Vegan Broccoli Salad
This delicious vegan broccoli salad features an entire rainbow of whole-food ingredients, including broccoli, tempeh, and pistachio nuts. It comes with a sriracha tahini dressing, making sure the salad is bursting with flavor.
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of traditional salads. Mostly because they are usually bland and unimaginative. This is why I am on the mission to create vibrant, flavorful, and filling salads that work both as a side dish and as a main meal. This vegan broccoli salad is packed with flavor, full of color, and the texture is to die for! It’s crunchy, creamy, savory, spicy, and satiating all at once. This salad is perfect for meal prep, or as a side dish for a weekend BBQ.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Nutritionally, it has everything you need for a full-rounded meal. It has plenty of plant-based protein, fibre, and healthy fats. If you’re looking for a balanced meal, it’s your lucky day!
- Did you know that the vibrant colors of the vegetables you eat can contribute to your longevity? That’s right, salads full of brightly-colored ingredients can make you live longer thanks to pigments known as phytonutrients that indicate the presence of antioxidants and other useful nutrients.
- This vegan broccoli salad is a perfect meal prep recipe! It doesn’t take long, and it can be upscaled to accommodate the size of your household.
- The flavors are so great, this salad will win the hearts of any friend or family member you serve it to. Be sure to bring it to the next BBQ party and watch it disappear in an instant!
- You can easily customize this recipe to accommodate allergies, food intolerances, or simple preference.
How to Make This Recipe
Start by preparing the tempeh bacon. You can find the recipe here. It’s one of my most popular recipes, which is why it’s also featured in the PlantYou Cookbook! It’s not too late to grab your copy, but be warned – once the stock is sold out, the next print won’t be available until June!
To make the dressing, simply add tahini, water, lemon juice, sriracha, and maple syrup to a jar. Whisk everything together until the mixture is consistent and smooth.
The last part is easy. Add your tempeh bacon, chopped broccoli, bell pepper, pistachios, and red onion to a mixing bowl. Pour the dressing into the bowl and mix everything together. Voilà!
Hack It!
- If you prefer a bit less heat, adjust the amount of sriracha in the dressing or play around with the tahini-sriracha ratio.
- Sesame is a common allergy, which rules out tahini as an option. Try making this dressing with nut or seed butter instead. Alternatively, try my green goddess dressing or one of PlantYou oil-free dressings.
- For a soy-free version of this salad that doesn’t lack protein, replace tempeh with seitan, chickpeas or fava beans.
- For a nut-free version of this salad, you can omit pistachios entirely, or replace them with sunflower or pumpkin seeds.
- Making this salad as a meal prep dish? Hold the dressing. Mix the rest of the ingredients together and store the dressing separately. Drizzle it over your vegan broccoli salad just before you sit down to enjoy it.
Store This Recipe
This salad will keep for up to 5 days in the fridge, which means you can meal prep for an entire work week in advance!
Other Recipes You’ll Love
- Cold Noodle Salad with Nut Dressing
- Mason Jar Kale Salad
- Rainbow Cabbage Salad
- Shredded Brussels Sprout Salad
- Deconstructed Spring Roll Salad
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The Recipe: Vegan Broccoli Salad
Ingredients
- 5 slices tempeh bacon, cooked & chopped
- 2 heads broccoli, diced
- ¼ cup pistachios, diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper, diced
- 1 red onion, diced
Sriracha Tahini Dressing
- ½ cup tahini
- 3 tbsp warm water
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 2 tbsp sriracha
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
Equipment
- chopping board
- knife
- Jar
Instructions
- Cook tempeh bacon according to link or package instructions.
- Combine dressing ingredients in a jar and whisk until smooth. Add more water as needed to thin to a desired consistency.
- Assemble all listed salad ingredients in a bowl. Pour dressing over top, toss and enjoy.
Notes
Is the nutritional information for half this recipe? Tia
No – this recipe lends 6 servings and the nutritional information is for 1!
Do you steam the broccoli?
It is raw but you can steam it if you would like!
Hi, Not interested in anything that tastes like meat. Substitution suggestion for the tempeh bacon?
Thanks!
Hi Mary – you can leave it out