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This easy Broccoli Salad is a party or potluck favorite. It’s dressed in a creamy dressing and it’s made with bits of salty bacon, tangy red onion, sweet craisins, and crunchy sunflower seeds. This salad is so delicious and the dressing pairs wonderfully with the salad.
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This healthy broccoli salad is easy enough to make for a weekend dinner, yet also perfect to bring to a family gathering or party. This recipe serves about 12-20 people depending on your appetite. I usually make it the day before and store it and the dressing separately in the fridge. This saves me a lot of time on the day when I serve it (especially if it’s a big holiday like Thanksgiving). Some of my other favorite side dishes to bring to a potluck are this Harvest Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad, Creamy Scalloped Potatoes, Cowboy Caviar, and this Roasted Butternut Squash with Bacon.
Delicious Broccoli Salad Recipe
It’s so fresh, flavorful and easy to make. The real star of the salad is the creamy sweet and tangy dressing. It is the absolute perfect finishing touch to this salad. This healthy broccoli salad with bacon is definitely a family favorite!
You will not regret making this salad and I know that it will become a favorite at your house as well!
How To Make Broccoli Salad?
- Place broccoli pieces in a large bowl. Add chopped red onion, crumbled bacon, craisins, and sunflower seeds
- In a small bowl, mix mayo, red wine vinegar, and sugar (or sweetener). Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and stir well.
- Add creamy dressing to broccoli salad and toss gently.
Dressing For Broccoli Salad With Bacon
This broccoli salad dressing is very easy to make and made with only 3 ingredients (not counting salt, and pepper) – mayo, red wine vinegar and sugar (or sweetener of choice) to balance out the acidity of the vinegar and fatty taste of the mayo. It’s the perfect creamy salad dressing for a broccoli bacon salad. You can also make the broccoli salad recipe without mayo by substituting the mayo with sour cream.
Storage Suggestions
This salad will last in the fridge for about 3-4 days. I usually keep the dressing and the salad separately and mix them before I serve it – whether at home or somewhere else. If you have already added the dressing to the salad and want to store leftover salad, it can last for about 1-2 days. After 1 day though, it can get a little soggy and the dressing pools at the bottom of the bowl, and you will need to mix it well.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, the broccoli cranberry salad can be made ahead of time. You can store it in the refrigerator and just add the dressing before you serve it.
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Broccoli Salad
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Ingredients
- 8 cups broccoli florets, chopped
- ½ cup red onion, finely chopped
- 16 oz bacon, cooked and crumbled
- ½ cup craisins
- ½ cup shelled sunflower seeds
Creamy Dressing
- 1 cup mayo
- 2 Tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 3 Tablespoon sugar, (honey, or sweetener of choice)
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Place broccoli pieces in a large bowl. Add chopped red onion, crumbled bacon, craisins, and sunflower seeds
- In a small bowl, mix mayo, red wine vinegar, and sugar (or sweetener). Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and stir well.
- Add creamy dressing to broccoli salad and toss gently.
Is this a whole30 recipe? I cannot eat dairy while on whole 30.
Hi Kerry, there is no dairy in the recipe. You will have to omit the sweetener to make it Whole30 compliant. For mayo, I use the one from Primal Kitchen – you can find my affiliate link when you click each ingredient in the recipe card.
Wondering instead of bacon could I use salmon as I am a vegetarian? I would love to try the salad.
Yes, absolutely! It would be great with salmon!
This sounds so yummy!
Love me a broccoli salad!
This looks delicious! Totally nerdy blogging question, do the headings in your post help with SEO?
Broccoli salad is always one of my favorites. Yours looks absolutely scrumptious!
Wow this salad looks delicious! I love how easy it is to make!
Yum such a lovely sounding salad! I never make broccoli salad so will have to try your version, very healthy and must be filling too.
My mom used to make something like this for summer picnics! She used raisins instead of craisins but same concept! She called it California Broccoli Salad.
You have a slight issue with your nutritional information on this recipe ..!
4387 calories per serving?
Lol, thanks for catching that, Megan! It didn’t calculate properly because I forgot to enter the serving size. It’s all fixed now. ๐
Thanks!