Creamy BLT Cauliflower Salad

This creamy BLT cauliflower salad is incredibly flavorful and will be a huge hit every time you serve it! Enjoy!

When you want a deliciously fresh and low carb salad, this creamy BLT cauliflower salad is a perfect choice! This salad combines the perfection combination of creamy and crunchy elements. It’s perfect for everyday meals or to serve for all kinds of parties and get togethers!

Let’s talk about cauliflower!

Cauliflower is a delicious and versatile keto vegetable choice. It’s low in calories and carbs, but rich in nutrients. For this salad, I used white cauliflower, which is what you’ll most often find. But cauliflower can also be green, orange, and purple. It’s fun to cook with these varieties and I especially love using orange cauliflower to make cauliflower mac and cheese! Cauliflower is a versatile food which can be eaten raw or cooked. I love serving raw cauliflower with a dip as a snack or appetizer. I also love the crunch raw cauliflower adds to a variety of salads. When cooking cauliflower, you can boil, grill, microwave, roast, saute, or steam it. You can serve it as a side dish, just as is, or you can be made into mashed cauliflower. Another awesome way to serve cauliflower is to rice it to use in place of regular rice.

What other ingredients go into this creamy BLT cauliflower salad?

To our cauliflower, we add bacon, diced tomatoes, and fresh spinach. Yes, I know this dish is called BLT, but I find the spinach holds up better than lettuce, and adds more texture, color, and flavor to the dish. Also, BST just sounds funny!😊For the bacon, you can use regular or thick sliced bacon. Sometimes I fry and crumble my bacon. I also like to cook it in the oven. Other times, I’ll use kitchen scissors to cut bacon,  then fry it until it reaches a nice crispness level. For tomatoes, I used Roma tomatoes, also known as plum tomatoes, to make this salad. Alternately, you can use vine ripened tomatoes. I love using fresh spinach in all kinds of dishes, and I also like the convenience of using bagged spinach. I roughly chop the spinach for this salad. You can also tear it with your hands if you’d prefer.

How do I make the dressing for this creamy BLT cauliflower salad?

The dressing for this salad is incredibly easy to make but it’s also incredibly flavorful. The creamy base for this dressing comes from the combination of keto mayonnaise and sour cream. When buying mayonnaise, you’ll want to make sure there is no added sugar or oils you don’t want. I also love making homemade mayo as it’s amazingly creamy and delicious, and it’s amazingly easy to make! To our mayonnaise and sour cream, we add rice vinegar, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. For the vinegar, you’ll want to make sure you’re using plain rice vinegar and not seasoned rice vinegar. Seasoned rice vinegar includes added sugar which also adds unnecessary carbs.  After mixing your dressing in with your cauliflower mixture, you can give your salad a try and add more salt or pepper to taste.

Need some more keto cauliflower salad ideas? Here are a few I think you’ll enjoy!

Keto Antipasto Cauliflower Salad

Keto Cauliflower Pea Salad

Loaded Keto Cauliflower Salad

Marinated Keto Cauliflower Salad

Helpful Hints:

*You can use regular or thick sliced bacon to make this salad.

*If you’d like, you can add more salt and pepper to taste.

Main Kitchen Equipment and Utensils:

• Mixing bowls
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons

Splash of Encouragement:

***As for the saints who are on the earth, “They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” Psalm 16:3***