For lunch today with our chicken salad croissant, I decided to make a broccoli salad. This is a southern broccoli salad because this recipe uses Duke’s mayonnaise. Everyone in the south uses and love Dukes Mayo. The dressing is sweet but also has a little tartness from the white vinegar, it makes this recipe very delicious!
Ingredients:
Dressing:
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup Mayonnaise (Dukes Mayo)
1 teaspoon white vinegar
Broccoli
raisins, add to taste – I generally add a hand full
small red onion, add to taste
bacon, 3-4 strips cooked or use real bacon bits in a jar
Cheddar cheese
Start by washing and cutting the broccoli into bit size pieces. Cook 3-4 strips of bacon or use the real bacon bits in a jar. Let the bacon drain, then chop into bits. Chop small red onion, add as much or little as you like.
Combine all of the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl and mix well.
Just before you are ready to serve, add the cut broccoli, onion and raisins into a bowl and stir in the dressing. Then top with the cheese and bacon.
What is your favorite cold salad, broccoli, pasta, etc? If you have posted your favorite salad recipe, please comment and share a link back to your recipe!
Quilted Flamed Maple Cheese Boards
Yum!! That broccoli salad is calling my name!!
Love broccoli salad! 🙂
That maple board is lovely Michael. I made a nice dressing at the weekend with walnuts, olive oil and lemon juice… will have to try it again and post it some time! 🙂
thank you Cathy, you should post your dressing!
Love broccoli salad!
Hi Gretchen, me too! 🙂
Michael – looks like a wonderful lunch!!
It was good, thank you!
That’s one I’ve never heard of. It sounds delicious!
The grain in that board is beautiful. I’m sure it’s also very hard to find.
It’s very delicious! Yes, the grain is very beautiful, Quilted Flamed Maple is very hard to find but worth it when you do.
I’ve never had broccoli salad but I love the way it sounds, I have also never had Duke’s mayo but I have to find it and try, I love pasta salads mixed with vegetables and a creamy dressing is my preference. I especially like to use tortellini. That board is just gorgeous.
It’s delicious Suzanne! If you can’t find Duke’s let me know and I will ship some to you! I love pasta salads with veggies, black olives, etc… Quilted Flamed Maple is very beautiful!
This made me hungry (which is saying a lot because I just finished lunch not long ago!). 🙂
Sounds tasty, Michael!
It’s very delicious Cynthia!
I love this salad (though up north we use Hellman’s). Now I’m bummed as I don’t think I had any this summer…I may just have to make a batch for myself 🙂
I love this broccoli salad, we have it all the time especially when the broccoli is fresh! 🙂
What a delicious lunch and broccoli salad is the best! I wish I could find Dukes mayo here in the Midwest so I could compare it to Hellmans, which is my brand of choice. Since you asked, one of my favorite salads is this creamy pasta salad: http://savoringtimeinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2011/09/creamy-pasta-salad.html
You should give it a try sometimes~! Duke’s is made here in Greenville where I live and it is good, very different than Hellmans! Your creamy pasta salad looks wonderful, I am planning to make it this weekend! 🙂
I’ve been away too long when I have no idea about Duke’s Mayonnaise. 🙂 Love that broccoli salad!
Oh I would have thought you knew Duke’s, they had it in TN! The broccoli salad will work with any mayo and it is delicious! 🙂
Growing up in small town NC I saw my share of Duke’s. This is a tasty salad and hope you enjoyed that delicious-looking meal. What a fine piece of flame maple you scored for that board–gorgeous figure.
Not many know about Duke’s!! Thank you, the quilted flame maple is beautiful!
I love salads with a good crunch, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to visit my favorite blogs, it’s so nice to be here! I love your new blog look.. bigger photos means bigger yum factor:D
HI Barbara! I am glad you had a chance to visit me. I like the new look too and love the bigger pictures too! 🙂 I noticed you changed your site too, looks great, I like your new format and navigation!
I’m playing catch-up after being gone for a week then moving into a temporary place until we can close on a house. What a great recipe, but we don’t have Duke’s up here in the Pacific Northwest. Here is one of my favorite salads, though, since you asked, but it doesn’t have mayo. http://anotherfoodieblogger.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/new-potato-salad-with-lemon-dill-and-chives-no-mayo/
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Hi Kathryn, sounds like a lot of work to me, hope everything works out for you guys! You can use most any mayo I suppose. Your potato salad looks delicious and I really like your basket of crab!! 🙂
Thank you Michael!
Anything with salad and broccoli in the same sentence has to be good! We adore these kinds of salads. Great job!
I agree with that, love broccoli salad anytime! 🙂
Well, YUM! I’ll have to look for Family Dollar in order to find Duke’s around here.
Lindy
If you don’t find it you can use your favorite mayo!