Broccoli Salad with Sour Cream Dressing Recipe

No extra boring broccoli! This Broccoli Salad is dressed with a beautiful Bitter Cream Dressing that’s tangy, creamy and made WITHOUT mayonnaise. Throw in nuttiness from almonds, freshness from shallots / scallions and some bacon bits, and you’ve got your self a salad that’s so good, it’s value of a meal in itself!

This broccoli recipe is a lighter model of basic Broccoli Salad with a creamy dressing. Do that on the aspect of Baked Pork Chops, sticky Baked Chicken Thighs, marinated beef Steaks or crispy Pan Fried Fish with Lemon Butter Sauce!

Broccoli Salad

I’m protecting this publish brief and candy as a result of it’s an additional recipe, a aspect dish for these Oven Baked Pork Chops I additionally shared at the moment. 🙂

If you consider creamy salad dressings, you mechanically consider mayonnaise. Don’t get me unsuitable – I like my mayonnaise dressings. My good friend’s mom’s Epic Potato Salad is just the very best I’ve ever had – EVER – and you can by no means go skinny on that mayonnaise dressing.

Nevertheless, for on a regular basis functions, I attempt to keep away from utilizing an excessive amount of mayonnaise in dressings.

So this Bitter Cream Dressing is one among my “on a regular basis” creamy dressing. Appears fab, no? 😉

I make all kinds of variations of this Broccoli Salad. This one I’m sharing at the moment is a reasonably basic model that I make actually because I at all times have some form of nuts within the pantry and I at all times have scallions (it’s my Asian genes). Although I have to admit that bacon doesn’t make an look on a regular basis! It’s a deal with. 🙂

Even should you served this with simply broccoli and the dressing, it’s a extremely pretty strategy to change up plain steamed broccoli on the dinner plate. 🙂 Right here it’s as a aspect to the Oven Baked Pork Chops I additionally shared at the moment.

Key tip for making broccoli salads – drain the broccoli effectively! The heads of the broccoli are water catchers and the very last thing you need is to take a chew of broccoli, anticipating creamy dressing solely to search out you find yourself with a mouthful of watery dressing! So depart the broccoli within the colander to empty effectively, shaking often to get it as dry as potential.

NO MORE BORING BROCCOLI! Who’s with me??!

Broccoli Salad with Sour Cream Dressing Recipe

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Serves: 4 Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 3 minutes 3 minutes

Nutrition facts: 180 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

• 1 large or 2 small heads of broccoli
• 150 g / 5 oz lean bacon, chopped
• 1/4 cup flaked almonds, or other nuts of choice
• 2 shallots / scallions, or red onion, finely chopped
• 1/3 cup sour cream (I use low fat)
• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 tsp garlic powder, or 1/2 small garlic clove, minced
• 2 tsp apple cider vinegar, or white wine vinegar
• 2 – 3 tbsp milk, plus more to adjust consistency
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 3/4 tsp white sugar
• Salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Mix the Sour Cream Dressing ingredients together in a bowl. Adjust salt and pepper to taste. and set aside for 20 minutes for the flavours to develop. Use milk to adjust dressing to desired consistency.
2. Break / cut broccoli into smallish florets. Blanch in boiling water or steam until just cooked – it should still be tender but crisp. Drain in a colander, run under tap water to help cool faster and leave to cool. Shake around in colander occasionally to loosen water caught in the floret heads (watery broccoli salad not nice!).
3. Toast almonds in non stick skillet over medium high heat until golden. Remove into bowl.
4. Cook bacon in skillet over high heat until golden. Drain on paper towels.
5. Place salad ingredients in a bowl. Drizzle over dressing and toss to combine. Transfer to serving bowl.
6. I served this with Oven Baked Pork Chops.

Notes

1. I prefer making this with garlic powder because it’s milder and smoother than fresh garlic. But fresh garlic works just fine too, just let the dressing rest for at least 30 minutes.
2. The sour cream can be substituted with yoghurt but you need to use a full fat creamy yoghurt otherwise I find the dressing is too tangy. The alternative is to add more olive oil to get more creaminess into the dressing.
3. Nutrition per serving.