Spinach salad with hot bacon dressing is an easy spinach salad with bacon, tomatoes, eggs drenched in a warm dressing that has a mixture of tangy sweetness and salty from the bacon.
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How do you get your meat and potato loving family members to eat spinach? Add bacon of course! And not only do you add bacon to the salad, but add it to the dressing too. Spinach salad with hot bacon dressing is a simple salad that even picky salad eaters can't help but try a bite or two.
Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing
I am becoming obsessed with hot bacon dressing. Obsessed.
And both began with frying bacon.
For a salad that uses a pound of baby spinach, I use a pound of bacon. That is a one to one ratio people. We take our bacon very seriously.
And our bacon grease very seriously. Save that stuff when you are done frying up your bacon. I pour the bacon grease through a strainer that is lined with a coffee filter to help clean out any grit or burnt pieces.
The dressing starts with a third to a half cup of bacon grease. Then add red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, finely diced onion and garlic, sugar, salt and pepper.
Whisk together and add a ¼ cup of water.
The salad portion that I use is just baby spinach, tomatoes, red onions, and tomatoes.
I add hard boiled eggs to the top of my salad. Need some tips on easy peel eggs? I will let you in on my secret to easy to peel hard-boiled eggs. drizzle the warm dressing over top.
Divinely flavorful "diet" low-carb, keto food.
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Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing
A quick and easy salad with a warm dressing that has a mixture of tangy sweetness and salty from the bacon.
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Ingredients
Spinach Salad
Hot Bacon Dressing
- ½ cup bacon grease
- ½ cup red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons Dijon mustard
- ¼ red onion finely diced
- 2-3 garlic cloves finely diced
- ½ teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup bacon crumbles from salad
Instructions
Pour spinach into a large bowl. Top with Salad toppings except for eggs.
Serve salad in individual bowls. Serve salad topped with eggs and drizzled with dressing.
Dressing
Pour ⅓ cup warm bacon grease through a coffee filter lined strainer into 2 or 4 cup measuring cup.
Add vinegar, mustard, sugar, salt and pepper.
Saute onions and garlic for 1-2 minutes in a tablespoon of bacon grease. Add onion and garlic to the mixture of bacon grease and vinegar.
Whisk together. Add a splash of water ifit needs to be thinned a bit.
Add bacon crumbles and stir before drizzling over salad.
What is on your plate this week? I am eating everything topped with bacon dressing:)
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A working mom of two very active teenagers. My husband and I gave up running the 80-cow dairy farm that also included a couple of hundred acres of corn and soybeans to both work to support the agricultural industry. We still have about 20 head of dairy heifers and cows to help my kids appreciate the effort it takes to raise livestock. I consider myself a foodie as I love cooking and experimenting with recipes. My family just wishes I would make the same thing twice. Find my other blog, FarmWifeDrinks.com for all things co*cktails.
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Diane
How can you go wrong with bacon dressing? lovely salad.
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Miz Helen
Your salad looks awesome! Thanks for hosting!
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Jessica (Scratch Mommy)
You had me at BACON! 🙂 Can't wait to make this dressing...yum!
Thanks for hosting this party. I'm glad to have found your blog! I added my receipt for Crock Pot Chicken (the WHOLE chicken). I hope you enjoy!
Thanks again,
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April @ Angel's Homestead
Love this! I'd like to invite you to link up to Saturday Spotlight @ Angels Homestead.
http://angelshomestead.com/saturday-spotlight-5/
Hope to see you there 🙂
April
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Linda (The Contessa)
Thanks for hosting. I brought over a casserole we made. Spicy Sloppy Joe Cornbread. It was so good. I like spicy food. We're having a party at Tumbleweed Contessa and your Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing would be my favorite. My mom used to make this. I hadn't thought of it in a long time. Thanks for sharing. http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog/whatd-you-do-this-weekend-4/
Hope to see you there,
Linda (The Contessa) 🙂
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Lana Wallpe
LOVE this salad. I even sneak in some strawberries when I can find them in good condition off season.
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Tumbleweed Contessa
One of my favorite ways to enjoy spinach. I am featuring this at my Weekly Rays of Sunshine: http://www.tumbleweedcontessa.com/blog/weekly-rays-of-sunshine-18/
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Michelle
Would you be able to replace the sugar with stevia or Splenda?
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Maryann
I grew up on this dressing. Wilted lettuce salad is what grandma called it. She kept some of the grease in the skillet and added (somewhere around) equal amt of vinegar and heated it back up then poured it over leaf letttuce, sliced radishes and green onions. Your recipe is similar to my sister in laws only hers had sliced apples added.
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Kris
Absolutely delicious! Added a pinch more salt and chopped up some apples to add to the salad. Definitely a keeper.Reply
Shana
If you like cold bacon grease then this is the dressing for you.. the grease separates and has a film on all the salad..Reply
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