This creamy broccoli slaw is irresistibly tasty! It’s straightforward to make utilizing recent broccoli or the packaged combine you will discover in most grocery shops.
Right here’s a recent spin on the traditional broccoli slaw! And who knew it may very well be so irresistibly tasty? Alex and I almost polished off your complete bowl on our personal. This recipe you can also make with store-bought broccoli slaw baggage or recent broccoli and carrots. It’s bought a creamy dressing that’s equal elements savory, tangy, and a little bit candy. It really works as a summer time facet dish for a cookout, or an anytime facet dish that works with…effectively, something! Do that stunner of a broccoli recipe…you gained’t be upset!
First: what’s broccoli slaw?
Broccoli slaw is a spin on the normal coleslaw utilizing thinly sliced broccoli stems as a substitute of cabbage. Usually you’ll discover carrots within the combine, and it’s coated in a mayo-based coleslaw dressing. Broccoli slaw has turn into so fashionable that the combo is offered pre-packaged in grocery shops within the US. However it’s also possible to make it with recent veggies!
Different stuff you’ll discover in broccoli slaw recipes: a candy ingredient like sliced apple, dried cranberries or raisins, and a crunchy ingredient like sunflower seeds, sliced almonds, and even dried ramen noodles. Bounce proper to our recipe to see what we used.
Make slaw with packaged combine or recent broccoli!
A good function of this broccoli slaw recipe is that it’s customizable primarily based in your preferences and the components you’ve gotten entry to! You should use both storebought combine, or use recent broccoli and carrots. Right here’s a little bit breakdown of the professionals and cons of each:
- Recent broccoli and carrots: Extremely suggest utilizing recent veggies right here! The flavour is out-of-this-world recent. It’s quickest and best with a meals processor: you’d want a slicing blade and a grating blade. Or, you should utilize a knife to thinly slice the florets after which a field grater to grate the broccoli stems and carrots. It’s price it for the flavour: we promise!
- Bagged broccoli slaw combine: It’s often straightforward to search out broccoli slaw combine on the grocery retailer, offered in 12 ounce baggage. You’ll simply want 24 ounces of slaw, which makes this methodology very fast and straightforward. The tradeoff? You lose a few of that recent, lovely veggie taste; retailer purchased combine is usually a little dry.
Components for broccoli slaw dressing
Apart from chopping these veggies, there’s actually not rather a lot to do on this broccoli slaw! Merely combine up the dressing, then toss it with the greens. The dressing on this recipe is mayo-based, but it surely comprises much less mayo than the usual recipe. It’s primarily based on our fashionable Creamy Coleslaw Dressing. Listed here are the components you’ll want for broccoli slaw dressing:
- Mayonnaise (use vegan mayo for a plant-based slaw)
- Apple cider vinegar
- Sugar (or maple syrup for naturally candy)
- Dried dill
- Celery seed
- Salt & pepper
Broccoli slaw add-ins!
This broccoli slaw is extremely good with simply veggies and dressing. However it’s also possible to add candy or crunchy parts to make it even higher. Listed here are some choices:
- Sunflower seeds: we added these for a crunchy topping
- Sliced almonds: this is able to additionally add a crunch
- Dried cranberries or currants: for savory + candy followers! Alex isn’t, so we left them out in our model
- Julienned inexperienced apple: for an additional candy ingredient
Extra slaw recipes
Are you a slaw fan? Alex and I’ve realized we’re big followers of the stuff: we have now a tough time not loading up on it after we serve it! Listed here are a number of extra slaw recipes to strive:
This broccoli slaw recipe is…
Vegetarian, dairy-free, and gluten-free. For vegan and plant-based, use vegan mayo (needs to be comparatively straightforward to search out at your grocery or on-line).
Description
This creamy broccoli slaw is irresistibly tasty! It’s straightforward to make utilizing recent broccoli or the packaged combine you will discover in most grocery shops.
Components
- 1 half of kilos broccoli on the stem* (or 24 ounces packaged broccoli slaw and skip carrots)
- 2 medium carrots
- half of cup mayonnaise (or vegan mayo)
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar or maple syrup
- half of teaspoon dried dill
- half of teaspoon celery seed
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Recent black floor pepper
- 1/four cup sunflower seeds (non-obligatory)
- 1/four cup dried cranberries (non-obligatory)
Directions
- For recent broccoli & carrots: Match a meals processor with the slicing blade. Minimize the florets off of the broccoli, then feed them into the meals processor to thinly slice them. Peel the stems of the broccoli and the carrots, then minimize them into items to suit into the meals processor. Change the blade to the grating blade and feed them by the meals processor. Alternate methodology: Thinly slice the florets with a knife. Then use a field grater to giant grate the peeled broccoli stems and carrots.
- Place the sliced greens (or baggage of broccoli slaw) into a big bowl. In a small bowl, combine collectively the mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, sugar, dill, celery seed, kosher salt, and several other grinds recent floor pepper.
- Add the dressing to the greens and stir till coated. If desired, stir in sunflower seeds or dried cranberries. Eat instantly or refrigerate as much as 2 days.
Notes
*For a potluck or cookout, we’d suggest multiplying this recipe by 1.5 to make 12 servings.
- Class: Facet Dish
- Technique: Uncooked
- Delicacies: American
Extra broccoli recipes
Round right here, we’re massive broccoli followers! In case you are too, listed below are some high broccoli recipes to strive:
- Roasted Broccoli (Finest Ever!) Oven roasted broccoli makes this inexperienced veggie style SO GOOD you may’t cease sneaking bites!
- Creamy Broccoli Potato Soup Intensely creamy, satisfying, and 100% plant primarily based! It’s a straightforward wholesome soup that everybody loves.
- Broccoli Stir Fry Makes this inexperienced vegetable style irresistible! Serve it as a tasty facet dish, or add a protein and also you’ve bought dinner.