Summer is just on the horizon, making now the perfect time to gather together all your favorite recipes along with some newly discovered ones.
Those summer entertaining events have a way of sneaking up on us, and before you know it, we are scrambling through our personal recipes, cookbooks, magazines, and the internet for a dish that is quick to make, tastes great, and looks good enough to impress even the pickiest of eaters.
This broccoli dish is a personal favorite of mine, this salad is quick to make, easy to carry in the car, and it will always, yes always get you compliments!
Broccoli Salad is my go to dish to make if I have to create something at the last minute, because I usually have all of the ingredients in the house. I hope you get the chance to make the salad this summer; you too will enjoy it as much as I do.
This recipe calls for ½ cup of raisins It is really delicious when you add ½ cup of dried cranberries. My favorite is the Ocean Spray dried cranberries. If you add both raisins and cranberries together, you give this salad a truly impressive appearance. Get creative and make it your own.
Ingredients:
- 6 cups of small broccoli florets
- ½ cup chopped celery
- ½ cup raisins
- 10 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled (I like using thick bacon)
- 3 green onions, sliced (optional, can use ¼ cup of chopped Vidalia onion)
- 2/3 cup of mayonnaise (no salad dressing here)
- ¼ cup of honey
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 package of honey roasted sliced almonds (3.75-ounce pkg.)
Directions:
Combine the first 5 ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
Using a small bowl combine the mayonnaise, honey and lemon juice.
Pour the sauce over the broccoli mixture tossing to evenly coat.
Prior to serving stir in the almonds, more or less to your preference.
Suggestions:
Other ingredients you can add are: freshly cut grapes, and honey roasted peanuts – delicious – but make sure no one has an allergy to peanuts first if you add these.
Enjoy! From: “In the Kitchen with Sheryl!”
