• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Low Carb Maven

  • Home
  • About
  • Articles
    • The beginners guide to Keto meal planning (+ a free healthy meal planner!)
    • How to set yourself up for success on your new Keto Diet (free printable)
    • How To Start A Low Carb Diet In 3 Easy Steps!
    • Low Carb Food List (Induction, Keto)
    • Low Carb Diet Beginners Guide
    • Low Carb Sweeteners: Choose What’s Best For You!
    • Best Low Carb Sweetener:The Best Sweeteners & How to Choose Them
    • U.S. to Metric Baking Chart
  • Recipes
  • Submit A Recipe
  • Newsletter Signup
  • Shop on Amazon
Home » Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing (keto)

Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing (keto)

By Kim Hardesty

Pin900
Share274

Fresh baby spinach with warm bacon dressing is a hearty salad classic which includes hard boiled eggs, bacon, mushrooms, and onions, mixed with a warm tangy-sweet dressing.

Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing #spinachsalad #warmbacondressing #baconvinaigrette #lowcarb

Maybe you’re like me and always have hard boiled eggs in the refrigerator? If that’s a “yes”, then this is a great recipe to use up any stragglers at weeks end.

Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing

I can’t tell you where the recipe for this wilted spinach salad originated, but my mother made it in the 1970’s or 80’s. Considered a stylish salad mom often served it for ladies luncheons.

The traditional ingredients for spinach salad with warm bacon dressing is baby spinach, hard boiled egg, crispy bacon, red onion, and raw sliced mushrooms. The warm bacon dressing is made from the drippings leftover from cooking the bacon and poured over the spinach, causing slight wilting.

Make It Your Own

Upon researching this recipe, I saw many variations for spinach salad with warm bacon dressing. Some recipes add shrimp, apples, strawberries, or Mandarin oranges. There is also a variation on the warm bacon dressing using ketchup. Topping with blue cheese and walnuts sounds completely amazing!

Spinach salad with warm bacon dressing with hardboiled eggs and mushrooms.

How to Make Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing

This recipe is very much in the tradition of the original recipe. I, too, start with baby spinach and hard boiled eggs. Cook diced bacon in a frying pan until crispy, remove. Add thinly sliced mushrooms to the pan and cook for a few seconds – until just cooked, remove.

Cook the shallots in the warm bacon fat until translucent. Add red wine vinegar, whole grain mustard, brown sugar, dried tarragon, and salt and pepper. Adjust seasonings. Toss the spinach with the bacon, mushrooms, and dressing. Add the hard boiled egg and serve.

Feel free to leave out the mushrooms or egg and experiment with your own ingredients.

NOTE: If you don’t like bacon, try the Balsamic Dressing in this Chicken Spinach Blueberry Salad. It’s VERY good.

Spinach salad with warm bacon dressing with hardboiled eggs and mushrooms.

Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing

Fresh baby spinach with warm bacon dressing includes hard boiled eggs, bacon, mushrooms, and onions, mixed with a warm tangy-sweet dressing. Low Carb Keto.
5 from 1 vote
Print Pin Rate
Course: Salad
Cuisine: American
Keyword: spinach salad, warm bacon dressing
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 445kcal

Ingredients

  • 10.5 oz Baby Spinach
  • 8 oz Bacon, diced
  • 4 large Hard boiled eggs, sliced or chopped
  • 2 oz Mushrooms, sliced very thinly (about 4 large)

Warm Bacon Dressing

  • 2 tbsp Shallot, finely chopped
  • 1/4 cup Bacon grease
  • 2 tbsp Red wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp Low carb brown sugar (brown sugar, or coconut sugar)
  • 1 tbsp Whole Grain Mustard
  • 1/2 tsp Dried tarragon
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Customize

  • shrimp, apple. strawberries, Mandarin oranges, walnuts, blue cheese
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Dice bacon and put in a cold pan over medium heat. Cook until crisp, stirring occasionally, about 5-6 minutes. Remove bacon. Pour bacon grease into a small container to use for the dressing.
  • While the bacon cooks, slice the mushrooms, finely chop the shallot, and slice or chop the eggs.
  • Keeping the heat at medium, add the mushrooms to the pan and keep moving for a few seconds until lightly cooked, but not raw. Remove.
  • Saute the shallots until translucent. Turn the heat to medium low and add the bacon grease, vinegar, Sukrin Gold, tarragon, and whole grain mustard, stir until the ingredients combine and emulsify. Salt and pepper to taste.
  • Toss the hot dressing with the spinach and divide between 4 serving bowls. Taste to adjust seasoning. Top with mushrooms, bacon, and eggs.
  • Serves 4 people at 3.34 g Net Carbs per serving.

Notes

Nutrition Facts
Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing
Amount Per Serving
Calories 445 Calories from Fat 288
% Daily Value*
Fat 32g49%
Cholesterol 268mg89%
Sodium 111mg5%
Carbohydrates 5.14g2%
Fiber 1.8g8%
Sugar 1.68g2%
Protein 28g56%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Calories: 445kcal | Carbohydrates: 5.14g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 32g | Cholesterol: 268mg | Sodium: 111mg | Fiber: 1.8g | Sugar: 1.68g

Traditional Greek salad recipe with Greek vinaigrette dressing.

Traditional Greek Salad with Greek Vinaigrette

Spinach strawberry pecan salad with feta cheese and homemade balsamic vinaigrette.

Spinach Strawberry Pecan Salad 

About Kim Hardesty

Kim HardestyKim is a self taught cook with over 30 years experience in the kitchen. She develops and tests low carb and keto recipes in her California home. She began her low carb journey in 2009 and at the urging of friends, started blogging in 2014. Kim shares delicious low carb and keto recipes no one would believe are sugar-free. Her recipes are featured in newsstand publications and on sites all over the internet.

View all posts by Kim Hardesty | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest

Spinach Salad With Warm Bacon Dressing #spinachsalad #warmbacondressing #baconvinaigrette #lowcarb
Pin900
Share274

Filed Under: Paleo, Salads

LCM NEWSLETTER

Join thousands of subscribers to get a FREE low carb recipe e-book, access to special deals, tips, and more!

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our mailing list.

Previous Post: « Slow Cooker Mississippi Pot Roast (low carb, keto)
Next Post: Crispy Pepperoni Chips – Easy Keto Friendly Snack »

Reader Interactions

Comments

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  1. AvatarAshley ward

    March 21, 2019 at 4:33 pm

    This salad is awesome it does not only look good, it also taste good and the nutrition facts will make you ask if is real sure it is.

    Reply
  2. AvatarTamara Proctor

    March 14, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    I have been craving this salad it was delicious! Thank you! I put the dressing in a mason jar and used my stick blender to combine everything, I preferred a smooth texture. It also helped to have it in the jar to rewarm the dressing. Go easy 20 seconds or it may explode in the microwave!

    Reply

Primary Sidebar

Welcome!

Kim HardestyHi, I'm Kim. I love coffee, steak, and love to bake. Are you looking for great Low Carb, Keto recipes that taste like the real thing? You're in the right place! Sign up for my NEWSLETTER and never miss a post!


Follow my blog - get the free Keto App

Footer

As featured on: The Feed Feed, Men's Health, Bulletproof, Huffpost, Health, Delish, Brit + Co, County Living, BuzzFeed, The Diabetes Council, BuzzFeed, Greatist, Shape, Parade, Women's Health, Keto Summit

LCM NEWSLETTER

Join thousands of subscribers to get a FREE low carb recipe e-book, access to special deals, tips, and more!

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our mailing list.

INFORMATION

Terms and Privacy
About
Contact
Low Carb Maven is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Copyright © 2019 Low Carb Maven on the Foodie Pro Theme