Broccoli salad

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, broccoli salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Drain well, run under cold water to stop the cooking, and. Cut the broccoli into bite-size pieces and cut the onion into thin bite-size slices. Combine with the bacon, raisins, your favorite nuts and mix well. Throw some raisins and sunflower kernels in your broccoli salad for a crunchy and delicious spin on the classic.

Broccoli salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Broccoli salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have broccoli salad using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Broccoli salad:
  1. Take 10 oz broccoli florets
  2. Make ready 1 cup carrots (thinly sliced)
  3. Get 4 slice thick cut bacon
  4. Make ready 2 1⁄2 oz dried cherries
  5. Make ready 1⁄3 cup pecans
  6. Get 1⁄3 red onion (chopped)
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  8. Get 3 1⁄2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  9. Get 1 1⁄2 tbsp honey
  10. Make ready 1⁄2 tsp garlic powder
  11. Prepare 1⁄2 tsp chicken bullion granules

Remove tough stalks at end and wash broccoli thoroughly. Cut flowerets and stems into bite-size pieces. Add crumbled bacon, onion, raisins, and cheese. Ours uses a combination of canola mayonnaise and Greek yogurt to keep the calories in check.

Instructions to make Broccoli salad:
  1. Cook bacon in a frying pan. Once its done, let it cool/absorb the oil on a paper towel. Then cut it into small pieces.
  2. While bacon is cooking, coarsely chop up onion and carrot (ideally you want to use a vegetable peeler or cheese grater, but I used a knife and it was fine, just took longer).
  3. Discard most of the bacon grease, saving enough for a thin layer to cover the bottom of the pan.
  4. Add the broccoli to the greased pan on high for about 4 minutes or until the broccoli is slightly cooked and has just started getting darker in color.
  5. Add the broccoli, carrots, onion, pecans, cherries, and bacon pieces to a large bowl.
  6. Whisk the EVOO, apple cider vinegar, garlic powder, honey, and chicken bullion until well mixed and you think it tastes good (you can easily make it sweeter/saltier/more bitter by altering the ingredients)
  7. Add the vinegarette to the broccoli mixture and toss until well combined.

Add crumbled bacon, onion, raisins, and cheese. Ours uses a combination of canola mayonnaise and Greek yogurt to keep the calories in check. Broccoli Salad is a quick summer salad chock full of fresh crisp broccoli, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, and bacon bits. It's all tossed in a creamy homemade dressing. Since it's best made ahead of time (and everyone raves over this recipe), it is the perfect potluck dish, great for any gathering or bbq.

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