Keto Broccoli Slaw

Broccoli Slaw Salad with Creamy Dressing is a keto friend side dish with crunchy walnuts, chopped red onions, and slightly sweet dried cranberries.

The perfect side salad to complement afternoon BBQ or family get togethers, this healthier option to potato salads is really full of flavor. No bake, no cook, no fuss, keto broccoli salad is dump and mix salad with tangy and creamy homemade vinegar dressing.

Personally I like broccoli with broccoli, carrots, and cabbage pieces. Its colorful, delicious, and has the perfect amount of crunch for a side salad. This broccoli slaw salad recipe, complete with delicious dried cranberries and walnuts, is hearty and creamy.

The best part is this kind of salad gets better with age, making it the day after JUST as tasty. The same thing happens with our Keto Broccoli Salad (full size broccoli florets, not broccoli slaw) too!

Low Carb Broccoli Slaw Recipe

The key to making any side dish keto friendly is to watch all that awful sugar content that comes in a variety of pre-packaged foods. Stores like to sneak sugar in EVERYWHERE. But with a little bit of checking the bags first, its not so difficult to find healthier options anymore.

• Bag of Broccoli Slaw Mix
• Sugar Free Dried Cranberries – Sugar free dried cranberries do not taste as great on their own but work fine when mixed into other recipes as part of the keto diet. I have linked to one suggestion however feel free to check your own store for other brands.
• Walnuts
• Red Onion

Broccoli Slaw Salad Dressing {Keto}

While this keto salad recipe is completely simply, you really do not need to take any short cuts for full flavors. Still keeping on a ketogenic diet, its fine to use a sugar substitute like monkfruit in the broccoli salad dressing. If you would like to enjoy this recipe without worrying about carbs, white sugar is also fine as part of the recipe.

I only add that because I have asked how to interpret this easy keto side dish into a regular BBQ side dish. In this particular recipe, you would change sugar substitutes to white sugar and add regular cranberries. Instantly goes from a low carb broccoli salad recipe to just simply creamy broccoli slaw.

• Mayo – Hellmann’s recommended 
• Monkfruit Sweetener
• White Vinegar

How to make Creamy Broccoli Slaw

Combine together the low carb diet friendly dressing into a large mixing bowl and whisk. This includes mayo, monkfruit, and vinegar. Once thoroughly combined, set creamy dressing aside. 

Add bag of broccoli slaw, Honestly Cranberry Cranberries, and walnuts in a large bowl.

Mix salad ingredients till incorporated.

Pour dressing into broccoli slaw and mix until entire bowl is covered. It is fine to add a bit of black pepper or even a squeeze of lemon juice prior to serving.

For best results, chill slaw for at least 2 hours prior to serving. 

How long does Broccoli Slaw Keep?

I never recommend keeping a salad with dressing more than 3 days in an airtight container. The dressing will start to get a bit watery.

How to keep Broccoli Slaw Keto Friendly!

When it comes to salads, keto or low carb isn’t always do-able as a great side dish. Over the summer it can be really hard to carb count all those sides! But this keto friendly broccoli slaw salad is easy if you have all the right things on hand.

Remember to substitute any white sugar for MONK FRUIT SWEETENER and drop the dried cranberries for Honestly Cranberry brand. This salad is just as good with its creamy dressing and the little bit of crunch that walnuts adds (yes, walnuts are keto friendly as long as not coated in sugar).

For full nutritional data in case you need to alter specific serving size or count the grams of net carbs, this site relies on CarbManager.

• NOT KETO – Fine to use white sugar, any bag of cranberries (most come sugared)
• KETO: Monk Fruit or Stevia in dressings, no-sugar cranberries

Low Carb Salad Variations

1. Don’t love walnuts as part of an easy keto recipe? Sunflower seeds are a delicious keto option as well, just make sure to grab the right bag as some sunflower seed bags have excess salts.
2. Cheese is a great low carb keto friendly addition many people enjoy. Cheddar cheese or blue cheese go great in cold broccoli salad and when looking for a variation, is one of the first things many add.
3. You can never go wrong with adding bacon and turning this easy broccoli salad into a broccoli bacon cheese salad!

Amazing Side Dish Salad Recipes

Need more salad side dishes? I test and create all my delicious salads personally and most include an easy to follow video so you can see the fresh ingredients. Here are a few of my favorite salads this week. 

• Perfect for after Easter, our highly rated Egg Salad
• Keto Broccoli Salad
• Grape Tomato & Cucumber Salad
• Shrimp Pesto Pasta Salad
• BLT Pasta Salad
• Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad