Best Broccoli And Bacon Salad Recipes

BACON BROCCOLI SALAD WITH RAISINS AND SUNFLOWER SEEDS

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and crumble.
• Toss bacon, broccoli, raisins, sunflower seeds, and onion together in a large bowl.
• Whisk mayonnaise, sugar, sweetener, and vinegar in another bowl until smooth. Pour over broccoli mixture and toss to coat. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

BROCCOLI SALAD WITH RED GRAPES, BACON, AND SUNFLOWER SEEDS

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels. Crumble 7 slices of bacon; mix with sunflower seeds in a resealable bag.
• Combine broccoli, onion, and grapes in a bowl.
• Crumble the remaining bacon slice. Whisk mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, and black pepper together in a bowl; fold in the 1 slice crumbled bacon. Pour dressing over broccoli mixture; toss to coat evenly. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for flavors to blend, about 2 hours.
• Sprinkle bacon-sunflower seed mixture over salad before serving; mix well.

BACON AND BROCCOLI SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 6 ingredients. For dressing, in a small bowl, whisk mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar. Pour over broccoli mixture; toss to coat.

MARTIE'S BROCCOLI SALAD WITH BACON AND CHEESE

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until crisp, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels. Let cool enough to handle, about 5 minutes. Crumble into a small bowl.
• Cut broccoli into florets, dice up the stems, and put all into a large bowl. Mix in onion. Add raisins and Cheddar cheese. Stir in crumbled bacon.
• Combine mayonnaise, sugar, and vinegar in a small bowl. Pour over broccoli mixture. Mix until completely covered. Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving.

BROCCOLI-AND-BACON SALAD

Steps:

• Toss broccoli, bacon, red onion, raisins, cashews, and water chestnuts together in a large bowl.
• Whisk mayonnaise, sugar, and vinegar together until smooth; pour over salad and toss to coat.
• Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until the dressing sets, at least 4 hours.

BROCCOLI SALAD WITH CHEDDAR AND WARM BACON VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of generously salted (use about 1/2 cup kosher salt) water to a boil. Set up an ice bath next to the stove and generously salt (about 1/4 cup kosher salt) that water as well.
• Cut the broccoli stems from the heads; slice the florets into small pieces, each about 1-inch long. Peel the stems with a peeler and cut each stem in half lengthwise, then slice into 1/2-inch-thick half-moons. Add broccoli to the boiling water and blanch for 30 seconds; transfer to the ice water to shock the broccoli and stop the cooking. Drain broccoli in a colander, then set aside (still in the colander) to drain completely.
• In a large dry skillet, toast pecans over medium heat until they smell nutty, about 1 minute; remove pecans and set aside. Return skillet to medium heat and add bacon and oil. Cook, stirring occasionally, until bacon has rendered its fat and is crispy, about 10 minutes. Turn heat to low and whisk in mustard and vinegar. Add green onions and pecans and season generously with black pepper.
• In a large bowl, combine broccoli and grapes. Pour the contents of the skillet into the bowl and toss to combine; season to taste with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the cheddar and toss right before serving.

TORTELLINI, BROCCOLI AND BACON SALAD

Steps:

• Cook and drain tortellini as directed on package. Rinse with cold water; drain.
• In very large (4-quart) bowl, mix tortellini, broccoli, tomatoes, chives and dressing. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour to blend flavors.
• Just before serving, stir in bacon. Sprinkle with nuts.

BROCCOLI, BACON AND CHEESE SALAD

Steps:

• Mix up your dressing ingredients and set aside.
• Mix all the dry salad ingredients (not the bacon) in a large salad bowl.
• Pour the dressing over the other salad ingredients, mix well.
• Mix in the bacon just before serving the salad.

BROCCOLI, BACON, AND SUNFLOWER SEED SALAD

Steps:

• While slowly cooking bacon to extra crisp, soak raisins in HOT tap water. Drain bacon on paper towels. Drain raisins. Pour extra fat out of frying pan.
• In same pan (keeping the fond (browned bits), toast sunflower seeds lightly for one minute.
• Make dressing by combining mayo, sugar, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Add crumbled bacon, sunflower seeds, and raisins.
• Trim florettes from top of rinsed, raw broccoli - toss into dressing. (You COULD choose to nuke or steam broccoli, but would loose much of the crunch). Use veg peeler to remove tough part of broccoli stem, then dice and add to salad. Toss, cover, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

BROCCOLI, TORTELLINI, AND BACON SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare the tortellini according to package directions; rinse with cold water; drain.
• In a large bowl, mix the tortellini, broccoli, tomatoes, chives, and dressing.
• Cover and refrigerate 1-2 hours.
• Right before ready to serve, add bacon and sunflower seeds; gently stir to combine.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Serve cold.

BROCCOLI, BACON AND ONION SALAD

Steps:

• Cook broccoli in medium pot of boiling salted water until crisp-tender, about 4 minutes. Drain well. Cook bacon in heavy large skillet over medium heat until brown and crisp. Transfer bacon to paper towels and drain. Crumble bacon. Whisk oil and vinegar in medium bowl to blend. Mix in onion. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (Broccoli, bacon and dressing can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let stand separately at room temperature.)
• Combine broccoli and bacon in large bowl. Toss with enough dressing to coat. Garnish with sunflower seeds. Pass remaining dressing separately.

CREAMY BACON AND BROCCOLI SALAD

Steps:

• Mix first 2 ingredients in large bowl.
• Add remaining ingredients; toss to coat.
• Refrigerate 1 hour.

MARIE'S BROCCOLI, BACON, CRANBERRY AND ALMOND SALAD

Steps:

• Whisk together first 4 ingredients for dressing and set aside.
• Combine broccoli, cranberries and black pepper. (Note: I used 5 broccoli crowns - would not enter this way).
• Add dressing and stir well.
• Refrigerate to let flavors develop.
• At serving time add all but a few tablespoons of bacon and all of almonds to broccoli mixture.
• Stir together and garnish with crumbled bacon.

BROCCOLI AND BACON SALAD

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels. Tear bacon into small pieces.
• Combine broccoli, bacon, sunflower seeds, and green onions in a bowl.
• Whisk mayonnaise, vinegar, and sugar together in a bowl; pour over broccoli mixture and toss to coat.

MAKE-AHEAD BROCCOLI SALAD WITH BACON AND CHEESE

Steps:

• Toss broccoli, cooked bacon, Cheddar cheese, and onion together in a resealable container. Mix mayonnaise, sugar, and cider vinegar together in a separate container until well blended. Refrigerate both until chilled, 30 minutes or up to 1 week.
• Just before serving, add dressing to the salad and toss to coat.

KIDNEY BEANS, BROCCOLI AND BACON SALAD

Steps:

• Steam the broccoli until just tender, then rinse until cold water to stop cooking. It should be bright green, not cooked grey! Drain well on paper towels.
• Rinse the kidney beans under cold running water, drain well and add to the broccoli in a large mixing bowl.
• Slice the onion about 1/8" thick then cut the rings into segments 1/2" to 1" or so.
• Cook the bacon until crisp then drain well and coarsely chop.
• Add the bacon and onion to the broccoli and kidney beans, mixing well while moistening with the ranch dressing. Don't add so much ranch dressing that it becomes soupy.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

SWEET BROCCOLI SALAD WITH BACON, SUNFLOWER SEEDS AND GOLDEN RAISINS

Steps:

• 1. Salad: Chop broccoli florettes into small pieces. Reserve a 1/4 cup bacon. Toss rest together in medium-sized bowl.
• 2. Sauce: In small bowl, whisk ingredients til sugar is dissolved, syrupy and smooth. Pour over broccoli mixture and fold til all is coated. Stir before serving and garnish top with reserved bacon.

BACON AND BROCCOLI SALAD

Steps:

• Add the bacon to a large skillet and cook over medium-low heat, flipping it as needed, until all the fat has rendered, about 8 minutes. Transfer the bacon to a paper towel-lined plate. Let cool, then crumble.
• Meanwhile, stir together the broccoli, scallions, onions and grapes in a large bowl.
• Whisk together the mayonnaise, sugar, milk and vinegar in a medium bowl. Taste and season the dressing with salt and pepper.
• Add the dressing to the salad, toss to combine and then stir in the mozzarella, almonds and crumbled bacon. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve, ideally, up to 1 day in advance.

FRESH BROCCOLI SALAD WITH APPLE AND BACON

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the broccoli, apple, onion and bacon. In a small bowl, combine salad dressing and sugar. Pour over broccoli mixture; toss to coat.

BROCCOLI SALAD WITH BACON AND CRAISINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl use a whisk to combine mayo, sugar, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
• Add vegetables and miss thoroughly.
• You can substitute regular raisins for golden raisins, but the golden color is a nice contrast to the Craisins.