It?s a real surprise that in over two and a half years we?ve never been asked for a broccoli salad recipe. Well, even though you didn?t ask, here it is!

Broccoli is just too awesome to deny it any longer. Firstly it?s a nutritional powerhouse with many proven health benefits, and secondly, as veggies go it?s relatively high in proteins (2.8g/100g).

For that reason our vegan broccoli salad suddenly becomes attractive to any vegetarian (or vegan) who doesn?t want to skip the chance of grabbing a few more grams of proteins when they eat their veggies (me, for example).

I mean we all want to make our gym efforts count, don?t we"!

My after workout ?snack? often consists of this broccoli salad with brown rice (or one of these yummy vegetarian post workout recipes!). It?s a really tasty way of restoring energy levels.
You can also prep the salad as a side to your regular lunch or dinner to make sure you get in enough veg for the day (aim for at least 5 servings of veg/fruit a day).

For some unknown and inexplicable reason, broccoli has a bad rep with children. Which is weird when you think about it, as broccoli are basically just little trees.

And we?re pretty sure kids love trees. Maybe this is because we?re normally just way too uninspired to make broccoli fun.

Yep, you read that right – I just used ?broccoli? and ?fun? in the same sentence. As this recipe is here to prove to you.

A few verbivores out there might rail and rally at us ...