The flavors in this Spinach & Bacon Salad with Homemade Tarragon dressing are powerful and perfectly complement each other. The salty bacon, the tangy blue cheese, the punch of the Tarragon essential oil in the homemade vinaigrette with some spicy mustard and bacon drippings. Are you drooling yet? You will be as you go to take the first bite of this amazing salad!
If you’ve never made a warm bacon vinaigrette and poured it over a salad that is packed full of other powerful and complementary flavors, you are missing out on a very important thing in life.
Warm bacon vinaigrette over a spinach salad should definitely be on your food bucket list. And you should cross that one off as soon as you possibly can!
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Ingredients
- 1 lb. clamshell baby spinach leaves
- 8 slices cooked bacon crumbled with 3 Tbsp drippings reserved
- 1 small red onion thinly sliced
- 4 hard boiled eggs sliced
- 3 oz. crumbled blue cheese
Dressing
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp spicy brown or Dijon mustard [5]
- 3 Tbsp red wine vinegar [6]
- 1 to 2 drops Tarragon essential oil
- Pinch of salt and pepper
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, toss the baby spinach, crumbled bacon, thinly sliced red onion, hard boiled egg slices and crumbled blue cheese.
- In a resealable glass container, add 3 Tbsp warm bacon drippings with the sugar, spicy or Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, Tarragon oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Shake vigorously and taste. Add 1 more drop of Tarragon, if desired.
- Pour the Tarragon Vinaigrette over the salad.
- Serve Spinach & Bacon Salad with Homemade Tarragon Vinaigrette for lunch or as side salad with dinner.