Wilted Lettuce Salad

The theme for Monday Posts in June is Salads.

All types of salads – although there are only 4 Mondays we shall try for variety.

The only similarity is that they will be ‘side’ salads, rather than main course salads. Those will come later.

You can find more Lettuce & Vegetable Salads and / or Pasta & Grain Salads by clicking the links.

The first salad is one my mother made often when the lettuce was getting past its prime. She only planted Black-Seeded Simpson, which is a leaf lettuce – meaning it does not form heads.

I make it with whatever I have on hand.

The last leaves added to the skillet will be less wilted than the first…. It works out.

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Wilted Lettuce Salad

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This is a fun change from the usual crisp salad but remember it’s wilted – not cooked.

• Author: Kate
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 20 minutes
• Yield: 2 servings 1x
• Category: Salad

Ingredients

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• 8oz (250gr) leaf lettuce, or other lettuce
• 2 tbs fresh dill weed (leaves), chopped
• 3oz (90gr) bacon, chopped
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1/4 cup (2oz, 60gr) cider vinegar
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 tsp olive oil

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Instructions

• Pile lettuce up and cut it 3 or 4 times with a large knife.
• Heat oil in a very large skillet.
• Add onion, bacon and fry until bacon is crisp.
• Add vinegar, sugar, and heat just until sugar dissolves.
• Remove skillet from heat, add lettuce and dill. It may not all fit at first.
• Using a tongs or 2 forks, carefully turn and toss the lettuce, coating it with the vinegar / bacon mixture.
• Add more lettuce as the lettuce in the skillet wilts down, until it’s all added.
• Give it one final toss, serve and eat immediately.

Notes

If you don’t have a kitchen scale – basically you want enough lettuce for 4 salads. You will look at it and think it’s way too much.  You will be wrong. It will wilt down to a perfect salad for two.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1/2 recipe
• Calories: 270
• Sugar: 5.2 g
• Sodium: 319.1 mg
• Fat: 21.7 g
• Saturated Fat: 6.3 g
• Trans Fat: 0.1 g
• Carbohydrates: 11.6 g
• Fiber: 2.6 g
• Protein: 7.9 g
• Cholesterol: 27.7 mg

That’s it!