facet dish concepts, do this Broccoli and Orzo, Broccoli Cheese Soup or this Sesame Orange Broccoli.

This mild and simple Broccoli Salad is from the brand new Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep cookbook by Lisa Bryan, which provides over 100 make-ahead recipes that may be frozen or repurposed into completely different meals. I polled my viewers on Instagram to see which recipe they wished me to share from her guide, and this one was the winner. I’m so glad as a result of I actually loved it!! Her recipe has this as 4 servings, however I made it 8 1 cup servings which is ideal for a facet dish. If you wish to have it as a important you possibly can double the portion.

A More healthy Broccoli Salad

This wholesome salad recipe makes use of many nutritious components:

• Broccoli is a wonderful supply of nutritional vitamins and minerals, together with vitamin C, potassium, and folate.
• Sunflower seeds are a very good supply of wholesome fat, protein, and vitamins, like vitamin E and selenium.
• Goat cheese is a lower-fat various to different forms of cheese and is an efficient supply of protein and calcium.
• The Greek yogurt within the dressing boosts the protein content material and provides the salad a creamy texture with out including an excessive amount of fats. 

Elements:

• Bacon: Use eight slices of your favourite bacon.
• Broccoli: Minimize a head of broccoli into bite-sized florets.
• Crimson Onion: Cube a 3rd cup of purple onion.
• Dried Cranberries: Purchase unsweetened dried cranberries.
• Uncooked Sunflower Seeds: Toasted sunflower seeds will work in case you don’t have uncooked.
• Goat Cheese: Crumble 1 / 4 cup of goat cheese over the salad.
• Dressing: Greek yogurt and mayonnaise (mild or common)

Methods to Make Broccoli Salad

• Bacon: Prepare dinner the bacon within the skillet or place the bacon on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 to twenty minutes at 400°F.
• Salad: Mix broccoli, onion, cranberries, seeds, and cheese.
• Dressing: Stir the mayo and yogurt in a small bowl. Pour the dressing over the broccoli combination, and add the crumbled bacon.

What to Serve with Broccoli Salad

This salad recipe would go nice with any virtually protein, like burgers, pork chops, rooster, or steak. I additionally prefer it by itself for a straightforward lunch.

How lengthy does broccoli salad final within the fridge?

Broccoli salad will last as long as 4 days an hermetic container within the fridge.

Variations:

• Broccoli: In case you desire to blanch your broccoli, you possibly can by boiling it for about 1 minute. Drain it, rinse it with chilly water to cease it from overcooking, and dry it earlier than mixing the broccoli with the opposite components.
• Fruit: Swap dried cranberries for raisins, dried dates, or diced apples.
• Vegetarian Broccoli Salad: Omit the bacon.
• Seeds: Substitute sunflower seeds with pumpkin seeds, walnuts, or pecans.
• Cheese: Sub goat cheese with feta or shredded cheddar.
• Dairy Free: omit the goat cheese and use dairy free yogurt.

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