This Easy Cold Broccoli Salad with Bacon Recipe is just 115 calories and can be made in just 5 minutes!
Best of all, this broccoli bacon salad recipe is best served cold… which means you can make it ahead of time and store it in the fridge until it’s time to serve.
That’s one of the reasons we love this easy broccoli salad so much, it makes great BBQ and potluck dishes.
We even love to triple the serving and enjoy the leftovers for lunch the next day.
This Easy Cold Broccoli Salad with Bacon Recipe is just 115 calories and can be made in just 5 minutes!
Healthy Cold Broccoli Salad with Bacon
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make easy broccoli bacon salad at home, in just 5 minutes.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label for this broccoli salad recipe with bacon and so much more.
To make this easy broccoli salad with bacon and raisins (or cranberries!) easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Healthy Broccoli Salad Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Cold Broccoli Salad Recipes
- Easy Cold Broccoli Salad with Bacon (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Broccoli and Bacon Salad
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this recipe for cold broccoli salad with bacon and raisins to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for this healthy broccoli bacon salad recipe…
Healthy Broccoli Salad Ingredients
Thanks to our healthy swaps, we’ve been able to boost nutrition (and protein) and cut calories and unhealthy fats.
Check out our low calorie tips and tricks for making healthy broccoli sweet salad recipes just 115 calories…
Low Calorie Tips for Making Classic Broccoli Salad with Bacon:
- Greek yogurt – we use this protein packed, metabolism boosting ingredient in place of mayonnaise in this broccoli bacon raisin salad.
- Less Bacon – I know what you’re thinking, but if you cut the amount of bacon you still get all the yummy flavors of this salad with bacon recipe. Because we crumble it. So every bite gets real bacon flavor!
- All-Natural Sugar Substitute – we love this all-natural zero calorie sugar! It’s made from real sugar cane, but has zero calories and zero grams of sugar! And it’s the perfect thing to sweeten up the dressing for this broccoli raisin bacon salad!
Shopping List for Broccoli Salad with Bacon and Raisins:
- Broccoli florets
- Red onion
- Cooked and crumbled bacon
- Raisins or dried cranberries
- Sunflower seeds
- 0% Greek yogurt
- All-natural zero calorie sugar
- Red wine vinegar
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie broccoli bacon salad you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this bacon broccoli slaw can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make broccoli bacon salad healthy…
How to Make Cold Broccoli Salad Recipes
We cook the bacon ahead of time to make this broccoli and bacon recipe easy. This also means we can prep the bacon for other recipes, and avoid snacking on it.
We love making salad bacon recipes, and topping healthy soups with leftover crumbled bacon for flavor… like in this Cauliflower Soup Recipe.
Try this broccoli summer salad for those busy weeks that you need to bring a potluck item to work, or an impressive salad to a friend’s BBQ.
How to Make Bacon Broccoli Salad Recipes:
- To a medium bowl, combine the dressing ingredients and mix well. Set aside to marinate.
- To a large bowl, add the broccoli, onion, bacon, raisins or cranberries, and sunflower seeds. Toss together.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss until well coated.
- Store in the fridge until ready to eat, best served cold.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best broccoli salad with bacon
Easy Cold Broccoli Salad with Bacon
In the recipe card below, you will find that we gave you the option to use dried cranberries or raisins to this summer broccoli salad.
Either will work, and help to keep this recipe fresh and exciting every time you make it.
LOW CALORIE Broccoli Salad with Bacon and Raisins
Ingredients
- 4 cups broccoli florets
- 1 small red onion chopped
- 3 slices cooked bacon crumbled
- 1 cup raisins or dried cranberries
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
Bacon Broccoli Salad Dressing:
- ½ cup Greek yogurt
- ⅓ cup all-natural zero calorie sugar
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- ⅛ cup water
Instructions
- To a medium bowl, combine the dressing ingredients and mix well. Set aside to marinate.
- To a large bowl, add the broccoli, onion, bacon, raisins or cranberries, and sunflower seeds. Toss together.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss until well coated.
- Store in the fridge until ready to eat, best served cold.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Broccoli and Bacon Salad
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