Wilted Lettuce | Summertime Salad Recipes
Wilted Lettuce amongst Hot Bacon Dressing is i of those things that I've seen at our family's dinner tabular array my entire life. All of the adults would drool over it in addition to rave well-nigh how heavenly it was. I hated it (though I had never tried it). Bacon fat? On a salad? Sick.
I didn't essay it until I lived amongst Pops (my grandpa) in addition to his wife, Mary Carol, for a brief stint later college. Every black Mary Carol in addition to I would come upwards domicile from move in addition to Pops would convey a small-scale feast waiting for us... commonly fried chicken, grilled pork chops, spaghetti in addition to meatballs, corn on the cob amongst a stick of butter- all of the skillful stuff. Early inward the Summer he would brand Wilted Lettuce.
Normally I would non convey fifty-fifty tried it - I had known for years that it was something I never liked, but for some argue every bit a invitee inward their domicile I didn't experience similar I could plough downward dinner. So I tried it. And loved it. I asked him what was inward it- he assured me I didn't desire to know, every bit Mary Carol in addition to I were constantly requesting healthier dinner options. He was right! The gene listing may appear strange, but y'all volition beloved the result- salty, sweet, crispy bacon amongst fresh greens in addition to onions.
Some purists would country that y'all tin laissez passer notice entirely brand "wilted lettuce" amongst garden lettuce inward the Summer, but I become far all yr long amongst foliage lettuce from the market.
Wilted Lettuceamongst Hot Bacon Dressing
1 caput of foliage lettuce
1/4 loving cup of greenish onions, sliced
1/4 loving cup of cerise onion, sliced thinly (optional)
five slices of bacon, chopped into 1/2" pieces
1/4 loving cup of sugar
1/4 loving cup of white vinegar
Chop the bacon into small-scale pieces (about 1/2 inch). Fry on a lot heat, rendering the fatty in addition to crisping upwards the bacon. After well-nigh 4-5 minutes, plough off the heat.
Add the saccharide to the bacon fatty in addition to pour into a drinking glass bowl or pourable measurement cup. Wash lettuce in addition to chop greenish onions, set inward a bowl. Add vinegar to dressing, making certain it isn't likewise hot, or it volition splatter. The salad is laid upwards to become - only toss amongst the dressing correct earlier taking to the table.
If y'all are making it ahead of time, proceed the dressing separate. Microwave the dressing for 20-30 seconds, stir, thus pour it over the lettuce, bacon in addition to onions only earlier serving.
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