Recipe: Appetizing Broccoli and Apple Salad with a Honey Poppyseed Dressing

Broccoli and Apple Salad with a Honey Poppyseed Dressing. Scrumptious Salad Recipes To Make Any Meal A Success With Kraft®, Try Today! Broccoli Apple Salad with Poppyseed Dressing is the perfect fall salad for all those sweet, crispy in-season apples and tender-crisp broccoli in a tangy, sweet, light dressing. If you like hearty salads made with more than just lettuce, then you'll also want to make my Bacon Avocado Potato Salad, Greek Tortellini Pasta Salad, or my Chopped Autumn Salad with Apple Cider Dressing.

I love the tartness of the cranberries with the sweetness of the honey and apples. Here is how you cook that. There's so much to love about this creamy, crunchy broccoli apple salad! You can have Broccoli and Apple Salad with a Honey Poppyseed Dressing using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Broccoli and Apple Salad with a Honey Poppyseed Dressing

1. You need of medium heads of broccoli.
2. Prepare of apple, cored and diced.
3. Prepare of large carrot, peeled and grated.
4. Prepare of roughly chopped pecans.
5. You need of pepitas (or sunflower seeds).
6. Prepare of dried cranberries.
7. Prepare of mayo.
8. You need of sour cream (or plain Greek yogurt).
9. It's of freshly squeezed lemon juice, divided.
10. Prepare of honey (or more to taste).
11. It's of poppy seeds.
12. It's of salt.

Fresh broccoli florets, apples, dried cranberries, almonds, sunflower seeds and onion tossed in a creamy poppyseed dressing. This Apple Broccoli Salad is one of my go-to side dishes because it really goes well with so many meals. Once you have your salad ingredients in the bowl, make the broccoli salad dressing. In a bowl, whisk together plain Greek yogurt, honey, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar and poppy seeds.

Broccoli and Apple Salad with a Honey Poppyseed Dressing instructions

1. Start by soaking your diced apples in a mix of 1 cup water and 1 tbsp. lemon juice for 5 minutes. This will help prevent them from browning. Then drain them and place them in a large bowl..
2. For the broccoli, you want to trim off the florets into small, bite sized pieces. Place them in the bowl with the apples, the grated carrot, the dried cranberries, walnuts and pepitas (or sunflower seeds). Toss it all together..
3. Next, make the dressing. In a small bowl, whisk together the mayo, sour cream (or yogurt), the remaining 1 tbsp. of lemon juice, honey, poppy seeds and salt. Taste and add either more lemon juice or more honey, to suit your taste..
4. Pour the dressing over the broccoli mixture and toss well to incorporate the dressing onto everything..
5. Chill for 2-3 hours before serving and refrigerate any leftovers. This will stay good for 2-3 days..

Pour this over the other ingredients and stir until everything is well coated with dressing. It's sweet and crunchy and inviting. It's sweet and crunchy and inviting. We even figured out how to turn it into a meal: add some cold, leftover chicken. Combine broccoli florets, chopped almonds, sliced bacon or bacon bits, grape halves, shredded carrot and green onion in a medium bowl.