This Easy Broccoli Salad has always been one of my favorite salads. It is really easy to make! Broccoli Salad is a combination of broccoli, bacon, red onion, craisins, and sunflower seeds. It’s topped with a creamy homemade dressing. This salad is perfect as a side dish at your summer time BBQ or at your next shower! So easy, healthy and delicious! Make it with me!
Easy Broccoli Salad
This Easy Broccoli Salad recipe is great to feed a crowd! It is also easy to cut down or double the recipe as needed. The thing with this salad that I find is every recipe makes the mayo dressing look thick and heavy.
It almost looks caked on and it tastes like mayo. In my recipe, I tried to keep the dressing lighter, while staying true to the traditional broccoli salad recipe.
How I Improvised This Recipe
Funny story about making this recipe the first time. I did not have any crasins to put in the salad, I had forgotten them from the store. Rather than driving down the hill and to the store again, I chose to improvise.
I found a trail mix in the pantry that had crasins mixed into it. Yes, exactly what you are thinking, I dumped out the trail mix and picked out the craisins to use in the salad. They were pretty salty from the trail mix, so I did not salt the rest of the recipe.
I felt like I was on an episode of cut throat kitchen. I loved it.
What You’ll Need to Make this Salad
fresh broccoli
red onion
bacon crisped and crumbled
Craisins
sunflower seeds
What You’ll Need to Make the Dressing
mayo
Plain greek yogurt
white sugar
red wine vinegar
salt and peper
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Easy Broccoli Salad
Broccoli salad is a combination of broccoli, bacon, red onion, cranberries, and sunflower seeds. It’s topped with a creamy mayonnaise yogurt dressing. So easy, healthy and delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh broccoli (chopped into small florets)
- 1 red onion (chopped)
- 8 strips bacon (cooked crisp and crumbled)
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 3/4 cup Craisins
For the Dressing
- 1/2 cup light mayo
- 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine broccoli, onion, bacon, sunflower seeds, and Craisins.
- Toss in the salad dressing and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until serving.
Salad dressing:
- Mix the mayonnaise, red wine vinegar, sugar, and salt together. Stir until the sugar begins to dissolve.
- Pour dressing over broccoli salad and stir to coat.
Notes
*Allowing this recipe to set up in the fridge for 30+ minutes is recommended but not required. The flavors will incorporate better if you do.
