Wilted Spinach Salad
Spinach salad is often overlooked and is a wonderful besides healthy alternative to other greens--even if you don't like cooked spinach --how good it is as a salad might just suprise you! Also spinich is one of your least expensive salad greens.
List of Ingredients
- Bacon--2 to 3 strips per side serving salad
- Spinach--packaged baby spinich is the most tender and saves washing
- Bermuda (red) onion
- Hard boiled egg-about 1/2 to 1 per serving depending on size
- Salt and fresh ground pepper
- Balsamic Vinegar--slight bit more than bacon oil
- Sugar 1/4 tsp or so per serving
- splash of brandy per serving
Instructions
- Dice bacon and render over low medium heat
- Remove rendered bacon bits and drain --leaving bacon fat in pan
- Just before serving time--reheat oil to medium high
- In bowl add thinly sliced red onion and chopped hard boiled egg to spinach as well as rendered bacon bits
- Lower heat and lifting pan from burner add balsamic to portion just slightly more than amount of oil and return to burner.
- Add sugar to taste--about 1/4 tsp per 1 1/2 tbsp oil Salt and pepper to taste
- Finally add a small amount of brandy bring to boiling point and turn off heat
- Add enough dressing to salad to to coast well--toss and cover bowl for a couple minutes-to allow some wilting of spinach from heat Note: salad will stil be crispy
Final Comments
Slightly larger serving with bread or some othe side makes a wonderful light summer dinner or brunch or anytime lunch. For those who shy away from bacon fat--you can do the recipe and use only a samll amount of the bacon rendering fat and replace the rest with olive oil--it's still very good--but for the ultimate flavor jolt use the bacon fat.
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