[Marie Callendars Hot Bacon Dressing
Jamar Lizarraga
Spinach salad, when made in the classic steak house style, has tender baby spinach, fresh mushrooms, sliced onion, crisp bacon, and hard boiled eggs. A warm bacon vinaigrette is drizzled over the top, slightly wilting the spinach leaves.
The short answer is no. BUT, you can prep all the components ahead of time. The assembly will take just minutes to throw together. You can hard boil the eggs, fry the bacon, and slice the onions ahead of time. Store all the ingredients in covered containers in the fridge. Buying a package of pre-washed baby spinach will also save time. With the reserved bacon fat, make the vinaigrette. Heat the bacon dressing just before serving.
I like cooking bacon in the oven and retaining the bacon drippings for the salad. By using a wire rack resting on top of a jellyroll pan, the bacon drippings end up in the bottom of the pan so you can easily use them.
Growing up, my great-grandmother would serve up a wilted salad with a hot bacon dressing over whatever lettuce was in season. This salad was served up during the spring and summer. The flavor of the bacon dressing was out of this world when drizzled over a pile of greens.
This recipe is perfect for salad greens that are a little bitter. Often this salad is made with spinach (the classic), but you can use romaine or iceberg lettuce. It also works well with baby kale or even dandelion leaves early in the spring when the plants are small and the leaves are not too bitter.
The best way to freeze salad dressing is to make it into ice cubes. When the cubes are completely frozen, pop them out, place them in a freezer bag, press out the air, seal, and return to the freezer.
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I grew up eating this delicious dressing. Another green we ate it over was Dandelion. Early in spring when the plants are small and the leaves are not too bitter it is a perfect combination. Thank you for this recipe, my Grandmother passed away several years ago and it just brought back the most wonderful memories.
This is one of my favorite salads and I regularly buy already washed baby spinach from Aldi so I can have a spinach salad at a moments notice. But to have a classic spinach salad you have to have all the components: spinach, red onions, fresh mushrooms, hard boiled eggs and of course crunchy bacon. What a great combination.
You also need a good hot bacon salad dressing to make it a wilted spinach salad. So I made a low carb version using sugar free maple syrup. This keto hot bacon dressing recipe is now my quick and easy, go to spinach salad dressing because it only takes a few minutes to make and tastes so good.
That being said feel free to add cucumbers, radishes, peppers, olives, avocado or whatever you want. You could also try adding some nuts like walnuts or pecans. Also cheese like, goat cheese, blue cheese or feta cheese would work well.
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