Broccoli Cashew Salad with Apples, Pears, and Cranberries

Broccoli Cashew Salad with Apples, Pears, and Cranberries - a lovely homemade creamy salad dressing is thrown over it. This meal is simple to make and is loaded with fruits and vegetables.

The salad's excellent texture is a result of the crunchy cashews, fresh fruits, and veggies. Mayonnaise, sour cream (or kefir or Greek yogurt), honey, and lemon juice are the simple ingredients for the creamy salad dressing. Broccoli bacon salad and creamy broccoli and cauliflower salad are both fantastic salads to try if you enjoy broccoli salad.

You can create this broccoli cashew salad at any time of the year to receive a boost of antioxidants, vitamins, and fiber, but the winter is the best time to do it!  It is simple to prepare and keeps well in the refrigerator. a fantastic option for barbecues, potlucks, and family dinners on weeknights!

Salad dressing

I adore making a creamy salad dressing out of mayo and sour cream whenever I make broccoli salad since the flavors go so well together! Feel free to substitute kefir or Greek yogurt for sour cream if you don't like it (or don't have any) for an equally delicious flavor. I also include salt, honey, and lemon juice. you ensure that the honey blends in smoothly with the other salad dressing ingredients, make sure you slightly warm the honey first.

Broccoli Cashew Salad Ingredients

Salad:

• 5 cups broccoli florets chopped into small bites
• 1 apple cored and diced
• 1 pear (firm, not soft), cored and diced
• ¼ cup red onion diced
• 1 cup cashews toasted or roasted
• 1 cup dried cranberries

Creamy Salad Dressing:

• ½ cup mayonnaise
• ½ cup sour cream or kefir or Greek yogurt
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• ¼ cup honey softened or warmed up
• ¼ teaspoon salt

How to make broccoli cashew salad

The key to making a broccoli salad is to cut up fresh fruits and vegetables before mixing them with a salad dressing in a big bowl.  I'm done now!

1. Broccoli should be chopped up into bite-sized pieces.
2. Cored apples, pears, and red onions should be chopped.
3. Chop up the broccoli and toss it with the apples, pears, red onions, cranberries, and cashews in a big bowl.
4. Mayonnaise, sour cream (or kefir or Greek yogurt), lemon juice, honey, and salt should all be combined in a small bowl.  Advice: Honey should be pliable and fluid.  If necessary, warm it up to make mixing easier.
5. Stir everything together after adding the dressing.

Variations and substitutions

• Cauliflower. Replace the half of the broccoli with an equal amount of cauliflower to spice things up.
• Nuts. Here, a variety of nuts will work. Replace cashews with pecans, peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts, or pistachios.
• stale fruit. This recipe works well with dried cranberries, dried cherries, raisins, or dried blueberries.
• Natural Fruit. The combination of fresh apples and pears works well in this recipe, although either apple or pear alone would work.
• dressing for salad.  Combine mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, honey, and salt to make the salad dressing. By substituting some of the mayo or sour cream with kefir or Greek yogurt, the dressing can be made lighter.