A Nutritive Broccoli Salad–The BEST broccoli salad you will ever have!!! With cheese, cashews, onion, and dried berries. And the healthy dressing is HEAVEN!
Don’t be fooled by those florets of Broccoli, combined with cheese(feta or cottage), red onion, cashews, and dried berries (of your choice) they are so healthy and tasty that even the most hardcore broccoli haters will love it.
And we also add, the tastiest and healthiest dressing of all time.
A dressing so good, you can take your spoon and guzzle it down.
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INGREDIENTS:
5 cups coarsely chopped broccoli florets, steamed or grilled on non-stick
2 cups cottage/feta cheese, diced
1/3 cup cashews
1/4 cup diced red onion
1/4 cup dried/fresh berries of your choice
Optional Add Ons: Diced Carrot (steamed), Broken Walnuts, Diced Apple, Sliced Almonds, Grilled Eggplant Slices, Thinly Sliced Beetroot, Thinly Sliced but Unpeeled Cucumber, Halved Small Tomatoes, Flaxseeds, Durum Wheat Pasta, etc.
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FOR THE DRESSING:
1/3 cup hung yogurt
1/2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon natural vinegar (red wine/apple cider/Jamun/balsamic)
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Oregano Dressing
Sea Salt and Pepper (Black or White)
DIRECTIONS:
To make the dressing, whisk together yogurt, honey, olive oil, and vinegar in a small bowl; set aside.
In a large bowl, combine broccoli, cheese, cashews, onion, and berries (and other ingredients if chosen). Stir in the dressing mixture, add salt, pepper, and oregano dressing to flavor and gently toss to combine.
Cover and chill 1 hour before serving.
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Afternote:
Thumb rule of nutrition is that in general, combining different colored ingredients will amp up the antioxidant levels of the dish.
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With so many ingredients available you can try a different salad almost every day. This recipe of a Nutritive Broccoli Salad allows for a varied combination of ingredients so that you can swap one ingredient for another without upsetting the nutritional quotient of the dish. If you don’t like broccoli (or anything else), either skip it altogether or add in quantities and size too small to be noticed. This salad has clean sources of protein, complex carbohydrates, healthy fats, minerals and vitamins, and loads of antioxidants.
Happy Eating.
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