Tequillaberry Salad

Submitted by LiisaN

"This salad is a copycat recipe from a Minneapolis restaurant that specilized in Prime Rib...the salad is sweet and salty and really great with a heavier meal."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• Dressing

• 1 cup Miracle Whip
• 1 cup Hellmann's mayonnaise
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoons milk

• Salad

• 2 heads lettuce
• 2 cups finely chopped cauliflower
• 2 bottles hormel real bacon bits
• 1 1⁄2 cups parmesan cheese

directions

1. Mix dressing ingredients together.
2. Cut lettuce into small pieces.
3. Cauliflower chops up easier if you just shred it from the whole head rather than breaking the flowers off separately.
4. Get ingredients all ready first, then toss just before serving.

Reviews

[airsparrow]

Pic looks nothing like the real thing. It is nothing at all like the original Tequilaberry's Restaurant salad dressing. I lived less than a mile from Tequilaberrys which was in Coon Rapids, MN, not Minneapolis.MN . My step-son was a manager there. We ate at their "prime rib room" upstairs dozens of times. That's where their famous dressing was served on salads. It was an all you can eat prime rib dinner place upstairs, for one price. Naturally, they fill you up with salad, their famous dressing, and breadsticks first. The base of the dressing was 1/2 good quality mayonnaise and 1/2 sour cream with a little sugar. It was not a sweet dressing at all! You use a food processor to grind up the cauliflower (there were no florets in the dressing and it wasn't lumpy whatsoever.) Add real bacon bits/pieces (usually 2 packs - from the grocery store.) That's what they used, and real shredded parmesan cheese (about 5 oz - or 1 tub.) Milk was added to thin the dressing down to a level that was able to be poured easily into a bowl of lettuce. It was the consistency of a pourable (not chunky) salad dressing, but with the added crunch of finely ground cauliflower, bacon and parmesan. They would literally pour it from a pitcher into your salad in front of you at the table. You were also offered croutons. The pepper grinder fellow followed close behind. They did use iceberg lettuce, but I prefer to use romaine. There were definitely no grapes or almonds whatsoever. If you had the original dressing, you would never have added the grapes and almonds, or apple cider vinegar that some variations add...It would ruin it entirely. If you weren't too stuffed, the prime rib was sliced thickly (served rare) and put on your plate with horseradish for dipping ...Delicious! I have many fond memories of that place. Particularly, that the all you can eat prime rib room cost about $20 per person w/o the tip. It was not a buffet type place. They had white tablecloths and cloth napkins in napkin rings. They didn't serve anything but the salad, the warm breadsticks, prime rib and a non-alcoholic drink. You could order a bar drink, but that was extra. The bar was on the main level at Tequilaberry's. This wasn't something they served downstairs in the main bar/restaurant.

 

[Cheryl S.]

This recipe has so many variations but the one and only 'original' recipe is the best. First, never use bacon bits. You must fry up bacon and crumble it. And only use Hellmanns dressing (no substitutes) with the sugar and milk. This salad is amazing when you make it like the original. And the original never had onions or peas.

 

[Nimz_]

This was a very nice and easy to put together salad. I didn't much care for the dressing as I thought it was way to sweet for us. I did add a little onion but other than that made as directed. Thanks for sharing.

 

[gdmajoni]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I ate at Tequilaberry's many years ago and have NEVER forgotten the salad. This tastes just like it. I am so glad I came across this. I will make it often.

 

[Chef ladyinblue3]

Made a huge batch of this for a large dinner party. Everyone loved the salad. I did cut the amount of salad dressing I made down otherwise I would have had quite a bit of leftover dressing.