Wedge Salad with Bacon and Blue Cheese Vinaigrette
This crisp and refreshing wedge salad is made with iceberg lettuce, juicy tomatoes, crispy bacon, and drizzled with a garlicky blue cheese vinaigrette.
Ingredients
- 1 head iceberg lettuce (quartered into large wedges)
- 1 cup cherry tomato halved
- 1 small red onion (thinly sliced)
- 6 lices Bacon cooked
Garlicky Blue Cheese Vinaigrette
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- ½ teaspoon chili flakes (optional)
- black pepper to taste
- salt to taste
- 4 ounces blue cheese (crumbled)
Instructions
- Place iceberg lettuce wedges on a large platter and scatter with sliced onion, tomatoes and bacon pieces.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the first seven ingredients of the garlicky blue cheese vinaigrette (everything but the blue cheese.) Once emulsified, stir in the blue cheese crumbles before drizzling over the wedge salad to serve.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 4 Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 376
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1wedge | |
| Calories | 376kcal | 19% |
| Carbohydrates | 19g | 6% |
| Protein | 12g | 24% |
| Fat | 29g | 45% |
| Saturated Fat | 11g | 55% |
| Cholesterol | 43mg | 14% |
| Sodium | 680mg | 28% |
| Potassium | 465mg | 10% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 14g | 28% |
| Vitamin A | 1149IU | 23% |
| Vitamin C | 20mg | 22% |
| Calcium | 184mg | 18% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.