A crisp, fresh salad without the meat that is comparable to a muffuletta filling. For years, my aunt Holly has been making this. To make sure nothing on Allrecipes matched, I performed an ingredients search. Many thanks; I adore your website!
| Prep Time: | 35 mins |
| Additional Time: | 4 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 35 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped cauliflower
- ½ cup chopped black olives
- ½ cup chopped green olives
- ⅓ cup chopped green bell pepper
- ⅓ cup chopped celery
- ¼ cup chopped pimento peppers
- 3 tablespoons chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 dash ground black pepper
- 4 ½ tablespoons olive oil
- 1 ½ tablespoons vinegar
- 1 ½ teaspoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Combine cauliflower, black olives, green olives, green bell pepper, celery, pimento peppers, onion, sugar, salt, and pepper in a large bowl.
- Whisk olive oil, vinegar, and lemon juice together in a small bowl. Pour over cauliflower mixture and toss to combine. Refrigerate salad until flavors combine, 4 hours to overnight.
Reviews
I wanted a cauliflower salad recipe which did not use mayo. I made a few changes using what I had on hand. I used canned black olives which I always have, bottled green olives stuffed with garlic and sun dried tomato, a yellow bell pepper and a spring onion. I didn’t have celery, green bell pepper nor pimento peppers. My substitutions worked fine. I will make this salad again.
This is so good! I added a green onion and used jalapeno stuffed green olives. Swapped out the green pepper for a yellow one (preference). The recipe didn’t state what type of vinegar so I used white. Let it sit in the fridge overnight. This would be great to take to a summer potluck picnic!
I cannot say enough good things about this recipe. I thought I made as written but looking back over it now I realize that I accidentally left out the sugar. I didn’t even notice. This was delicious. The cauliflower absorbed the perfect amount of the dressing taking that bitter bite out of it . Everything just worked together perfectly. It gets better as it sits overnight in the refrigerator. If you are needing to bring a side dish to a summer picnic then this is the one you want to take. This is 5 stars all the way and one of the best recipes I’ve tried all year.