This Healthy Broccoli Salad with Greek Yogurt Dressing is a great side dish and easy to prep ahead! It's the perfect healthy option for your next potluck and takes even better than the original!
What’s NOT to love about broccoli? It's easy to cook, sautee, roast, and keep raw in this fresh broccoli salad.
If you’re like me, you might also love that you can now make a clean broccoli salad recipe full of delicious flavors, rather than the heavy, high-fat options so often at potlucks.
Watch How To Make Healthy Broccoli Salad
Reasons You'll Love It
- Super quick to prepare
- Stores easy in the fridge
- A healthy take on a classic
- Great healthier potluck option
The best thing about broccoli salad is that it’s super versatile—you can add or omit any ingredients to make it your own special creation...except for the broccoli, of course!
Typically, broccoli salad is made with a heavy mayo-based salad dressing. Instead, I replace 100% of the mayo with full-fat plain Greek yogurt in a delicious, creamy, and tangy dressing.
All you have to do is mix together the following:
- greek yogurt
- apple cider vinegar
- raw honey
- lemon zest
- sea salt
That’s it! Healthy goodness (AKA greek yogurt broccoli salad dressing) ready in less than 5 minutes. Tangy. Creamy. Easy.
Ingredient Notes
Broccoli: So we all kinda intuitively know broccoli is good for you, but do you know why it's healthy or how good it is for your body? Broccoli is...
- high in fiber
- high in potassium
- high in iron
- great source of vitamin K
- great source of vitamin C
- low in calories
Click here to read any more about the health benefits of broccoli.
Greek Yogurt: I use full-fat greek yogurt instead of mayo which is the main thing that switched this into a healthier version.
Most mayo options out there just aren't the best. Mayo tends to be full of unhealthy fats, and high in calories. 1495 calories per 1 cup high in calories. That's a lot.
Greek yogurt, on the other hand…well, greek yogurt is amazing.
If you're dairy-free, however, you can switch to either a homemade mayo made with just a few simple ingredients or a plant-based plain yogurt alternative.
Bacon: Have you ever tried broccoli salad with bacon? It’s delicious. I don’t know about you but I love me a little bit of bacon from time to time. The salty crunch adds a lot to the flavor and texture in this salad.
If you use uncured bacon with no sugar added, your recipes will stay clean and healthy - just use the bacon within moderation. And if you only use a few crumbles for extra flavor and crunch, you're good to go!
P.S.: You can leave it out if you want to make this recipe vegetarian or if you simply don’t like bacon.
How To Make Healthy Broccoli Salad
- Combine greek yogurt, ACV, the honey, lemon zest, sea salt.
- Chill the dressing.
- Then add broccoli florets, red cabbage, red onion, raisins (I use golden), sliced raw almonds, green onions, and bacon crumbles.
- Mix it.
- Coat with the dressing.
- You can enjoy this healthy broccoli salad immediately or place in the fridge in a meal prep container.
How To Cut Broccoli Into Florets
Trust me, it really isn’t difficult to learn how to cut broccoli into florets. You just have to be a bit strategic.
While you could just go to town and start chopping away, the broccoli will break into millions of little pieces and make a big mess. Ideally, you'll want to break it into florets, especially when making a broccoli salad.
Here's how to cut the broccoli into florets:
- Wash the broccoli thoroughly under running water in your sink.
- Remove the stem with a large knfe.
- Use a paring knife to break down the broccoli into florets.
- Cut where the stem begins to branch into florets. Your broccoli florets should look like little trees. Cute little trees.
- Continue to move inward until you finish cutting the entire broccoli into florets.
- If your florets don’t look ideal, you can tidy up by cutting the stem further and further.
You want all the florets to be bite-sized so cut them until they have the same size.
While this recipe only uses the florets, I highly recommend keeping the stems, and using them as either a snack (so good!) or in some other recipe.
FAQs
This low-carb broccoli salad lasts for 4 to 5 days in the fridge. That means it's a great prep-ahead salad to serve as a side or an entree and can even be grabbed at the last minute to bring with you to a potluck. Meal prep perfection!
Yes! Prep the ingredients for the salad. Mix them together. Store them in an airtight container in the fridge. You can also prep the dressing and store it separately in the fridge (like I do with these homemade salad dressings)
However, the ingredients of the broccoli salad and the greek yogurt dressing like to mingle. So you can combine them a day before serving the salad. The taste will only get better.
This healthy Greek yogurt salad dressing is also good for other salads, so if you want to use it for other salads, you totally can. Double or triple the ingredients in this recipe, transfer the dressing to a jar, and store it in the fridge.
Nope! Only raw broccoli here. This also makes prepping it faster and easier.
More Healthy Broccoli Recipes
So it comes as no surprise if I say I like to incorporate broccoli into my weekly menu as often as possible, right? I want you to love broccoli as much as I do so here are other healthy recipes made with broccoli:
Healthy Broccoli Salad with Greek Yogurt Dressing
Equipment
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Ingredients
For the Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing:
- ½ cup plain full fat greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon raw honey
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
For The Broccoli Salad:
- 2 heads broccoli, cut into small florets
- 1 cup red cabbage, chopped
- ¼ cup red onion, finely diced
- ¼ cup golden raisins
- ½ cup sliced almonds
- 3 green onions, sliced
- 3 slices sugar-free uncured bacon, cooked and crumbled
Instructions
- In a small mixing bowl, combine Greek yogurt, apple cider vinegar, raw honey, fresh lemon zest, and sea salt, and then whisk together until smooth.
- Place this in the refrigerator to chill while you prepare the rest of the salad.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the (bite-size) broccoli florets, chopped red cabbage, diced red onion, golden raisins, sliced raw almonds, sliced green onions, and cooked bacon crumbles. (You could also add in grapes, sunflower seeds, a little cheese, dried cranberries, or even sliced apples.)
- Toss this all together until evenly mixed.
- Now, grab the dressing from the fridge and add to the top of the broccoli mixture and toss again to coat.
Cynthia
What brand of Greek yogurt do you use?
Lacey Baier
I prefer Fage 5% plain greek yogurt.
Harry
Is it US cup or Imperial Cup
Lacey Baier
This is US cup. 🙂