Broccoli Salad with Avocado Dressing
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This Broccoli Salad with Avocado Dressing is a delicious healthified twist on the standard broccoli salad that you're sure to love. Crisp broccoli paired with carrots, chunks of jicama, crunchy seeds, and instead of mayonnaise, it's topped with a zingy avocado dressing.
This healthy broccoli salad is sure to stir things up a bit at your table by adding variety to your meal. Plus, it will for sure help you add more healthy veggies to your diet.
It's crunchy, full of color, and tastes fabulous smothered with this Zingy Avocado Dressing.
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Jicama Facts
For those of you not familiar with jicama, it's a root veggie. However it's not starchy and is much lower in carbohydrates than a potato, so it's fabulous for those on a candida or otherwise low-carb diet.
Its flavor is similar to a very mild apple, raw potato, or large water chestnut and it adds a great crunch.
It can be eaten either raw or cooked, and in fact, some like to make faux french fries from it.
Note: this recipe was adapted from one on GI365.
Ingredients
With just a few simple ingredients, you can make this delicious salad.
- broccoli
- carrots
- jicama
- red onion
- peas
- pumpkin seeds
- avocado
- lemon juice
- olive oil
- garlic
- salt
- parsley
- stevia
Variations
While the avocado dressing is a favorite of mine on this salad, it would also be great with my Nutritional Yeast Salad Dressing, Moroccan Vinaigrette, this Vegan Ranch Dressing, or this Honey Balsamic Dressing.
For an AIP version, replace the peas with asparagus. and use red grapes, organic tiger nuts, or organic plantain chips instead of pumpkin seeds.
Broccoli Salad with Avocado Dressing
Ingredients
- 5 cups broccoli (cut into small pieces – about 1″-2″ in size)
- 4 carrots
- 1 cup jicama (diced)
- 1/2 red onion (small)
- 1 1/2 cups peas (fresh or defrosted frozen)
- 1 cup pumpkin seeds (roasted and salted)
Instructions
- Shred the carrots.
- Dice the onion.
- Combine all salad ingredients in a large bowl.
- Pour this Vegan Avocado Dressing over the salad and mix to combine.
- Sprinkle with pumpkin seeds.
Nutrition
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What is your favorite veggie?
What category would this fall under in the Trim Healthy Mama Plan?
This is an S without the Peas. Limit the peas to 1/2 cup per serving for an S recipe. You would have to watch the rest of your carbs, of course. I just put that in the recipe – thanks!
Curious what recipe or dressing you prefer over this salad?
Hi Rebecca,
I gave a list of my favorite dressings in the post, but this Avocado Dressing would be my favorite: https://wholenewmom.com/recipes/avocado-dressing-recipe/
Hope you like it!