This Amish Broccoli Salad, full of bacon, broccoli, raisins, and sunflower seeds, is a great picnic salad that is both tasty and healthy. This salad not only contains healthy carbs, but it also has protein and good fats. If you are looking for a delicious salad recipe, this is the one.
Our Amish broccoli salad recipe is simply divine – a perfect combination of deliciousness and nutrition! With the crunchy veggies, savory bacon, and creamy dressing, your taste buds will dance with delight. Whether as a side dish or a main course, this dish is sure to satisfy your cravings.
If you are looking for some additional recipe ideas for an upcoming picnic or BBQ, my Crispy Chicken Tenders are a delicious choice. My WW Banana Pudding is smooth, cool, and the perfect way to top off a great dinner.
❤Why You’ll Love This
- It’s creamy, dreamy, with a sweet and tangy dressing.
- You can (and should) make it in advance
- It’s transportable
- Basic and easy to find ingredients
- Kid-friendly
🥘Ingredients
- Salt and Black pepper
- Sugar or Sugar Substitute
- White vinegar
- Mayonnaise or Greek Yogurt
- Broccoli
- Raisins
- Onion
- Bacon or Turkey bacon
- Sunflower seeds
🔪Instructions
At the bottom of the post, you will have complete step-by-step instructions.
🧾Substitutions
- You can use sugar or Stevia as a replacement for the sugar.
- You may want to decrease/increase the amount of vinegar and mayonnaise, depending on your personal taste preference.
- If you don’t have raisins, try dried cranberries, grapes or dates instead.
- When I change the mayo for fat free Greek yogurt. I change the pork bacon to turkey bacon and reduce the raisins and the sunflower seeds. This brings the salad down to 3 points on my plan.
📖Variations
- No mayo – make sure to look at our Bacon Broccoli Salad with no Mayo.
- Sweeter – to make this a bit more sweet, add in 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- Spicy – add 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne pepper.
- Feel free to add nuts such as almonds or cashews.
- Add apple. The kids love this Broccoli Apple Salad.
- Cheese is another great addition to this recipe.
🍽Equipment
- Bowl
- Spoon
- Knife
🍶Storage
Refrigerator: Store the leftovers in an airtight container. Refrigerate until ready to serve. It should stay fresh for up to four days.
Freezer: Not recommended.
🔎Top Tips
- Use fresh ingredients. You want the broccoli to have a nice bite to it
- Make the recipe ahead. It always tastes better as the ingredients have a chance to blend together.
- Make a big batch. Ours disappears fast.
FAQ
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Amish Broccoli Salad Recipe
Ingredients
For the dressing:
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup sugar WW use Stevia
- 2 tablespoon white vinegar
- 1 cup mayonnaise WW use Greek Yogurt
In the salad:
- 1 head broccoli cut into bite sized pieces
- 1/2 cup raisins WW use 1/4 cup
- 1/4- 1/2 cup chopped onion depending on how much raw onion you prefer.
- 8 slices cooked bacon chopped WW onuse Turkey Bac
- sunflower seeds
Directions
- To make the dressing for they salad, mix sugar, vinegar, mayonnaise, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, add in the broccoli. Add in the onions, raisins, sunflower seeds and the bacon.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and mix.
- While the salad is ready immediately, it always tastes better when it is made ahead and sit in the refrigerator for 4 hours or overnight.
Nutrition
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mel
This looks absolutely delicious!1 Thanks for sharing!
Randa @ The Bewitchin' Kitchen
This is similar to how my mom makes it, but she also adds grapes.
Dawn Lopez
What a great recipe, unique and tasty. Thanks so much for sharing, my hubs would love this!
Dolores Brister
I can’t believe that you ruined that perfectly yummy salad with MAYO! #blech!!
The rest of your salad is YUMMY looking!
Debi
I normally HATE mayo. But the combo of the sugar and vinegar with it, it awesome
Amanda
I have never heard of broccoli salad until now! It definitely yummy and looks worth trying!
Motherhood on the Rocks
I love broccoli salad! Your recipe looks great too!
Rita O'Neal
Honestly, I wasn’t sure about it at first then I saw bacon. I’m all for it now 🙂 It actually sounds pretty good. I love broccoli.
Amber Killmon
Broccoli is my favorite vegetable, so this salad is right up my alley!
Mary
Best if dressing is mixed in just prior to serving otherwise the broccoli is soggy not crisp.. just my opinion
Denise Lusby
I make mine with mayo, sugar, vinegar, almonds, and cheese, just thinking I bet chopped up apples would be good
Ida Pletz
I used nonfat Greek yogurt and taste yummy can’t wait to eat it
Chris
❤️❤️❤️I had this salad many years ago for the first time. It is wonderful!!!
Carol A Dunstan
I have been making this for years! However, I do not put the raisins or seeds in the salad, but I do put a few chopped hard boiled eggs! And it is the perfect salad to make the day before you need it!