- Today I show you how to make a broccoli salad.
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Jamie, did I have something stuck in my teeth?
Anyway, welcome back to the Average Kitchen.
Thanks for tuning in.
Don't you hate getting broccoli stuck in your teeth?
It happens to the best of us,
but I'm going to show you an awesome amazing
fresh broccoli salad.
Now, I can't guarantee you're not going to get
broccoli stuck in your teeth
but I can guarantee you are going to like it.
Basically, we have some fresh broccoli here
cut in to, we are going to call that florets.
Some salted sunflower seeds, some grated cheese,
bacon, mother of the gods, who doesn't love bacon?
Some craisins and a little bit of red onion
and then we are going to make an amazing dressing
and we are going to basically mix that all up
and it's going to be off the charts.
So, basically I'm going to start it
with doing some onion here.
So, because this is going to be raw onion,
you don't want the pieces to be too huge
but at the same time, you don't want it to be lost
in the salad.
So basically, just going to chop that up
the best we can.
So, I just added the onion. I'm going to dump in
my sunflower seeds and you can add as many
or as few as you wish, as well as these Craisins
really add a real nice sweetness.
Sometimes you just have to break them up a little bit.
Some bacon.
It's already looking awesome
And some cheese, now I like cheese but I don't want
to just taste cheese, so if you're a cheese lover
add more cheese.
Let's just give the salad a toss
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Alright, our salad is tossed and now let's make our dressing
This dressing, not keto. Lot's of sugar.
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Disclaimer, just so you know
We are going to start out with, it's all equal parts.
We are going to do half cup vinegar, half cup white sugar
half cup mayo, half cup oil.
So, we are going to start with our dry ingredients.
We have a shaker here.
We are going to start with our dry ingredients.
Some white sugar, which some people say
basically is the devil, which it probably is.
So, if you start or do the order I'm going to do it here
you will see you never have to use anything
but one measuring cup.
So we will do our white vinegar.
Steady.
Steady
Oh that is shaky.
- Wiggle the wrists in and out
and then we spread the hands out
and you can flap in and out
- Alright, now we are going to do our vegetable oil.
And lastly, which I forget to grab out of the fridge,
is mayo.
So this is a Hellmann's mayo,
really any kind of mayo will do,
but what you will see is when we are adding our mayonnaise
because we just had the oil in there,
the mayo is going to slide out really really easy.
And the reason I wasn't prepared and had this
on the counter, is because when I was growing up
my mom used to always tell me that mayo has like,
it can be out of the fridge for 30 seconds
and then it goes bad.
And, for one reason or another I still almost believe that.
So, there is our half-cup mayo.
So we should be able to just slide that off.
Just like that
and now we are going to add a very, very generous
amount of pepper and a little bit of salt.
We don't need much salt
Sunflower seeds are salty, the bacon is salty,
so just a little bit of salt
and now, we are going to shake it.
This is usually the part where Jamie works in
that shake weight thing from the 80's or the 90's
whenever that was.
Maybe he will, maybe he won't.
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So ideally, you want to let this cool for an hour or so,
but for the purpose of the video, we will just pour
it on and give it a mix.
It's been about 20 seconds, I have to get that mayo
back in the fridge.
So it's time to add our dressing and re-toss our salad.
So, we are going to poor that in here and then give it a mix
The cheese does tend to sort of stick to the walls
or the sides of the bowl, but we will work through that.
So, in like any other salad, it all depends on how
well you like your salad dressed.
But, we will add a little bit more here.
I think that is probably pretty good.
There you have it! A super fresh, amazing broccoli salad.
I hope you loved it. Check out our other videos
and we will see you on the next one.
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- I'm fighting myself to not say I'm going to toss the salad
- (Jamie) - Why fight it?