The beauty of this salad lies in its perfect simplicity. And diversity. First of all it is a very quick and easy recipe, which requires just a few ingredients. Then what’s even better, that this recipe is not just a salad recipe! Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake it until golden-brown (with or without some cheese on the top). Or you can add one more avocado to this mixture and it’s the creamiest and most delicious green pasta sauce ever. Or my favorite way is just to spread it on a toast, it tastes wonderful!
You know, everybody is using cauliflower as rice or couscous substitute but we often forget about broccoli, which is also amazing this way. Finely chopped broccoli can be amazing as a pizza base, in veggie patties or for example as a pesto base. Be creative and love broccolis! ♥
I really love to snack on raw broccoli, but it’s maybe just my perversion. If you are not a friend of raw broccoli, you can first steam the broccoli for about 5 minutes.
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Raw Broccoli Salad with Chickpeas and Almonds
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 1 small head of broccoli
- a handful of roasted almonds
- 1 shallot
- 1 can of chickpeas
- 1 avocado
- 1 lime
- olive oil
- salt, pepper
Instructions
- Slice the broccoli into smaller pieces and add to a food processor. Blend until you get small, rice-like pieces. Add to a bowl with the washed chickpeas, sliced shallot and roughly chopped roasted almonds.
- Add the avocado to a small bowl with the juice of a lime, salt, pepper and a bit of olive oil and smash with a fork. Add to the salad and mix well together. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Category: Salad
Yum! I love broccoli and I’m really into green food right now. The greener the healthier and better for us! I love the idea of toasting this in the oven.
Me too! I think I am already craving spring foods, a lots of greens….
I love it in the baked too, especially with quinoa and ever more almonds on the top 🙂
Wauw, this looks so good! I always use cauliflower as a substitute, but I definitely have to try broccoli too 🙂 Pinned!
Thank you!
I love to use cauliflower too, especially coz it has a more neutral taste than broccoli, but nowadays cauliflower is somehow very expensive here and broccoli is always under a euro 🙂
I tried this recipe today and it really tastes amazing! I didn’t expect it to be THAT good 🙂
Extremely delicious…thank you so much for the recipe 😀
I am so happy you liked it, Gina! 🙂
Can you use frozen broccoli rice, thawed? How many cups?
Hi Lisa,
frozen broccoli could also work, though it’s gonna be more like cooked/steamed broccoli, since thawed broccoli doesn’t have a crunch like fresh. But if you don’t mind that texture, then it should be fine.
I would say 2.5-3 cups of frozen broccoli florets are about the same as a small head of fresh.