Chicken Salad Chick Broccoli Salad Recipe

The Chicken Salad Chick Broccoli Salad Recipe is an easy and quick recipe that can be served as a side dish for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This salad is too good and everyone should try it at least once. Bursting with flavor and loaded with health benefits, this recipe is a perfect addition to any table. This recipe can easily be tried at home once you have all the necessary ingredients which are easily available at the supermarket or grocery stores.

Ingredients Chicken Salad Chick Broccoli Salad Recipe:

To make this delightful and delicious dish, you don’t need any extraordinary ingredients. In fact, you just need some simple ingredients.

Mains:

To prepare the broccoli salad, the main ingredients you will need are broccoli florets, some shredded cheese, and bacon.

• Fresh broccoli florets: For this recipe, you will need about 3 to 4 cups of broccoli florets. Now there are two choices you have here. First, you can buy fresh broccoli from the market, wash it thoroughly, and then cut it into smaller pieces using a sharp knife. Another option is to buy already cut-up and washed bags of broccoli florets from the stores.
• Cheese: You don’t want to miss this ingredient if you want your salad to be creamy and cheesy. For this, it is highly recommended to use cheddar and mozzarella cheese as they taste amazing when used together. Both these cheese has to be grated. Grated cheese that is already available in market can never be close to the fresh one.
• Bacon: ½ cup of crumbled bacon is enough to add the texture of crispiness. Now, for the bacon, you can fry or make your own bacon and crumble it in a way but most grocery stores carry pre-made bacon. And I don’t mean bacon-flavored bits or anything like that. I mean actual bacon that’s already been made and crumbled for you.

Dressing:

As far as dressing is concerned, mayonnaise, sugar, apple cider vinegar, salt, and pepper can be used.

• Mayo: For the broccoli salad dressing, we’re going to start with ¾ cup of mayonnaise. The Duke’s Mayo can give a real taste to the salad when mixed with broccoli, however, olive oil mayo for this makes it a little bit lighter, but you can just use regular mayo.
• Yogurt: We also need ¼ cup of sour cream or Greek yogurt. Although it is a replacement for mayo in case you run out of mayo. But adding Greek yogurt only makes it more creamy.
• Sugar: This is simply to add a bit of sweetness in the salad.
• Apple cider vinegar: This gives a sour and bitter taste to the salad.
• Salt and Pepper: ¼ teaspoon of salt and ¼ teaspoon of sugar is required only.

TOOLS & EQUIPMENTS:

For this recipe, you would need the following kitchen tools:

• Knife
• Cutting board
• Whisk
• Spoon
• Large and small bowls

Instructions to Follow:

STEP 1: The bulk of our salad is raw broccoli.

You can begin the preparation by taking fresh broccoli. Make sure you cut off the stem and cut the broccoli into bite-sized pieces. Now I know that some of you might want to blanch your broccoli before making this salad and if you want to do that, that’s completely fine.

STEP 2:

Once you have all the florets, you can simply add them to a large bowl.

STEP 3:

The only item that requires any cooking in this broccoli salad is the bacon. For instance, you can do this by placing eight or more slices of bacon on a parchment-lined baking tray. Whenever you cook a whole package of bacon, you should always bake it in the oven rather than use the stove top as it is much easier and cleaner. Now, cook the bacon for up to 15 minutes or until it’s crispy, and while that’s cooking, you can do the rest of the salad.

STEP 4:

After 15-20 mins, bacon should be done so remove that from the oven and transfer the bacon to a paper towel to dry. And remember that the bacon will continue to crisp up as it dries.

STEP 5:

After this, you can start grating cheese with a grater or you can shred the cheese using a knife. Add almost one cup of sharp cheddar and mozzarella cheese. When picking out cheddar cheese, make sure that it stays sharp and always look for the thickest shred of cheese that you can find. I don’t recommend using finely shredded cheese for this recipe. Add the grated or shredded cheese into the bowl.

STEP 6:

At this point, the bacon should be cooled and a little more crunchy so go ahead and crumble that into the salad.

Once you’re done with the mains, let’s prepare the dressing.

STEP 7:

This can be prepared using a separate smaller bowl. We take a cup of mayonnaise of our preference with a half cup of yogurt along with vinegar, salt and pepper, and some sugar into the bowl and whisk together. You should keep mixing it until the texture is smooth.

STEP 8: Now, top the mixed dressing on the salad and combine everything together for a delicious broccoli salad.

The broccoli salad is ready to serve!

EXTRAS:

Before we serve our broccoli salad, I would like to share some optional ingredients that you can use to make it stand out in taste as well as the overall presentation.

• ½ cup chopped red onion

Directions: This step can be done after you’re finished cutting broccoli. You can take one medium-sized red onion, chop it, and add it directly to the bowl. This is just optional. Those who don’t like it can skip it.

• ½ cup raisins
• ½ cup sunflower seeds

Directions: These mentioned ingredients can be added to the salad while adding salt, pepper, and sugar.

Dos and Don’ts:

When it comes to salad people are mostly conscious about the ingredients and their quantities. The reason for this is that salads are supposed to be the healthy meal of the day. So, there are no hard and fast rules to these ingredients. For instance, one might think:

• Should the broccoli be blanched or not? No, it is not necessary to sterilize or boil the broccoli or florets. But it is a must to wash it thoroughly and rinse out the water.
• How to cook bacon; fry or bake? Here also, it doesn’t matter, if you fry the bacon or bake it. The only thing matters is not to overdo it. If you fry it for long, it can turn hard once it dries out. So, you want to avoid that.
• Will the salad taste good without Extras? Yes, these extra things are mentioned only for the purpose of adding different flavor but one can easily do without it too.

SERVING TIPS:

After the salad is ready, don’t serve it immediately. Just follow these tips:

• Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least and Hour to allow the flavors to meld.
• Before serving, give the salad a final toss by adding some sunflower seeds at top and bacon tips if desired.

Nutritious Value:

The broccoli salad is not only a delicious salad but it also has great nutritional benefits. Altogether, the salad has around 103 calories.

• Broccoli: It contains such minerals and vitamins that help fight against cancer and improve heart health.
• Protein: 4.2 grams
• Carbohydrates: 10 grams
• Sugar: 2.5 grams
• Bacon: It contains vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B4 and B12.
• Protein: 12 grams
• Carbohydrates: 0.6 grams
• Sugars: 0 grams
• Cheese: Cheddar cheese helps repair muscles and also helps in bone growth. It also help maintain a healthy metabolism.
• Calories: 404
• Total fat: 33 grams
• Protein: 23 grams
• Carbohydrates: 3.1 grams
• Sugar: 0.5 grams
• Mozzarella cheese is also healthy as it is made from cow milk.
• Calories: 85 grams
• Carbohydrates: 1 gram
• Protein: 6 grams
• Fat: 6 grams

Dressing Nutritional Value:

• Yogurt is very useful for a good gut and vaginal infections. It is also highly encouraged to eat yogurt the first thing in the morning.
• Calories: 61 grams
• Fat: 3.3 grams
• Carbohydrates: 4.7 grams
• Protein: 3.5 grams

Hint:

Before trying this salad at home, it is recommended to the followers to make sure they are not allergic to any of the mentioned ingredients. Additionally, you can consult your doctor for the nutritional benefits of this salad as the figures written above are taken from internet.