Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and Avocado puts a lemony twist on the traditional lettuce salad with hot bacon dressing.

Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and Avocado

By Sue Lau |  Palatable Pastime

Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and Avocado is my recipe of the day with the blogging group Improv Cooking Challenge. Each month we gather to create recipes using  two unique ingredients.

This month the challenge was to combine lemon  and lettuce. My  first thoughts were to the obvious salads.

And since it is Spring and I craved veggies, then yes! But with the pandemic I needed to get something I felt comfortable with someone else picking out, so I ordered some bagged baby spinach, iceberg lettuce, a carton of cherry tomatoes and some avocados.

I always have bacon anyway. I think there might be a law about that.

The onions I had from another shopping trip- and would need to use those up anyway. I will often shop for those and things like cilantro and parsley. With leaf lettuces I like to pick those myself- but recently opted for some bag mixes.

If there wasn’t a health emergency going on, I might avoid those as they contain antioxidants and I would rather skip  that if I could. But times being what they are, I acquiesced.

Improv  Cooking  Challenge

Lemon and Lettuce

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  Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon & Avocado

  Bill  and  I ate this at home for lunch as a main dish salad sort of thing. He has been working on his laptop recently. There was extra as the two of us couldn’t finish all of that even as a meal.

  It won’t keep until later so if you don’t need this much, cut the recipe.

  

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    Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and Avocado

    

    Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and Avocado

    Sue Lau

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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins

    Cook Time 10 minutes mins

    Course Salads

    Cuisine American

    Ingredients

      

    Salad:

    • 6 strips thick bacon
    • 6 ounces baby spinach leaves
    • 4 ounces iceberg lettuce shredded
    • 1 cup chopped scallions
    • 1/2 cup sliced cherry tomatoes
    • 2 ripe avocados chopped

    Hot Dressing:

    • 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
    • 1/4 cup bacon drippings
    • 4 teaspoons granulated sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
    • 1/2 teaspoon cornstarch

    Instructions

     

    • Cook bacon until crisp; cool and crumble or chop.
    • Toss spinach and lettuce in a mixing bowl with chopped scallions.
    • Drain off all bacon grease except one-fourth cup; whisk in the lemon juice, sugar, mustard, salt, pepper and cornstarch.
    • Heat dressing to a boil, whisking, then pour over salad and toss.
    • Add tomatoes, avocado and crumbled bacon and toss again.
    • Serve at once.

    Notes

    From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

    Keyword spinach salad, wilted lettuce, wilted salad

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