Does your family enjoy a Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe as part of your Thanksgiving spread? There are lots of variations on the broccoli cauliflower bacon salad out there, but this one with the sweet and tangy dressing, bacon, cashews, and red onions is not only pretty and healthy, but incredibly tasty and satisfying too! Our company always compliments our thanksgiving side dishes with this cashew broccoli salad as their favorite! Let me share our Thanksgiving salad recipes with you!

Does your family enjoy a Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe as part of your Thanksgiving spread? There are lots of variations on the broccoli cauliflower bacon salad out there, but this one with the sweet and tangy dressing, bacon, cashews, and red onions is not only pretty and healthy, but incredibly tasty and satisfying too! Our company always compliments our thanksgiving side dishes with this cashew broccoli salad as their favorite! Let me share our Thanksgiving salad recipes with you!

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Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad

As a kid I wasn’t really excited about vegetables and tried to avoid them at all costs, expecially on holidays like Thanksgiving when there were so many other yummy side dishes and salads to try (like my favorite Snicker Apple Salad). But broccoli and cauliflower salad was my one exception – the vegetables were actually yummy with the dress-ups and sweet tangy dressing of this Thanksgiving salad.  There are lots of versions of this broccoli Cauliflowre salad recipe out there. Growing up my dad put sunflower seeds and bacon in his, but this one with bacon, red onions, and cashews is my favorite that we serve as one of our Thanksgiving side dishes is my favorite!

broccoli, cashews, cauliflower, mayo, red onion, white sugar, bacon, apple cider vinegar

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad

Let’s start by making sure you have all the ingredients for this simple, super yummy salad!

  • 1 bunch broccoli
  • 1 cup cashews (or sunflower seeds if you prefer)
  • 1 bunch cauliflower
  • 1 and ½ cup mayo (I like the olive oil based one)
  • 1/2 red onion,
  • ¾ cup white sugar
  • 1 lb bacon
  • 3 TAB apple cider vinegar

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Start by washing and chopping the broccoli and cauliflower. You can buy pre-chopped bags to save time if you prefer. You want bite size pieces, discard the stems.

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Slice the red onion into slivers. This not only adds a beautiful pop of color to your salad, but gives it a nice twang.

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Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Mix the chopped broccoli, cauliflower, and sliced red onions together.

Broccoli Cauliflower Bacon Salad

Cook the bacon in a skillet over medium heat, turning as needed, until it is nice and crisp. Set aside and crumble when cooled enough to handle.

Make the salad dressing by mixing the mayo, sugar & apple cider vinegar in a small bowl until well combined.

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Make the salad dressing by mixing the mayo, sugar & apple cider vinegar in a small bowl until well combined.

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If you are making the dish ahead, stop here. You have a bowl of chopped veggies ready to go, salad dressing already combined, crumbled bacon, and cashews. If you combine the dressing when making it ahead the veggies will get soggy.

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Just before serving toss the dressing with the veggies until it is equally distributed, using just as much dressing as you like in your salad. Add bacon and cashews and toss to combine.

Your family and friends will love this special salad recipe that is pretty, colorful, filled with good-for-you-vegetables, and so tasty too!

Your family and friends will love this special salad recipe that is pretty, colorful, filled with good-for-you-vegetables, and so tasty too!

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Each bite has a wonderful mix of veggies, crunch, flavorful bacon, and balancing dressing.

Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe

We like to serve this for Thanksgiving along with turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, stuffing, and sweet potato casserole. Here are our favorite recipes:

 

Pretty Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe is a holiday must! Veggies + bacon + cashews + sweet & tangy dressing = YUM!

We also make this for Christmas and Easter and eat it alongside ham and our famous twice baked potatoes!

It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without our family's snicker apple salad recipe! My kids go nuts over this non-traditional snicker salad they look forward to eating all year long. This quick-to-make apple snicker salad combines pudding, whipped topping, crisp apples, and snickers for an outrageously yummy thanksgiving side dish your kids won't expect. Pretty Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe is a holiday must! Veggies + bacon + cashews + sweet & tangy dressing = YUM! We make a lot of really yummy Thanksgiving side dishes, but the star of our table is our sweet potato casserole recipe! Over the years I perfected this recipe to the point where my kids beg for the best sweet potato casserole year-round and they know this homemade sweet potato casserole will be gone before anyone gets seconds! I love that this is a seriously easy sweet potato casserole where you can throw it together quickly, make it ahead, and it tastes fabulous every single time. you will love this sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, oats, and nut topping! One of my families favorite side dishes for Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, Easter, and throughout the year is our green bean casserole. This easy, homemade green bean casserole uses canned green beans for simplicity along with French's fried onions for a tasty, memorable vegetable dish that everyone will love.

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These are the absolute best cinnamon roll recipe you are ever going to taste. These homemade cinnamon rolls are gooey, delicious, and easy to make. Plus this clone of Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls Recipe comes out perfect every time! But the best part, you can make these amazing cinnamon rolls in the bread machine! Your family is going to love these bread machine cinnamon rolls!If you are looking for a yummy breakfast recipe that is warm, satisfying, and oh-so-delicious - you will love this cinnamon coffee cake! This coffee cake recipe is simple to make for a filling breakfast cake. Serve this easy coffee cake with coffee or orange juice and you are ready for company or even a quick school day braekfast. You can even make this easy cinnamon coffee cake the day before so it is no-prep as you are rushing to get out the door and on with your day.  Looking for a yummy breakfast or snacking bread that captures summer? This delicious peach bread combines the juicy, flavor of summertime peaches with a satisfying loaf. You've got to try this peach bread recipe that will delight your family and friends!

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Unlike traditional Chili, this Sweet Chili has baked beans and is super EASY to make. Favorite even with picky eaters. YUMMY Delicious Instapot Corn Chowder REcipe If you are looking for a yummy soup made from ham bone, you will love this delicious Leftover Hambone Soup Recipe! This soup recipe uses all the flavor already in the ham bone for a hearty and flavorful ham soup! This is not only the best tomato soup recipe, but it is actually good for you too as it is filled with not only tomatoes but carrots, celery, onions, and garlic too! But don't worry, your family wont realize they are eating lots of nutritious vegetables as they will just enjoy the rich flavor from the bacon and roasted tomatoes. This best homemade tomato soup is our family's favorite soup recipe for fall, winter, and anytime we want some yummy, homemade comfort food! I know your family will love this best ever tomato soup too!

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Pizza Quesadilla - this easy lunch recipe is ready in 5 minutes and tastes amazing! Plus it is a kid favorite lunch idea for at home or in their lunch box #pizza #quesadillas #easyrecipes #lunchrecipes #kidrecipes #yummy Best Asian Slaw Recipe This quick and EASY taco salad with ground beef is a family favorite! Make this best salad recipes with our homemade taco seasoning! Are you looking for fresh ideas for easy summer salads? This berry salad is super quick and easy to make with a homemade raspberry vinaigrette on top. This berry spinach salad is loaded with healthy greens with bright, cheery and healthy summer berries like strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. You will love adding this to your list of summer salad recipes perfect for quick lunch ideas!

Recipes for Salads and Sandwiches

If you are looking for a simple dinner recipe, you will love this flavorful orange couscous chicken! This chicken couscous is quick and easy to make, but bursting with flavor. The orange zest chicken is moist and delicious sitting on top a bed of orange cous couse! Yum! Nothing says summer like a warm grill cooking meat to perfection! But enough with burgers and dogs, it's time to make some delicious grilled pork loin. My mouth starts wating at the thought of our delicious BBQ grilled pork loin recipes. These juicy grilled pork tenerloins have a super easy pork loin marinade for grilling that gives them the most incredible, rich flavor while keeping the meat moist and oh, so yummy! Want to learn about cooking pork tenerloin on the grill? Keep reading! Easy Lasagna - delicious and simple dinner recipe the whole family will love! Make head for company or a quick weekday dinner. Pasta makes a quick, easy and filling meal, but pasta dinner ideas seem to be either tomato or heavy cream based sauces. This easy pasta recipe is a quick dinner idea with a no tomato pasta sauce you can make all in one pan in under 30 minutes! This simple pasta recipe is sure to become a new staple  easy pasta dishes the whole family will love!

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Learn how to make your own homemade caramel popcorn that tastes even better than storebought, with this easy oven baked recipe. This pineapple cheese ball is the perfect cheese ball recipe! It is slightly sweet with an amazing flavor that will be a favorite with kids and grown ups alike. This is my favorite appetizer recipes. Yummy! These apple hand pies are perfect for fall! Serve this apple hand pie recipe as dessert in September or as a fun appetizer where you dip in our homemade carmel sauce. Either way this hand pie dough recipe filled with our yummy apple pie filling is sure to be a hit! You can use our hand pie dough recipe with our fruits too! Yummy appetizers are one of my favorite dinner alternatives and things to serve for holidays and game nights. But finding a variety of sweet, savory, filling, and unique can be challenging. This bacon and water chestnut appetizer is a staple for our parties because it is so delicious and an easy finger food recipes that fills out our menu. So if you are looking for fun appetizers to serve at your next party - you need to try these wter chestnut appetize bacon wrapped!

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Cashew Broccoli Salad

Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad with Bacon and Cashews

Does your family enjoy a Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad Recipe as part of your Thanksgiving spread? There are lots of variations on the broccoli cauliflower bacon salad out there, but this one with the sweet and tangy dressing, bacon, cashews, and red onions is not only pretty and healthy, but incredibly tasty and satisfying too! Our company always compliments our thanksgiving side dishes with this cashew broccoli salad as their favorite! Let me share our Thanksgiivng salad recipes with you!
5 from 6 votes
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Course Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine thanksgiving
Servings 8 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 bunch broccoli chopped
  • 1 bunch cauliflower chopped
  • 1 1/2 cup mayo
  • 1 cup cashews
  • 1/2 medium red onion sliced
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 pound bacon cooked and crumbled
  • 3 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar

Instructions
 

  • Start by washing and chopping the broccolia nd caulofwer into bite-sized pieces. Slice the onion. Combine the vegetables and set-aside.
  • Cook the bacon until nice and crispy and set aside. When cool, crumble.
  • In a small bowl mix the mayonaise, sugar & apple cider vinegar until well cobined.
  • If you are making it ahead leave all the components seperate until just before serving so the veggies don't get soggy. When ready to eat simply toss together veggies, dressing, cashews, and bacon until combined. Refrigerate any leftovers.

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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5 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Oooh, I’ve only ever had it with sunflower seeds. Cashews would offer a great crunch! Thanks

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  2. 5 stars
    Loved the dressing. Perfect combination of tangy and sweet. Yum

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  3. 5 stars
    This was so yummy, I ran to the grocery store to get ingredients to make it again tonight! Thanks.

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  4. 5 stars
    This is so much better than the restaurant versions I’ve tried. Thanks so much.

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  5. 5 stars
    Love it! Going to serve it at our family holiday meal this year. appreciate the recipe

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