Recipes: Wilted Greens with Bacon Salad

• Prep Time:15 minutes
• Cook Time:5 minutes
• Serves:4

 

Tagged:
bacon, dry mustard, garlic, hard boiled eggs, mushrooms, red onion, red wine vinegar, romaine, spinach, spring mix, sugar,

Wilted Greens with Bacon Salad plays off the new trend toward charring or flash frying spinach, endive and other vegetables. This recipe is part of our Top Ten Sandwich & Salad Trends for 2015.

 

Foodie Byte

This salad is a great way to use up hard boiled eggs or some of that Spring mix that's starting to look a little past its prime!

Ingredients

5 strips bacon, cooked, rough chopped
1 small red onion, slivered
2 tablespoons garlic, fresh minced
¼ cup red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
½ teaspoon dry mustard
Kosher salt
Black pepper to taste
3 cups Romaine lettuce, sliced
3 cups Spring mix with spinach
1 cup sliced mushrooms
2 hard boiled eggs, sliced

Preparation

In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp, remove to paper towels, reserve bacon grease.
Add onion and garlic, sauté lightly, add red wine vinegar, sugar, dry mustard, salt and pepper and bring to a boil.
Remove from the heat and add greens, mushrooms, bacon and eggs.
Toss lightly until wilted, serve immediately.

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