Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon and Red Onions
Recipe: #3381
December 06, 2011
Categories: Salads, Main Dish Salad, Side Dishes, Onions, Spinach, Baby Shower, Brunch, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, Sunday Dinner, Gluten-Free, Low Carbohydrate, Non-Dairy, more
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Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (201.8 g)
- Calories 293.5
- Total Fat - 21.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.8 g
- Cholesterol - 184.4 mg
- Sodium - 902 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 7.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.1 g
- Sugars - 2.7 g
- Protein - 17.6 g
- Calcium - 109 mg
- Iron - 3.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 22.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place the spinach in a large bowl.
Step 2
Fry the bacon in a non-stick skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 5 minutes. Transfer to paper towel and pour off all but 4 tablespoons of bacon fat.
Step 3
Add olive oil to bacon fat and return to medium heat until shimmering. Add onions, garlic sugar, salt and pepper and cook until onions are soft, about 3 minutes
Step 4
Turn off the heat and pour in the vinegar, them immediately pour over the spinach and toss to wilt. Place salad on serving plates and garnish with bacon and hard boiled eggs.
Tips
No special items needed.