Warm Bacon Dressing
From divaliscious 16 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Easy to make and oh so delicious, I perfected this recipe after craving and recreating it from a local fave restaurant. This one does not call for cornstarch as I have seen elsewhere - I have made this one for years. Read more ..It's a simple twist on my Balsamic Salad Dressing - this one obviously goes great over spinach salad. See less
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon - thick sliced is best shopping list
- 1 small onion-diced shopping list
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard shopping list
- 1 tablespoon grainy Dijon mustard shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper shopping list
- 1 cup olive oil shopping list
- 1/3-1/2 cup apple cider vinegar shopping list
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar shopping list
- juice of one lemon (2-3 tablespoons) shopping list
- 3 cloves garlic - minced shopping list
- 3 tablespoons honey shopping list
- 5 tablespoons mayonnaise shopping list
- ****Equipment Needed: shopping list
- Skillet, bowls, whisk, slotted spoon, One naked salad needing awesomely homemade hot bacon salad dressing shopping list
How to make it
- The first trick when making this salad dressing dish, is not to overcook your bacon nor cook it too fast.
- Slice up bacon into 3/4" inch pieces
- In skillet, and add one tablespoon of olive oil into cold skillet.
- Place cold bacon in cold skillet.
- Turn on heat to medium - and let bacon slowly crisp on.
- If bacon fat, while cooking, is spattering onto your stove top, you are cooking the bacon too fast. Cooking bacon on medium and not high heat is best.
- Stir on occasion to turn bacon pieces over so they can brown evenly.
- While bacon is cooking, dice up onions and mince garlic.
- In separate bowl, add minced garlic, mayonnaise, mustard, honey and salt and pepper. Measure vinegars and add to bowl.
- With whisk, stir to incorporate well.
- Slowly with stirring with whisk, add olive oil very slowly stirring all the while to make an emulsion. Using a blender might make this step easier for some.
- Once bacon is crisp and cooked, using a slotted spoon, remove bacon and set aside.
- Remove most of bacon fat, reserving roughly three tablespoons of bacon in skillet.
- Wipe sides of skillet of any dripped bacon fat before returning to stove.
- Keeping heat on a medium to medium-low, add onions and let become translucent - maybe five minutes time.
- Turn heat off. Slowly add vinegar and oil mixture, the skillet will still be hot and mixture may bubble on you.
- Turn heat back on and let simmer (not boil) for three minutes.
- Let hot dressing cool 5-10 minutes before adding to salads, in case you do not wish to "cook" or wilt your salad greens - it will still be warm.
- Right before using salad dressing, add your bacon back to the salad dressing. And voila, add over your favorite salad.
The Rating
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I love bacon dressing, thanks for the great post.
henrie
in Savannah loved it
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Lovely. Thanks Diva.
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