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SUPPER: Take broccoli; add bacon
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SUPPER: Take broccoli; add bacon
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Nothing improves a healthy vegetable salad like the addition of everyone's favorite pork part, bacon.� My aunt Cheryl serves this broccoli salad at summer family functions to add an obligatory green vegetable to our usual Italian spread of tortellini salad, hot sausages, meatballs and gravy and a� totally unnecessary cookie tower.
Raw broccoli is washed and thoroughly dried before being sliced down lengthwise for easy eating.� You can use bacon bits in a jar or fry a few strips, as you prefer. Adding golden raisins sounds unusual, but their sweetness provides balance to the bitter crunch of the broccoli and smoky bacon bits.� Recipe after the jump.
Cheryl D'Ambrosio's Broccoli Salad with Bacon
Yield: Enough to serve 15-20 guests as a side dish
Go Get This:
3 heads broccoli
1/2 medium red onion, minced
One large jar Hormel bacon bits OR six strips bacon, fried and chopped
2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup white sugar
Now Do This:
Wash broccoli thoroughly and cut florets away from large central stems. Spread florets on paper towels, until completely dry.� This is important or the salad will not be crunchy.� Slice florets down into easy-to-eat sized pieces; see photo above.
When broccoli is sliced down and totally dry, place in large bowl or Tupperware container.� In a small bowl, mix all other ingredients together until well blended.� Pour over broccoli and mix well.
Cover bowl and place in refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
Mix well before serving.
Having just visited my family last week in Birmingham, this recipe is indicative of perhaps everything I ate down there. I had offered to saute some squash with onions for my mother, to which she replied (accent and all), "All veggies should have bacon in them". Her veggie of choice is creamed corn with bacon.
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