Broccoli love salad

…or “how to get people to eat a whole lightly steamed broccoli without noticing”. This salad is awesome. Essentially it’s just broccoli, pasta, greens, topped with yum. Would be perfect to take to a bbq. We just ate big bowls of it. Maybe could do with some nuts? You tell me.

You’ll need;

1 big head of broccoli

2 matchbox sized pieces of cheese (Nimbin Natural preferably), grated

4 slices of diced fake bacon (seriously**)

1 teaspoon of garlic

bag of greens (I used half watercress + half rocket)

1/4 thinly sliced red onion

roughly two cups of cooked pasta (just chuck a handful of some small pasta in a pot)

Dressing needs:

Juice of one lemon

slug of olive oil

teaspoon of dijon mustard

1/2 teaspoon of chilli flakes

salt + pepper

pop the pasta on to cook.

chop up the broccoli into small florets (dice the stem up too) and place in  microwave dish with water + zap on high for 6 minutes. Should still have a bit of crunch. You could also dry fry the diced stem with the fake bacon for diff texture.

fry up fake bacon with some oil and garlic until crispy. set aside

grate the cheese + slice the onion.

whack all the cold ingredients in a big salad bowl. When pasta + broccoli have cooled down add them too. To cool them down quicker drain the hot water and cover them with cool water for a while. Drain + add to bowl.

Mix everything up.

To make the dressing grab a little empty jar and add all ingredients. Screw lid on and shake. Alternatively chuck ingredients into a small water glass and mix with a teaspoon. Pour over salad + mix.
Eat.

Yum.

**use fake bacon! apart from the woes of animal fat, did you know, at med school,  we practice our suturing and burr hole techniques on pigs? Sad but it’s because they’re the most anatomically similar to humans. Pig heart valves are even used for human replacement as a pig heart is most similar to a human heart. They’re also really smart. And how cute was Babe? Violin? No? Well, try to avoid eating your heart-brothers + sisters for this salad. This is a love-salad. Fake bacon. Fakon. Try it.

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