Cook bacon strips on your stovetop until they’re cooked to a crisp. Let the bacon strips cool before chopping them into bacon bits. Don’t undercook the bacon or else it will be too chewy to cut into bits. It doesn’t make a difference if you use pre-sliced bacon or bacon cut from a slab. Add your bacon bits to a large mixing bowl.
Use a cheese grater to grate a head of broccoli until you yield the weight listed in the ingredients. For this recipe, it’s better to start grating at the core and working your way up instead of grating the head first. Add the grated broccoli to the mixing bowl along with the coleslaw mix. At your discretion, you could also use fresh green cabbage instead of coleslaw mix. Add black pepper and mix the ingredients together.
Finally, mix together mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped green onion. Mix the dressing into the mixing bowl until your coleslaw is complete. If you used raw green cabbage for the coleslaw, you can serve immediately. If you used bagged coleslaw, you may wish to marinate the coleslaw in your refrigerator for 30-60 minutes, or even overnight. Serve cold.