Warm Bacon Spinach Salad
Author: Food Musings
Recipe type: Entree
Prep time:
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Serves: 6
- 4 cups of loosely packed spinach leaves, prepared for safe consumption
- 2 large eggs, hard boiled and chopped
- 1 small red onion, sliced
- ⅓ c dried cranberries
- 8 strips of bacon, chopped
- 4 T bacon fat
- 4 T red wine vinegar
- 1 T maple syrup
- 1 T Dijon mustard
- Prepare and place spinach, eggs, onions and cranberries in salad bowl.
- Cook bacon until crispy (fried or baked).
- Retain 4 T of bacon drippings as your remove the bacon from the pan.
- Blot with paper towel, after a quick spray at the sink with very hot water.
- Place bacon in salad bowl.
- Whisk together the dressing ingredients.
- Adjust with pepper (salt is likely redundant)
- Pour over top of salad just before serving.
- If time has passed and the dressing starts to solidify, simply place in the mic for a minute.
- The hot bacon fat with make the spinach wilt a wee bit-that is what you are going for.
Recipe by Food Musings at http://foodmusings.ca/recipes/entrees/warm-bacon-spinach-salad/
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