BLT Salad
Gluten Free Living – 2016
BLT Salad is one of the best salads I’ve ever eaten. We LOVED this fabulous salad and served it with a homemade Creamy Parmesan Dressing and Homemade Gluten Free Croutons. The result was spectacular and it’s really very easy to make too. I crisp fried some of my favorite applewood smoked bacon, added butter bliss lettuce, two kinds of tomatoes, parmesan cheese, the croutons and the dressing. It is SO good and you can use it for either a main dish salad or side salad–whichever you prefer.
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Back in October we had friends over for dinner that we were trying to get together with for months. I served this salad with the homemade dressing and croutons. I kept everything gluten free because I was trying to eat as little gluten as possible. Although I served this as a side salad with Steaks, baked sweet potatoes, Roasted Italian Tomatoes and Fudgy Brownie Cookies, the salad and the tomatoes were the big hit of the dinner. Everyone ate two servings of this salad and the tomatoes and ate much smaller portions of the meat and sweet potatoes!
BLT Salad is delightful especially if you enjoy BLT Sandwiches. This is just a greater version of it! If you’re looking for a fantastic salad to serve company, or you just enjoy eating salads and don’t mind eating bacon (they do make it without nitrates and preservatives these days), then you’ve got to give BLT Salad a try. I guarantee you won’t have hardly any leftovers because everyone will keep going back for more!
BLT Salad with Creamy Parmesan Dressing and Homemade Gluten Free Croutons is spectacular!
Stir Creamy Parmesan Dressing into salad, toss with croutons and enjoy!
BLT Salad is wonderful served as a side or main dish salad. Use turkey bacon if you can’t eat pork.
This is a great salad to serve company too.
Here’s what I did.
I used these ingredients plus parmesan cheese.
Layer butter bliss lettuce in a very large salad bowl. Add grape tomatoes, yellow sunburst tomatoes, parmesan cheese, crisp-fried bacon and Homemade Gluten Free Croutons.
(Unless you are going to be serving immediately, don’t add croutons. Cover salad and refrigerate. Leave croutons out on the counter until ready to serve). I also recommend breaking the bacon into one to two-inch pieces as it’s much easier to eat that way–especially if you’re eating a thick-sliced bacon like this.
BLT Salad will soon become one of your faves. It’s THAT good! While I didn’t break the bacon pieces into one-to two-inch pieces before serving. I recommend it as it’s easier to eat the bacon that way.
The combination of flavors–especially adding parmesan cheese to the salad and to the dressing is phenomenal.
We couldn’t get enough of this fantastic salad. It’s like having a BLT Sandwich but in salad form. Yum!
Here’s the recipe.
BLT SALAD
(Recipe adapted from Natasha’s Kitchen)
BLT Salad
Equipment
- 1 large salad bowl with tongs
- 1 sharp knife to cut vegetables
- 1 large skillet to fry bacon
- measuring cups
Ingredients
- 3 6-oz. bags butter bliss lettuce (or your favorite kind of lettuce)
- 10 oz. container grape tomaotes halved
- 10 oz. container yellow sunburst tomatoes halved
- 16 oz. thick sliced applewood smoked bacon crisp fried, broken into one-two inch pieces
- 1 cup parmesan cheese shredded
- 2 cups homemade croutons or your favorite croutons
- 1 batch Creamy Parmesan Dressing
Instructions
- Cook bacon and set aside.
- Layer salad, tomatoes and parmesan cheese in salad bowl.
- Add cooked bacon pieces.
- Toss with Creamy Parmesan Dressing before serving.
- Garnish with homemade croutons.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Natasha's Kitchen.
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Nutrition
BLT Salad is mouthwatering!
If you enjoy Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches, you’ll love this amazing salad!
This crunchy salad is glorious! You can also use constellation cherry tomatoes which have many different colors.
You can make this salad even easier by using regular croutons and your favorite salad dressing.
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BLT Salad
Equipment
- 1 large salad bowl with tongs
- 1 sharp knife to cut vegetables
- 1 large skillet to fry bacon
- measuring cups
Ingredients
- 3 6-oz. bags butter bliss lettuce (or your favorite kind of lettuce)
- 10 oz. container grape tomaotes halved
- 10 oz. container yellow sunburst tomatoes halved
- 16 oz. thick sliced applewood smoked bacon crisp fried, broken into one-two inch pieces
- 1 cup parmesan cheese shredded
- 2 cups homemade croutons or your favorite croutons
- 1 batch Creamy Parmesan Dressing
Instructions
- Cook bacon and set aside.
- Layer salad, tomatoes and parmesan cheese in salad bowl.
- Add cooked bacon pieces.
- Toss with Creamy Parmesan Dressing before serving.
- Garnish with homemade croutons.