Community Pick
Wilted spinach salad
photo by Probably This
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
directions
- Combine spinach, onions and eggs in a large salad bowl.
- Cook bacon in skillet until crispy; remove bacon and drain on paper towels.
- Pour off all but 3 tablespoons of bacon drippings.
- Add vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper to bacon drippings, heat to boiling, stirring to blend.
- Pour over spinach mixture; toss gently.
- Sprinkle with bacon.
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Reviews
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This is it. The real McCoy. If you are looking for the traditional recipe, here it is. This is delicious. I don't bother with measuring out the drippings from the bacon. I use it all. It also works well if the spinach is at room temp when you pour on the hot dressing. Some recipes indicate that you should heat the dressing in a large pan, then with the heat on stir in the spinach. Don't do it. The spinach will turn into something that looks like it came out of a can. Follow the recipe. It works.
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My husband thinks this is the best thing he's ever ate!!! I've made it twice and we love...love...love it!!! I put the little skillet from heating the dressing over the top of the bowl while I put everything on the table and it wilts great. The only thing I do different is I add the onion to the boiling dressing to make the onion sweeter. Thanks for a great recipe!
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Delicious and easy! I remember this salad being one of the first salads I liked as a kid. Thanks to this salad is probably why one of my favorite veggies is spinach. My mom made this often when she found out I liked it. I used sweet onions, and sautéed them in the bacon drippings, then added the vinegar, sugar, etc. Also added sliced mushrooms to the salad! Absolutely fantastic!
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Tweaks
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I used brown sugar instead of white, apple cider vinegar, 4 strips of bacon instead of 5, and 4 hard boiled eggs. I used 1/4 of a medium red onion and sauted it in the bacon grease before making the dressing, as raw onions are hard on my stomach. I used 12 oz of fresh harvested spinach from my organic gardening neighbor. The salad was delicious and my other half, who doesn't normally like sweet dressing gobbled it down. We had it with grilled burgers, but honestly, it would have been a meal by itself.
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This is a delicious wilted salad that brought back comforting memories of watching my grandma pour "bacon juice" over pretty luttuce and making it "mushy". If I only new then what I taste now!! Other than substituting purple onion for the green onion, I followed your recipe to the word and it was worth every step. Thanks for this great recipe! :)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Hey Jude
Winter, Wisconsin