Keto Antipasto Cauliflower Salad

This keto antipasto cauliflower salad is bursting with fresh and delicious flavors! Get ready for the recipe requests when you serve this awesome salad!

Cauliflower meets antipasto with this keto antipasto cauliflower salad and it’s an awesome match up! This salad is perfect for barbecues, parties, and potlucks, or any time you want an extra special dish. This is one of our favorite salads and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do!

Let’s talk about the ingredients in our salad!

We start with combining cauliflower, diced red peppers, diced red onion, cherry or grape tomatoes, and artichokes to make this salad. I used a red bell pepper, but you can use any color pepper you’d like for your salad. I kept my tomatoes whole, but you can halve them if you’d prefer. For the artichokes, I recommend using artichokes marinated in water since we’re adding an olive oil based vinaigrette to our salad. To make our salad antipasto, we’re adding an awesome combination of  mozzarella cheese, both pepperoni and salami, and two kinds of olives. For your cheese, you could also use provolone or even fresh mozzarella balls if you’d like. I used green olives stuffed with pimentos and Kalamata olives for my salad. Alternately, you could use black olives or regular green olives if you’d like. We then add fresh chopped parsley to this salad.

How do I make the vinaigrette for this keto antipasto cauliflower salad?

The vinaigrette for this salad is ridiculously simple yet amazingly flavorful. The reason I chose a simple and mild vinaigrette is because there are so many awesome flavors in our salad ingredients. Between the vegetables, tomatoes, artichoke hearts, cheese, meats, and olives, we get amazing flavor that doesn’t need too much help from a dressing! Our vinaigrette combines olive oil, red wine vinegar, dried oregano, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. If you’d like, you can use fresh oregano for your vinaigrette. If so, you’ll want to use 1 tablespoon of fresh oregano in place of the 1 teaspoon of dried. Also, if you’d prefer, you can use 2-3 minced garlic cloves instead of using garlic powder. I always recommend giving your salads a taste and adding more salt and pepper if you’d like.

How can I serve this keto antipasto cauliflower salad?

You have so many awesome ways to serve this salad. It’s a great appetizer salad choice or side salad dish. This makes a big salad, and although nutritional information is for 12 servings, it could easily serve more. It’s a great option for barbecues, parties, and all kinds of get togethers. This salad would pair nicely with most any keto main dish. You can serve it with anything from burgers, keto sandwiches, or lettuce wraps to roasts, steaks, or seafood mains. You can also serve this with keto casseroles, or dishes such as meatballs, meatloaf, peppers and onions, and sloppy joes, just to name a few. It’s perfect for a lunch, brunch, or dinner salad. If you’d like, you could also serve this salad with a keto soup for a fun twist to a soup and salad meal!

Here are some keto soups that would pair nicely with this salad!

Cheesy Keto Chicken Poblano Soup

Easy Keto Tomato Soup

Keto Hamburger Vegetable Soup

Keto Roasted Tomato Vegetable Soup

Helpful Hints:

*I left my tomatoes whole, but you can halve them if you’d prefer.

*This salad stays crunchy for quite a few days, stored covered in the refrigerator. If it dries out at all, you can simply drizzle in some additional olive oil.

Main Kitchen Equipment and Utensils:

• Large mixing bowl
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons

Splash of Encouragement:

***O You who hear prayer, To You all flesh will come. Psalm 65:2***