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Ingredients
Bacon Dressing:
- 5 slices bacon
- 1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons honey mustard, or more to taste
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Spinach Salad:
- 8 cups fresh spinach leaves, stems removed
- 8 ounces white button mushrooms (about 2 1/2 cups), thinly sliced
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
Directions
In a skillet add the bacon and cook over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon transfer the bacon to a paper towel lined plate to drain. Roughly chop and set aside.
Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of fat from the skillet. Heat the remaining fat over medium-high heat, add the shallots and cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Whisk in the vinegar, desired amount of mustard, and salt and pepper, to taste. Scrape the brown bits from the bottom of the skillet, bring to a simmer, then remove the skillet from the heat.
For the salad, in a large salad bowl, toss together the spinach, mushrooms, bacon and onion. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Serve warm.
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By mktdxg
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on November 11, 2012
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Saw this recipe on Friday and had extra spinach in the fridge - definitely worth a try. I'm sure this is really good. The dressing just didn't work out for me. My shallot went bad so I just used the red onion. I didn't have any honey mustard so I used dijon mustard and honey. I felt like there was too much red wine vinegar, so I added more honey and mustard. By the time I was finished, my dressing was more of a sauce. It was still tasty but I need to try this again.
By JoyceRay
on June 24, 2012
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This was great! And I don't much like Spinach. I had some left over and I put it ontop of a piece of salmon wrapped the whole thing in pie crust and baked it in the over. It was fantastic that way, too.
By Debjk
on May 17, 2012
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Omigosh...just doubled this and served it to 8...AWESOME. I did put a pinch of sugar in the dressing because I went a little heavy on the red vinegar, accidentally, and it was perfect!
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