Broccoli Cauliflower Salad
This Weight Watchers friendly broccoli cauliflower salad is a perfect lunch or a side dish for dinner! It’s packed full of flavor and crunch making it a salad for to enjoy year round.
Similar to our Broccoli Salad Recipe on the Light Side this recipe is a lightened up side dish that is fresh, bursting with flavors, and great to share. Can be made in advance too which is great for meal prepping!
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What do I need to make this broccoli salad with bacon?
To make this recipe for broccoli cauliflower salad you will need broccoli, cauliflower, bacon bits or crumbed bacon, red onion, blueberries, and low-fat Colby jack cheese in cubes!
That’s it’s! Isn’t it crazy to think that with a few fresh ingredients you can can make a delicious side dish that everyone will love? It’s a simple one but all of the flavors come together to create a delicious salad.
You can also make a homemade dressing for this salad which uses fat free greek yogurt, light mayonnaise, sugar free honey substitute, red wine vinegar, Splenda, and sea salt. It’s a zesty topping that goes great with all of these fresh veggies and fruit.
Which WW Program are these points for?
WW has definitely changed from 2020 to now. They went from three to one plan to multiple plans and back to one plan again. So in 2023, we have just plain old “POINTS.”
- Be sure to calculate the points value of the foods and recipes you eat in the app.
- Always add ingredients and serving sizes and don’t rely on the nutrition facts in the recipe.
- Accuracy will come from the information you input on the app.
How to Make Weight Watchers Broccoli Cauliflower Salad:
During the summer it’s especially easy to get great produce here in PA. This Weight Watchers broccoli salad utilizes some of those great options in a fresh and delicious recipe that is great for Weight Watchers and other healthy lifestyle programs.
It’s a cauliflower salad that foregoes all of those unnecessary additives and hard to pronounce ingredients you find on labels at the store! I love making a batch of this for our family gatherings and backyard BBQ’s.
We’re all busy, right? We don’t have time for crazy recipes that include a ton of steps and difficult problems to solve. We just want to make delicious meals that are healthy and also tasty, right?! Well, we are all in luck today because this recipe is very easy.
Check it out right here:
In a small bowl, combine all the dressing ingredients and mix with a whisk until smooth
Set aside in the fridge
Using a large mixing bowl, combine all of the salad ingredients
Drizzle the dressing over the salad and mix until evenly coated
Place salad into the fridge for an hour or until ready to serve.
Toss salad again before serving
Enjoy!
Helpful tools for making this broccoli salad recipe:
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How do I make a Weight Watchers Salad Dressing?
In a small bowl, combine all the dressing ingredients and mix with a whisk until smooth
Set aside in the fridge
Printable Cauliflower Salad Recipe:
You can easily print or save this recipe with the card below! Feel free to bookmark the page or use this printable format so you can enjoy this Weight Watchers broccoli cauliflower salad at your next gathering or event!
This delicious broccoli salad recipe also comes with a salad dressing recipe that is healthier than store bought varieties and still tastes great.
What is sugar free honey?
I’ve had some comments about the sugar-free honey that this recipe calls for so I wanted to provide a link and some information for where to get that and what it is.
It absolutely does exist…Link Here: sugar free all natural honey and it’s great for recipes like this where you want and needs the consistency of honey but don’t want the added calories!
Here are some kitchen essentials that I like to have on hand when making recipes like this for meal prep:
Making healthy meals is a breeze with these kitchen essentials. Keeping things like this on hand makes my life so much easier in the kitchen.
Some things that are great to have on hand when prepping meals like this is a cutting board, sharp knives, and storage containers.
You can also benefit from a good skillet, a kitchen scale, measuring cups, and this awesome strainer tool!
More Weight Watchers side dishes to try:
I love sharing my favorite Weight Watchers recipes with you! Here are some other great side dishes that are Weight Watchers friendly that I think you’ll love!
- Southwestern Weight Watchers Goulash Recipe
- Weight Watchers Tropical Ham Salad
- Weight Watchers Sweet and Sour Meatballs
- Weight Watchers Mediterranean Salad
- Cottage Cheese Caprese Salad | Low Smart Points Recipe
Printable Recipe:
Weight Watchers Broccoli Salad
This Weight Watchers broccoli cauliflower salad is a perfect lunch or a side dish for dinner! It's a great summer salad recipe!
Ingredients
Salad ingredients:
- 4 C broccoli, diced small
- 4 C cauliflower, diced small
- 1 C chopped bacon
- 2 C fresh blueberries
- 1/2 C chopped red onion
- 1 1/2 C lowfat Colby jack cheese, cut into small cubes
Dressing ingredients:
- 3/4 C fat free greek yogurt
- 1/2 C light mayo
- 1/4 C sugar free honey substitute
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp splenda
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine all the dressing ingredients and mix with a whisk until smooth
- Set aside in the fridge
- Using a large mixing bowl, combine all of the salad ingredients
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad and mix until evenly coated
- Place salad into the fridge for an hour or until ready to serve.
- Toss salad again before serving
Notes
Serving Size: 12 servings Points per serving: 4
Nutrition Information
Yield 12 Serving Size 1 cupAmount Per Serving Calories 194Total Fat 10gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 23mgSodium 369mgCarbohydrates 19gFiber 3gSugar 12gProtein 9g
As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts, WW points and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
The salad was very good.. I was shocked at the amount of Calories considering it was a WW dish. 484 calories for one serving? Wow
there is no such thing as sugar free, all natural honey
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