Easy Summer Salad Recipe | Healthy Broccoli Salad

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This easy broccoli summer salad recipe is the perfect dish to bring to your next summer barbeque! It’s also great for a quick lunch salad, or even on the side of a summer night’s family dinner. Not only is it super easy to make, but it’s also extremely healthy made with all-natural, whole ingredients. This salad is so delicious and you can enjoy it completely guilt-free!

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Easy, Healthy Broccoli Salad

This easy broccoli summer salad recipe is the perfect dish to bring to your next summer barbeque! It's also great for a quick lunch salad, or even on the side of a summer night's family dinner. Not only is it super easy to make, but it's also extremely healthy made with all-natural, whole ingredients. This salad is so delicious and you can enjoy it completely guilt-free!

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Prep Time 15 mins

Servings 4

Ingredients

  

• 2 Heads Broccoli, chopped small
• 1/2 Cup Mixed seeds (I use sunflower, pumpkin, chia, flax and hemp)
• 1/4 Cup Red onion, finely chopped
• 1/4 Cup Cheddar cheese, grated
• 1/3 Cup Dried cranberries

Dressing:

• 1/3 Cup Olive oil
• 2 TBS Apple cider vinegar
• 1/2 TBS Dijon mustard
• 1 TBS Honey
• 1 Garlic clove, minced
• Pinch of salt

Instructions

 

• Chop and combine all ingredients
• Blend dressing ingredients
• Pour dressing onto salad and mix well
• Best served chilled

I hope you found this easy summer recipe as simple and straightforward as I did. Broccoli salad is one of those things that taste delicious, but we can easily find a healthy alternative to make it enjoyable and much better for our health.

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Being married to a professional athlete, we often have to try to find healthy solutions to meals, while still maintaining a variety. This can be quite the challenge because, after a while, it starts to feel like you run out of different options and ideas. This broccoli salad is an easy salad recipe that I’m sure we’ll be making often this summer. It’s fresh, light, and makes a wonderful side dish to any summer dinner idea.

When it comes to your health, it’s important to remember that in order for us to flourish, we must nourish. We need to be cautious about the foods we put into our bodies, and the choices we make every day about what we eat. Your future self will be a direct cumulation of the choices you make today. That goes for your family too. When it comes to children, we must lead by example in choosing healthy options and cooking wholesome meals. In turn, our kids will observe us doing this and end up doing so for themselves.

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