When you want a hearty cold broccoli salad recipe but you don’t want the sugar and carbs to go with it, then you’ll absolutely love this low-carb keto broccoli salad with bacon. Chock full of delicious ingredients like fried bacon, cheese, low carb sunflower seeds, and a keto-friendly sweet dressing, this easy salad recipe will be perfect as a meal prep lunch, on your holiday table, or at a potluck with friends. When I think of holiday dinners and summer broccoli salad, broccoli salad always seems to be on our family table. Come to think of it, for two decades now I’ve been getting assigned broccoli salad for every occasion, I have this recipe down pat.
A traditional broccoli salad recipe calls for lots of sugar, lemon juice, and sometimes sweetened cranberries or raisins. While maybe you thought you couldn’t still have broccoli salad on your health program, you’ll find that this keto broccoli salad tastes just like the yummy traditional version you’re used to. That being said, my husband LOVED this low carb keto broccoli salad with bacon version BETTER than the original! He thought that the apple cider vinegar added a nice kick to the salad that lemon juice doesn’t provide. I’ll be serving this low-carb broccoli salad at my next family party and I don’t even plan to tell them it’s keto and I can guarantee they won’t even notice the difference. The broccoli salad keto recipe doesn’t taste low carb, which means you can serve it to anyone and I promise it’ll get rave reviews! Raw broccoli holds its shape well and doesn’t get soggy.
The keto-friendly broccoli salad will keep for many days in the fridge. It’s easy to make recipe swaps, whether you prefer a different type of nut, cheese, or even protein, customize it or use up what’s in your fridge. Here’s our traditional broccoli cauliflower salad recipe if you’re looking for a cold broccoli salad and weren’t here for a keto version. Do you love broccoli as much as we do? To make this classic salad as low as carb and keto as possible, we substituted the lemon juice with apple cider vinegar, the sugar with Swerve, and used salted sunflower seeds instead of sugary cranberries or raisins.
