Wilted Lettuce Salad
This is a fun change from the usual crisp salad but remember it’s wilted – not cooked.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Salad
Ingredients
Scale
- 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
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
Keywords: wilted lettuce, lettuce salad, bacon
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