This Broccoli Grape Salad is fully loaded with juicy grapes, fresh cucumber, crisp bacon, and toasted pine nuts. The creamy dressing is so simple with just 4 ingredients.
We love broccoli salads like our most popular Broccoli Salad with apples, Broccoli Corn Salad or Broccoli Cauliflower Salad. They are perfect for potlucks and always get rave reviews!
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Broccoli Grape Salad Recipe:
We originally shared this broccoli grape salad in 2015. It is a recipe from my Mother-in-law. We added crisp bacon and toasted pine nuts and a great salad got even better!
We love serving this as a side salad for dinner, paired with Mashed Potatoes and Pork Tenderloin, but it’s also a really satisfying and filling lunch when served as a main course.
Ingredients for Broccoli Grape and Cucumber Salad:
The flavor and texture combination of this broccoli grape salad is very exciting with sweet grapes, salty bacon, toasted pine nuts, and tangy dressing. It’s hard to stop eating it!
The ingredients are simple and you can swap several things out depending on what you have on hand:
- Fresh Broccoli (or sweeter broccolini)
- Cucumber
- Seedless Grapes (red or green), or use raisins
- Red onion (or sweet yellow onion)
- Toasted pine nuts (or sunflower, or pumpkin seeds)
- Browned bacon
Is Broccoli Salad Healthy?
Broccoli is one of the healthiest green veggies. Broccoli is a low calorie, low carb vegetable (only 3.5 carbs per cup). It also has many health benefits and important nutrients:
- Rich in Vitamins K, Vitamin C and Vitamin A
- Great source of Vitamin B6 and Manganese
- High in fiber and folate
Can I Substitute the Mayo?
The dressing is really simple and good and the freshly squeezed lemon juice really lightens it up. If you aren’t a fan of mayonnaise, you can substitute it with equal parts of sour cream and mayo, or just use all sour cream. If using sour cream, you might add a teensy bit more sugar to taste since sour cream is tangier than mayonnaise.
How to Make Broccoli Grape Salad:
- Brown the bacon and toast pine nuts.
- In a mixing bowl, combine all prepared salad ingredients.
- Stir together broccoli salad dressing until smooth
- Mix the dressing into the salad and serve cold.
Can this Broccoli Salad be Made Ahead?
To save time, you can make this ahead. Chop up all of the salad ingredients and arrange them in a bowl. In a separate container, stir together creamy broccoli salad dressing. Stir the dressing into the salad just before serving.
What to Bring to a Potluck:
Here are more potluck recipes that always get great reviews. Many of these can be made ahead!
- Egg Salad Recipe – the easiest salad
- Avocado Corn Salad – one look and you’ll know
- Chicken Potato Salad – aka Olivier
- Deviled Eggs – these fly off the plate
- Strawberry Pretzel Salad – most requested dessert!
Watch Natasha Make Broccoli Grape Salad:
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Broccoli Grape Salad Recipe
Ingredients
Salad Ingredients:
- 6 oz bacon, chopped, browned
- 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted (or sunflower seeds)
- 1 lb broccoli crowns, (2 medium heads) cut into small florets
- 1/2 English cucumber, sliced
- 1 1/2 cups red grapes, (seedless), halved
- 1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped
Dressing Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice, or added to taste
- 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt, or to taste
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Brown bacon in a skillet then remove to a plate using a slotted spoon. In a separate, dry skillet, toast pine nuts over medium heat until golden and fragrant, tossing often (3 minutes), then transfer to a plate.
- In a medium bowl, combine chopped broccoli, sliced cucumber, halved grapes, diced onion, browned bacon and toasted pine nuts.
- In a separate small bowl, combine 1/2 cup of mayo, 2 Tbsp lemon juice, 1 Tbsp sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper and mix well.
- Mix the dressing into the salad & serve.
Nutrition Per Serving
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My pine nuts were not fresh, so I subbed in walnuts, otherwise made the recipe as is. It was delicious!
I’m so glad you enjoyed that Eileen!
Very good. I am doing the keto diet, so I just changed the sugar to monk fruit. Worked perfectly. Great salad. Absolutely would make it again. Love the pine nuts. FYI. Love your personality and recipes. Pls keep it up.
Thank you so much for that awesome review, Nathalie!
Made this today for my family and we all LOVED it! My husband doesn’t like broccoli but he absolutely loved this salad! I will have to make more tomorrow! Thank you Natasha for such a wonderful and easy recipe!
You’re welcome! Thank you so much for giving this recipe a great feedback.
This broccoli grape salad is the best ever! I made it tonight to take to a friend’s house and it hit the spot. I will be making this many more times.
That’s just awesome!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review!
Hi Natasha… I have a family member who I doesn’t eat raw onion. Could I grate onion and add it to the dressing to get the flavor? Any other ideas? Thanks – love your recipes!
Hi Stacy! That may overpower the dressing. You could try it, but it would be fine to leave them out completely as well.
I might be totally blind (usually the case) where is the cooking course sign up?
Hi Darla, thank you for asking. We have a free email course here.
I made this for a recent holiday gathering and it received rave reviews! I did not cook the broccoli before assembling the salad and it was just right for us.
Sounds like you found a new party favorite! Thank you so much for sharing that with me, Sue!
Made this for thanksgiving. I skipped the nuts and boiled the broccoli for a few minutes. It was fantastic. The dressing was perfect.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Bex! Thank you for the wonderful review!
Just made this salad as an accompaniment to dinner. This is really good! No additions or deletions made. Thanks Natasha! Another great recipe.
You’re welcome, Shelley! I’m so glad you enjoyed that.
This salad is absolutely delicious and flavorful! Sweet, salt, and tangy all in one bowl.
I’m so glad you enjoyed that, Katelyn.
Hi there! I made this salad two days in a row, we like it so much!
But the second time around I made a few changes:
I subbed the pine nuts with toasted almond slivers and omitted the acon and the cucumbers, because I forgot to buy them.
I made the balsamic dressing from your Autumn Chopped Chicken Salad and added two tablespoons of mayo. This really took the salad to the next level and I liked it even better!
Thanks for your amazing recipes!
I’m so happy you enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing that with us!
I adore broccoli and everything else in this salad. My hunny refuses to eat raw broccoli 🙁 I made a simple change, I blanched the broccoli florets literally for like 30 seconds, cooled it down etc and added it to the bowl. It just takes the “raw” out of the broccoli. I waited to cut up the broccoli in small pieces until after I blanched it to avoid overcooking it. Well the verdict, he loved it and wants it as a side on Sunday for the football game with some ribs! Yay, thank you as always. We need our boys to have some kind of veggie’s on Sundays and potato chips don’t count! I’m going to double the recipe too, these boys can eat.
I’m so happy you all loved the recipe! That is wonderful. That is a great tip to blanch the broccoli. Thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love this salad! I just found this recipe a week ago and just made my second batch. I’ve been eating it everyday for lunch. My family and I love your recipes. We use so many of them in our regular dinner rotations. We’ve yet to try a recipe of yours that we didn’t love! Thanks for sharing them!
I’m so happy to hear that, Samantha! Thank you for sharing your great review!
I hate to be the only one here that didn’t like the recipe. I made it EXACTLY like you posted. My hubby looked at me and said “you had to have missed something, we love all of Natasha’s recipes,” after that he threw it in the sink.. 🙁
Hi Vicky, I’m so sorry. That’s 100% my fault. I’m kicking myself right now. I went and made the dressing just now after reading your comment because I remembered it tasting so good and sure enough, I forgot an ingredient. I updated the recipe but dang I’m so sorry I ruined dinner. 🙁
Yes, I used fresh lemons, everything was exactly like the recipe shows.
That was totally my fault. I’m so sorry Vicky. You replied before I edited my comment. I completely missed an ingredient in my notes and posted it wrong. Thank you for your honest review and for pointing that out to me. I feel so bad..
i love your recipes and your videos
greetings from Belgium!
Wilma
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing your great feedback!
, this recipe has alot (809 mg) of sodium, 19 mg of fat and, and 14mg of carbs , ( not to bad)
where is that much sodium come from, I know bacon has salt but ???
Hi Joyce, it’s mostly the bacon. Without the bacon, it goes to about 242 mg of sodium, so if you were cutting down on sodium, I would suggest removing the bacon and it will still taste great.
Great recipe! I made this last weekend for a family gathering. Everyone loved it! Thank you
I’m so glad you all enjoyed it! Thank you for the wonderful review!
What a light and perfectly crunchy salad! Looking forward to making this with dinner tonight, indeed!
Hi Sara, I hope you love it! We look forward to your feedback!
Loved this salad so much! The grapes are such a nice pop of sweet!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing your great review, Krissy!
This salad was SUPER yummy! Was definitely a hit!
That’s so great, Katie! I’m happy you enjoyed that.
Love this salad! I love broccoli but that combo of bacon and grapes is sooo delicious!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing your great review!