Here is a salad recipe that is a little different. Years ago, a buddy gave it to me. I hope you enjoy it.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 6 slices bacon
- ½ cup sliced onion
- ¼ cup white wine vinegar
- ¼ cup water
- 4 teaspoons white sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 8 cups leaf lettuce – rinsed, dried and torn into bite-size pieces
- 8 radishes, thinly sliced
Instructions
- Place egg in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil; cover, remove from heat, and let egg stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.
- Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside. Reserve excess grease.
- Add onions to skillet with reserved grease and cook until tender. Add bacon, vinegar, water, sugar and salt. Stir and bring to boil.
- Place lettuce in a large bowl. Pour hot dressing over and toss well. Garnish with egg and radishes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 168 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 6 g |
| Cholesterol | 50 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 466 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
First time I made it I didn’t have white wine vinegar so I used what I had on hand, rice wine vinegar and white cooking wine and hubby and I LOVED it. The next day I bought white wine vinegar and made another batch and it was just as good. Love, love this dressing, so simple and yummy. Thanks Vera!
Absolutely delicious. Made per recipe, maybe a top ten is All Recipes for our family
This is a southern staple. It screams summertime. There is nothing like it!
Made this dressing in my Ninja Foodi. First air fried the bacon in the basket, then removed the bacon and basket and made the rest of it in the inner pot. Crumpledt the bacon and a sliced hardboiled egg over my big bowl of 50-50 lettuce/spinach, then poured the cooked dressing over it and tossed. Yum, just like I remembered.
This was very good! I did cut the sugar in half because I’m not very fond of sweet dressings. Also, I did not have any white wine vinegar so I used Apple cider vinegar instead. I think the next time I make this I will cut down on the water a little bit. I used a bag of spring greens as my salad greens and I omitted the radishes and added blue cheese crumbles. it was a delicious salad!
Good. A little sweet for my taste. Used ACV instead of wine vinegar because I only had ACV or balsamic. The adults liked but it was a new way to eat garden lettuce and the kids weren’t sure they liked it. The 8yo said, Um, Gramma, just so ya know, I think there’s something wrong with the dressing! LOL
I was looking for a bacon dressing similar to what my German mom-in-law made. I could recall the ingredients, but not all the portions. I came upon this recipe and decided to try it. Hubby gave it a two thumbs up. I added a teaspoon of cornstarch to thicken it up some and served it room temp not hot, as it wilts the lettuce…….said the whisper. Missing you my love.
I did not make this recipe exactly as I was only looking for the Hot Bacon Dressing. Years ago I made a spinach salad with a hot bacon dressing that was very similar to this one but I lost the recipe. I made the dressing exactly as written and it was great! The salad I made was with spinach, hard boiled eggs, radishes, mushrooms and pickled onions – it was perfect! It did make more than we needed so I may cut the recipe down some next time I make it.
Really good. I used a scant tsp of cornstarch to thicken up and boiled a few minutes. Lot’s compliments on the salad.
I substituted fresh spinach for half of the lettuce. This is a great way to use fresh lettuce and spinach from the garden. We really liked the radishes!
Very good.I added the bacon to the top of the salad right before serving.
This is delicious. I used scallions instead of onions but it made no difference, as far as I could tell. A big hit…
This recipe is perfect. In my teens and early 20’s I worked at a restaurant that was known for their spinach salad w/hot bacon dressing and this tastes just like it! It brought me back there! Thank you so much for posting!
The best! Absolutely, amazingly delicious!
Just like mom used to make, except she/I used apple cider vinegar, and definitely increase the amount of greens (I used baby spinach). Instead of sliced onions, I pulled green onions from my garden and added them fresh to the greens (not sauteed). The dressing was way too salty the first time I made it, so I decreased the amount to a rounded 1/4 teaspoon the next time. This dressing would also be great over arugula.
Nice taste, but this would NOT thicken on its own for me. I had to add cornstarch. Did you mean for the recipe to have some?
found this recipe after we received two huge heads of leaf lettuce in our CSA box this week. everything turned out great – hubby loved it. next time i will use less of the bacon grease.
Loved it! I used a spring mix for the greens and did everything else the same and it turned out amazing! I only made half the servings since we never finish that much salad, but I should have made the full amount because it was yuuuummmy!
I brought this to a Christmas party and the best compliment is when you are asked to send the recipe to a couple of people…very good!
This is a delicious salad that my Pennsylvania Dutch family has been eating for years!
Absolutely fabulous – but I used cider vinegar