Warm Broccoli Salad With Bacon

Warm Broccoli Salad with Bacon will impress your friends and family. Broccoli, bacon, and pecans are paired with a light creamy sauce along with cranberries and raisins to make a delicious warm salad.  Side dish?  Main dish?  The choice is yours.

Start by cooking the cranberries and raisins.

Next, add milk.

And the mayonnaise.

Stir until the mixture becomes smooth.

Add cooked broccoli and bacon.

Don’t forget to add the pecans, too!

Stir it all well.

Warm Broccoli Salad with Bacon is a great side dish.  Just picture it served at Easter or Christmas with ham, or with grilled chicken breasts.

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Warm Broccoli Salad with Bacon

This easy side dish will impress your friends and family.  Broccoli, bacon, and pecans are paired with a light creamy sauce along with cranberries and raisins to make a delicious warm salad.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup cranberries
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup water
• 2/3 cup real mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup milk
• 2 Tablespoons honey
• 4 cups broccoli cooked
• 6 slices bacon cooked and chopped
• 1 cup pecans

Instructions

1. Place cranberries, raisins and water in a large skillet. Cook over medium heat for 5-6 minutes or until soft and liquid is reduced.
2. Reduce heat to low and add mayonnaise, milk and honey. Mix well and continue to stir until heated through and smooth, about 2-3 minutes.
3. Stir in broccoli, bacon and pecans and heat until mixture is heated through.
4. Serve warm.

Broccoli Facts

1. Broccoli belongs to the cruciferous (Brassica) botanical family.  (Other members of that family are cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage.)
2. One cup of (raw) broccoli supplies 135% of the recommended daily value of Vitamin C and is only about 30 calories.
3. Broccoli is a great source of natural folate, containing about 63 µg/100 grams (provides 16% of RDA).
4. Vitamin K, Niacin, pantothenic acid (vitamin B-5), pyridoxine (vitamin B-6), and riboflavin and a small amount of omega-3 fatty acids (Alpha linolenic acid-ALA) are other nutrients naturally found in this cold-season veggie.
5. The word broccoli comes from the Italian plural of broccolo, which means “the flowering crest of a cabbage”, and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning “small nail” or “sprout”.  The large head and thick stalk broccoli we are most familiar with is Calabrese broccoli (named after Calabria, Italy)

What would you serve along with Warm Broccoli Salad with Bacon?  I think it would go great with Chuck Eye Steak!