Broccoli salad

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, broccoli salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Combine broccoli with other veg, grains, pasta and protein for salads bursting with flavour and texture - perfect for lunch or as a side. Add the cooled pickled onion, reserving the pickling liquid. Finely slice the bacon and fry on a medium heat with a small splash of olive oil until crisp and golden, then spoon most of the bacon bits over your broccoli. Any leftover fat in the pan can be used in your salad dressing.

Broccoli salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Broccoli salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook broccoli salad using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Broccoli salad:
  1. Make ready 10 oz broccoli florets
  2. Make ready 1 cup carrots (thinly sliced)
  3. Prepare 4 slice thick cut bacon
  4. Get 2 1⁄2 oz dried cherries
  5. Prepare 1⁄3 cup pecans
  6. Get 1⁄3 red onion (chopped)
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  8. Take 3 1⁄2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  9. Prepare 1 1⁄2 tbsp honey
  10. Prepare 1⁄2 tsp garlic powder
  11. Take 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. In a bowl, combine broccoli, cheese, bacon and onion. In another bowl, whisk mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar. Pour over broccoli mixture and toss to coat.

So that is going to wrap this up for this special food broccoli salad recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m confident you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!