Amish Broccoli Salad
Posted: 01/18/24
Updated: 07/31/24
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This easy Amish broccoli salad recipe (complete with a creamy dressing) is a simple and delicious side dish that’s perfect for family gatherings, potlucks, and summer cookouts. Crisp broccoli, cauliflower, and red onion, tangy mayo and sour cream, a little bacon, and shredded cheese create an incredibly flavorful salad everyone will love!
🥦 What We Love About This Recipe
- It’s great for reunions, holidays, potlucks, summer cookouts, or any time you just need to feed a lot of people. You can easily double or triple the recipe without much extra effort.
- This recipe uses raw vegetables, so other than frying up a bit of bacon, there’s absolutely no cooking involved! Just a little chopping, then some mixing, followed by some chilling – and that last step’s optional.
- Any leftovers can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 4 days, which makes this a terrific make-ahead or meal prep option!
👩🏼🍳 Chef’s Tips
- We’re using cheddar cheese in this recipe, but you can use any kind of shredded cheese you like! Cheddar jack and parmesan are both solid options that go well with the other flavors in this Amish broccoli salad. Feta and goat cheese would also be great!
- This recipe is fully customizable. If you like really creamy vegetables, feel free to add more mayo and sour cream. Likewise, you can cut back on the dressing ingredients and the raw veggies will shine through. Use any kind of cheese you like. Add nuts, seeds, raisins, bell pepper, or cranberries.
- If you’re making this more than a few hours in advance, store the bacon separately from the rest of the salad and fold it in just before serving.
- Not big on sour cream? Try the same amount of full-fat Greek yogurt instead. The flavor will be a little different but still great!
- Use fresh broccoli and cauliflower – not frozen – to get the brightest flavors and the crispest textures. Frozen vegetables just won’t work the same.
- As amazing as it is right away, Amish broccoli salad gets even better after a little time in the refrigerator. If you can, factor in 2 hours of chill time before serving, to let the veggies really soak up the dressing.
🥗 Other Salad Recipes We Love
- Deviled Egg Salad
- Roasted Potato Salad
- Ham Salad
- Carrot Raisin Salad
- Guacamole Salad
- Viral Jennifer Aniston Salad Recipe
- White Bean Salad
- Potato Salad With Raisins
- Paleo Chinese Chicken Salad (Whole30)
- Strawberry Banana Cheesecake Salad
- Perfect Pea Salad
- Chef Salad
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Amish Broccoli Salad
This easy Amish broccoli salad recipe (complete with a creamy dressing) is a simple and delicious side dish that's perfect for family gatherings, potlucks, and summer cookouts.
servings
Ingredients
For the Salad
- ½ pound diced bacon
- 3 ½ cups chopped broccoli florets raw, defrosted if frozen
- 3 ½ cups chopped cauliflower florets raw, defrosted if frozen
- ½ cup chopped red onion
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
For the Salad Dressing
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- ¾ cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon white sugar see Notes
- 2 teaspoons salt more or less to taste
Equipment
- Plate
- Paper towels
- medium skillet
- slotted spoon or spatula
- Small mixing bowl
- Silicone spatula or large wooden spoon
- Large mixing bowl
Instructions
- Line plate with paper towels and set aside.
- Place skillet on stovetop over medium-high heat. When pan is warm, add ½ pound diced bacon. Fry bacon until crispy, then transfer bacon to plate lined with paper towels. Set aside.
- While becon cools, add 1 cup mayonnaise, ¾ cup sour cream, 1 tablespoon white sugar, and 2 teaspoons salt to small mixing bowl. Stir ingredients together until fully incorporated. Taste dressing and add mayo, sour cream, sugar, and/or salt as desired.
- When satisfied with flavor of dressing, add 3 ½ cups chopped broccoli florets and 3 ½ cups chopped cauliflower florets to large mixing bowl. Transfer prepared dressing to mixing bowl and stir ingredients together until florets are well coated.
- Add ½ cup chopped red onion, 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, and cooked bacon to bowl. Fold ingredients into floret mixture until just incorporated.
- Serve salad immediately, or cover bowl with lid (or plastic wrap) and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Notes
- Make it Keto: Instead of sugar, use your favorite granulated sugar substitute, like Swerve. You can also leave out the red onion to shave off an additional 1-2 carbs per serving.
- Make it Vegetarian: Leave out the bacon completely, or use a vegan bacon.
- Make it Vegan: Use vegan versions of bacon, mayo, sour cream, and cheddar cheese.
Nutrition Information
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 443kcal | Protein: 10g | Fat: 41g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Total Carbs: 9g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Net Carbs: 7g | Vitamin C: 58mg | Cholesterol: 57mg | Sodium: 1073mg | Potassium: 371mg | Calcium: 156mg | Iron: 1mg
Number of total servings shown is approximate. Actual number of servings will depend on your preferred portion sizes.
Nutritional values shown are general guidelines and reflect information for 1 serving using the ingredients listed, not including any optional ingredients. Actual macros may vary slightly depending on specific brands and types of ingredients used.
To determine the weight of one serving, prepare the recipe as instructed. Weigh the finished recipe, then divide the weight of the finished recipe (not including the weight of the container the food is in) by the desired number of servings. Result will be the weight of one serving.
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