Broccoli salad

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, broccoli salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Combine broccoli with other veg, grains, pasta and protein for salads bursting with flavour and texture - perfect for lunch or as a side. Any leftover fat in the pan can be used in your salad dressing. Pour it into a mixing bowl, then peel and finely grate in the garlic. Mix the broccoli, carrots, cranberries and cashews in a large bowl.

Broccoli salad is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Broccoli salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have broccoli salad using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

Add a pinch of salt and bring to the boil. In the bottom of a large bowl, whisk together the olive oil, mayo, apple cider vinegar, mustard, maple syrup, garlic, and salt. Add the broccoli, onions, and cranberries and toss to coat. Place the almonds and pepitas on the baking sheet, toss with the tamari, maple syrup, and smoked paprika and spread into a thin layer.

Steps 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 the broccoli, onions, and cranberries and toss to coat. Place the almonds and pepitas on the baking sheet, toss with the tamari, maple syrup, and smoked paprika and spread into a thin layer. Whisk until the mixture is well blended. Pour the dressing over the salad and stir until all of the broccoli is lightly coated in dressing. Broccoli Salad is a quick summer salad chock full of fresh crisp broccoli, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, and bacon bits.

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