Vegetarian Broccoli Salad

Ingredients

• 5 cups small broccoli florets
• 3/4 cup raisins
• 1/3 cup chopped red onion
• 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
• 1/2 stalk cilantro leaves
• 3 tbs olive oil
• 2 tbs honey

Directions
Soak raisins in water.

Blanch broccoli in boiling salted water, about 3 minutes until broccoli is bright green.  Drain hot water, run broccoli under cold water then thoroughly drain all water.

In a mixing bowl, combine cilantro, onion and broccoli.  In a separate bowl, mix olive oil and honey.  Combine broccoli mix with olive oil/honey dressing (if necessary add more olive oil/honey mixture to fully coat).  Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Just before serving, fold in the sunflower seeds.  Enjoy!

Submitted by Abdul-Raheem