A Delicious and Easy Broccoli Salad with mandarin oranges, red onions, bacon and a tangy dressing.
Hi friends! It’s Wednesday…half way until the weekend and March break for us. I’m looking forward to one week of not having to fly out of bed and rush kids out the door to school. Just a week of get up when we want and do what we want with our time…ahhhhh. And a chance to catch up from the time change…time changes are hard aren’t they? Who invented them anyway…what were they thinking?! I admit, I do love the extra sunshine…but that hour, that 1 hour, it’s amazing the havoc it wreaks. Zzzzzzz
Anyway, we’re talking broccoli today. Little green trees of yumminess. And I love them. You?
One of my favourite recipes for broccoli is this Broccoli Salad. I made this salad as one of my very first blog posts way back when, and since I recently got a new camera and I was making this for a get together this past weekend, I felt it necessary to blog it again. New camera means a need to take pictures of everything. Everything. And this is the first photo I took with my new camera. And I’m kind of loving it. 😉
This broccoli salad with mandarin oranges, red onions, tangy dressing and bacon, it’s broccoli heaven I tell you. Everything is better with bacon right?
Broccoli Salad
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: -26861544 minutes
- Total Time: 135 minutes
- Yield: 6 - 8 servings 1x
Description
A Delicious and Easy Broccoli Salad with mandarin oranges, red onions, bacon and a tangy dressing.
Ingredients
Salad Dressing
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp dry mustard
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar (See tips below.)
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
Salad
- 4 cups broccoli (cut in bite size pieces)
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 8 slices cooked and chopped bacon
- 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 2 mandarin oranges (peeled and separated)
- 1/2 red onion (thinly sliced)
Instructions
Make the dressing first:
- In a saucepan, whisk eggs, sugar, cornstarch and mustard.
- Add vinegar and water and cook slowly until thickened.
- Remove from heat and stir in mayonnaise. Cool slightly.
Making the salad:
- Toss the dressing and the broccoli together, then refrigerate for a few hours, to marinate.
- When you are ready to serve the salad, toss in the remaining ingredients.
Recipe from Best of Bridge
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This salad is perfect with baked ham…in fact this dish makes it onto almost every Easter dinner table with our ham. And I can’t imagine it any other way. Baked ham, broccoli salad, dill scalloped potatoes and buns. Best spring menu ever.
I hope you try it!
Have a delicious day!
12 Comments
Cupcakes & Crossbones
March 12, 2014 at 8:45 AMThis looks delish! Can’t wait to try it!
Jo-Anna
March 12, 2014 at 9:22 AMI hope you enjoy it! 🙂
Stephanie
March 12, 2014 at 9:16 AMI have never had broccoli salad, but this looks incredible!
Jo-Anna
March 12, 2014 at 9:20 AMIt really is SO good…the dressing…it’s the best!
Bette @ Somerset Lane
March 12, 2014 at 9:42 AMI have been force feeding myself broccoli over the past couple of months, cause apparently it’s good for you. Still trying to get past the texture. This looks like an awesome recipe. I’m pinning for later!
Jo-Anna
March 12, 2014 at 3:22 PMThe texture of broccoli is kind of weird isn’t it! I hope you enjoy it if you end up making it!
Elizabeth
March 12, 2014 at 3:14 PMGreat timing Jo-Anna; I was going to take a broccoli/grape/sunflower seed salad over to the school for sharing night Thursday, but I think I’ll do this one now (unless you have plans on taking this !)
Cheers,
Elizabeth
Jo-Anna
March 12, 2014 at 3:21 PMDefinitely go ahead and make this! They’ll love it!!
Angie In My 30s
March 13, 2014 at 8:01 AMinteresting combination, i never would have put those flavors together! looks delish
Shauna
March 13, 2014 at 8:01 AMLooks like a hearty salad that would be good to take to a potluck too! I’m with you on the time change, Jo-Anna. How can one hour make such a big difference. I seldom wake up to my alarm and this week I could’ve pressed snooze every day!
Virginia Fynes
March 14, 2014 at 5:27 PMI make a very similar salad but haven’t tried fruit in it, a must try addition, thanks for the idea!
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