Making the perfect Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans should only take approximately 20 min . It’s considered an Easy level recipe. Below are the ingredients and directions for you to easily follow. The Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans recipe can feed your family for 6 servings.
There are many different ways to make this Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans recipe. Once you’re familiar with our recommended ingredients and directions, you can add your own twist to this recipe to make it your own! We’ve also listed potential Cookware items below that might be necessary for this Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans recipe.
Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans Popular Ingredients
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup chopped chives
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon concentrated tomato paste
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- Pinch kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 5 ounces baby arugula, well washed
- 4 slices bacon, fried crisp and crumbled
- 1 cup chopped toasted pecans
- 1 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 seedless cucumber, diced
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
Steps for making Arugula Salad with Bacon and Pecans
- Dressing: Add all of the ingredients to a medium-sized mixing bowl and whisk until combined. Adjust the seasonings with salt and black pepper, to taste. Cover with plastic wrap and keep refrigerated until ready to use. Any leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator up to 4 days, in a tightly sealed container.
- Salad: Add all the ingredients to a large salad bowl. Drizzle on desired amount of dressing just before serving and toss. Re-season with salt and pepper, if necessary.
Popular Categories for this Recipe
- Easy Appetizer
- Appetizer – An hors d’oeuvre (/ɔːr ˈdɜːrv(rə)/ or DURV(-rə); French: hors-d’œuvre (listen)), appetizer or starter is a small dish served before a meal in European cuisine. Some hors d’oeuvres are served cold, others hot. Hors d’oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the meal, or they may be served before seating, such as at a reception or cocktail party. Formerly, hors d’oeuvres were also served between courses.Typically smaller than a main dish, an hors d’oeuvre is often designed to be eaten by hand.
- Salad Recipes
- Arugula – Rocket (British English) or arugula (American English) (Eruca vesicaria; syns. Eruca sativa Mill., E. vesicaria subsp. sativa (Miller) Thell., Brassica eruca L.) is an edible annual plant in the family Brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor. Other common names include garden rocket (in Britain, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand), and eruca. It is also called “ruchetta”, “rucola”, “rucoli”, “rugula”, “colewort”, and “roquette”. Eruca sativa, which is widely popular as a salad vegetable, is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal in the west to Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey in the east.
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- Frying pan
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