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How to Make Simple Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

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Ingredients
 

For the Salad:

  • 6 cups fresh baby spinach washed and dried
  • 3 hard-boiled eggs sliced
  • 8 slices of bacon
  • 1 small red onion thinly sliced
  • Optional additions: sliced mushrooms halved cherry tomatoes, crumbled blue cheese

For the Warm Bacon Dressing:

  • 3 tablespoons bacon fat reserved from cooking the bacon
  • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons sugar or to taste
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Prepare the Ingredients:

  • Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove the bacon from the skillet, and let it drain on paper towels. Crumble the bacon once cooled. Reserve the bacon fat for the dressing.
  • Hard-boil the eggs, cool, peel, and slice them. Set aside.

Make the Warm Bacon Dressing:

  • In the same skillet with about 3 tablespoons of reserved bacon fat, add the red wine vinegar, sugar, and Dijon mustard.
  • Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the sugar is dissolved and the dressing is heated through. Season with salt and pepper.

Assemble the Salad:

  • In a large salad bowl, combine the fresh spinach, sliced red onion, and any other salad additions you chose (mushrooms, tomatoes, blue cheese).
  • Pour the warm dressing over the spinach and toss gently to coat. The heat from the dressing will slightly wilt the spinach.

Add Bacon and Eggs:

  • Add the crumbled bacon and sliced eggs over the top of the salad.

Serve:

  • Serve immediately while the dressing is still warm.