Blue Cheese Chopped Salad
Bring the Steak House Classic Home
This salad is ADDICTING. Blue Cheese Chopped Salad has all the flavors and textures you are looking for like salty bacon, sweet and savory creamy blue cheese dressing, nutty, toasted sesame seeds, crisp red onions, and blue cheese crumble. Thinly sliced ribbons of sweet romaine make this the perfect salad that you are looking for on a summer day.
The full, printable recipe is at the end of this post on a convenient recipe card. This dish is so simple but I will offer a few tips you’ll want to read to make sure your salad is the best it can be.
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Light Tasting Oil
I recommend using an avocado oil for this dressing.
In the olden days I would suggest using a vegetable oil, but there are lots of feeling about vegetable oil these days. I already get enough angry messages about rinsing my pasta for pasta salad.
Any oil that has minimal flavor is fine. Do not use an olive oil for this dressing, however, as the taste will be too overwhelming.
Sugar
This salad calls for 2/3 cup of white sugar. This helps temper the flavor of the blue cheese and the vinegar.
You do not use a lot of dressing for this salad, so the sugar in each serving is minimal. If you have very big feelings about sugar, feel free to adjust the amount to your preference.
If you want, you can also experiment with sugar alternatives though I can’t vouch for them. Let me know how that experiment goes if you try it, but please keep your messages as sweet as the sugar you’re avoiding!
This dressing is DECADENT and delicious the way I make it, however, so I highly suggest you try it according to my recipe specifications if you can.
Bring the steakhouse experience home by pairing this salad with perfectly prepared filet mignon.
Blue Cheese Chopped Salad
This salad is ADDICTING. Blue cheese chopped salad has all the flavors and textures you are looking for in a salad. Salty bacon, sweet and savory creamy blue cheese dressing, nutty, toasted sesame seeds, crisp red onions and blue cheese crumble. Thinly sliced ribbons of sweet romaine make this the perfect salad that you are looking for on a Summer day.
Ingredients
- 3 heads of romaine lettuce, washed, dried and sliced in thin ribbons
- 1 medium sized red onion, finely diced
- 2 ounces of sesame seeds, toasted
- 1/2 lb of bacon, cooked crisp and finely diced
- crumbled blue cheese (approximately 4 ounces, (2 ounces for the dressing and however much you want to use to top the salad)
- 2/3 cup of white sugar
- 1 cup of white wine vinegar
- 1.5 cups of mild salad oil, I used avocado oil (olive oil will be too strong for this)
- 1 tablespoon of salt
Instructions
- Wash your romaine lettuce really well, dry the lettuce, cut into very think ribbons, you can also chop this after. You want bite size bites, not large chunks. You may want to use a salad spinner. I lined a bowl with paper towels and let the lettuce air out in the fridge for an hour to remove as much moisture as possible.
- Cook your bacon in a skillet, When the bacon is cooked, remove and drain on a plate with paper towels. Carefully wipe out the pan of bacon grease, leave a tiny amount and add your sesame seeds. Toast low and slow. Stir often, These toast up quickly, so make sure they do not burn. They seem like they are taking forever to toast, then all of a sudden they get very toasted quickly. Let the sesame seeds cool completely before adding to the salad.
- Chop up the bacon into small bite sized pieces. Also let this cool completely before adding to salad.
- Crumble the blue cheese, you can use as much or as little as you prefer for the salad topping. Reserve two ounces for the dressing.
- In a blender, add the oil, sugar, salt, vinegar and the 2 ounces of blue cheese and blend well. You can use the dressing right away, but it tastes better if it sits overnight. You can also store this dressing in the fridge in a jar for up to two weeks. *it won't last that long though
- To serve the salad, toss the romaine with the bacon, sesame seeds and onion. I leave the dressing and the blue cheese on the side. But if you are serving this as a dinner you can toss the dressing immediately before serving and then top with blue cheese crumbles.
More Decadence
If you like decadent and delicious recipes like this salad, try my recipe for this amazing Macaroni and Cheese.
1 Comments
Rachael Black Marchetti
November 13, 2024 at 11:55 am
Looks delicious!