Killed salad
From notyourmomma 16 years ago
- 25 minutes to make
- Serves 6
AKA Wilted Salad. Mom made this with a combination of greens and I still do. We double the baked bacon because a lot of it disappears in the making. You're lucky if you have enough to sprinkle over your greens.
Ingredients
- 8 to 12 slices of thick sliced smokey bacon (use the butcher's cut) shopping list
- 2 tablespoons of brown sugar shopping list
- 1 tablespoon of ball park variety mustard shopping list
- dash of apple cider vinegar shopping list
- Rendered bacon fat and enough salad oil to equal 1/2 cup shopping list
- 2 shallots minced (or one small onion and one garlic clove) shopping list
- 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar shopping list
- 1 beaten egg shopping list
- 1 1/2 tablespoon of brown sugar shopping list
- salt and fresh ground black pepper shopping list
- 12 cups of mixed greens (I like romaine, iceburg, green leaf mix) shopping list
- Generous handful of garlicky croutons shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- On a cookie sheet with sides (covered with foil for easy clean up) layer the bacon in a single layer.
- Bake about 8 to 10 minutes
- Pour off rendered fat and reserve for the dressing.
- Mix brown sugar, mustard and cider vinegar.
- Using pastry brush, baste the bacon.
- Cook another 5 minutes.
- Turn over baste with remaining sugar/mustard mix.
- Bake for another 3 to 5 minutes, Watch carefully here, the bacon can burn easily here.
- Cool and hide from the family snackers.
- Meanwhile, in a small skillet, heat reserved bacon fat and oil.
- Saute shallots (or onion and garlic) til soft but not brown.
- Mix vinegar, egg and sugar.
- Stir mightily to dissolve the sugar.
- Season with a pinch of salt and lots of ground pepper.
- Add to hot fat and cook over very low heat and make sure the sugar is completely dissoved and the dressing thickens.
- Place the mixed greens in a large salad bowl.
- Pour hot dressing over the greens. (There, you've killed the salad)
- Sprinkle with crumbled cooked glazed bacon pieces and croutons.
- Toss and serve, hot or at room temperature.
The Rating
Reviewed by 2 people-
this is an awesome salad....have had it many times growing up.....thanks
paprikamama
in Lake Mary loved it
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