Cauliflower Salad Recipe – Love and Lemons

This cauliflower salad is a picnic-perfect facet dish! It is brilliant and scrumptious, that includes a creamy dressing, recent herbs, and crunchy uncooked cauliflower.

I’ve shared a roasted cauliflower salad (okay, 5) on the weblog earlier than, however this RAW cauliflower salad is the primary of its variety.

I’m already questioning what took me so lengthy, and when you strive it, I believe you’ll be too!

This cauliflower salad recipe is brilliant and scrumptious. I like to think about it as a enjoyable, recent twist on basic potato salad. Like potato salad, it has a creamy, mustardy dressing, hard-boiled eggs, and savory herbs, however cauliflower replaces the potatoes. Pickled crimson onions and capers add an additional briny punch.

This cauliflower salad recipe packs up completely for lunches, potlucks, and picnics. It truly tastes higher in case you make it a day forward! I’m bringing it to a late summer time gathering this weekend. When you have one arising, you need to too! This cauliflower salad can be successful.

Cauliflower Salad Components

Should you take a fast look by means of the cauliflower recipes on Love & Lemons, you’ll in all probability discover that only a few of them name for uncooked cauliflower. This veggie is one I sometimes favor roasted, when it’s caramelized and tender. After I do use cauliflower uncooked, it’s usually within the type of cauliflower rice.

However on this salad, uncooked cauliflower florets completely work. Minimize into small items, they absorb sufficient dressing to melt barely, however they nonetheless retain a refreshing crunch.

Right here’s what else you’ll have to make this cauliflower salad recipe:

• Exhausting-boiled eggs – They provide a creamy distinction to the crisp cauliflower florets.
• Celery – It provides savory taste.
• Pickled crimson onions and capers – They provide this salad a brilliant, briny pop!
• Recent parsley and dill – The dill provides bitter, pickle-y taste. The parsley’s recent taste balances the salad’s briny, acidic components.
• Olive oil, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, and honey – They create the salad’s creamy, tangy dressing. I really like utilizing the yogurt as an alternative of bitter cream or mayo right here. It provides the dressing an excellent creamier texture and tangier taste.
• And salt and pepper – To make all of the flavors pop!

Discover the whole recipe with measurements under.

Make Cauliflower Salad

This cauliflower salad recipe is simple to make. Right here’s the way it goes:

Begin by making the dressing. Whisk collectively the olive oil, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, mustard, honey, garlic, salt, and several other grinds of pepper in a big bowl.

Subsequent, add the opposite elements. Toss within the small cauliflower florets, hard-boiled eggs, celery, pickled onions, capers, and recent herbs. Combine properly to coat within the dressing.

Then, chill the salad for at the least 1 hour and as much as 1 day.

Lastly, serve. Stir properly and season to style earlier than digging in!

What to Serve with Cauliflower Salad

This cauliflower salad is a superb facet dish for summer time cookouts. Pair it with veggie burgers or black bean burgers and different BBQ facet dishes like these:

It’s good for picnics and lunches too. I usually take pleasure in it as a meal by itself—the protein from the hard-boiled eggs makes it fairly satisfying! It additionally goes properly with a chickpea salad sandwich or Caprese sandwich.

Extra Favourite Salad Recipes

Should you love this cauliflower salad, strive one among these recent salad recipes subsequent: