Blue Cheese Wedge Salad

I think a homemade blue cheese wedge salad is the easiest salad to prepare.  A lot less prepping than your typical chopped salad.  

It’s crisp, refreshing, and the perfect light lunch or dinner.  

Who doesn’t like to eat a wedge salad? I remember first having this salad at our local Outback restaurant. We knew we had to create it at home.

Making your own blue cheese dressing is required for this salad. Don’t even bother with the bottled stuff. Nope, don’t even entertain the idea.

It’s so easy to whip up that you may make it all the time instead of buying it at the store.

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Why You’ll Love This

This wedge salad recipe is easy to make at home with very simple ingredients. Cool, crisp, and refreshing side or main dish.

Toppings

You can top the wedge salad with crumbled bacon, diced green onions, diced tomatoes, and blue cheese crumbles. Some other toppings are chives, cucumbers, avocado, and croutons.

Make this classic wedge salad recipe a main by adding diced chicken or steak.

How to Make Blue Cheese Wedge Salad

In a small bowl, whip up the salad dressing and let it sit in the fridge for a few hours. Here’s the recipe: Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing.

How to Cut Lettuce

Core the head of lettuce, remove any limp outer leaves, wash it, and dry. Slice the head of lettuce in half, then cut each half in half. You can stop there for 4 large pieces, or cut those in half again for 8 smaller wedges.

Crumble the bacon, and cut the tomatoes and green onions.

Plate the iceberg lettuce wedges, sprinkle with the bacon crumbles, tomatoes, and onions, and drizzle with the blue cheese dressing.  Season with a few cranks of freshly ground black pepper.

For an extra kick, add a few blue cheese crumbles if desired.

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Blue Cheese Wedge Salad Recipe

Perfect light, crispy and refreshing lunch or dinner.

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Course: Salad, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: blue cheese, easy, light, salad, summer, wedge

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 77kcal

Author: Don’t Sweat The Recipe

Ingredients

 

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For the salad:

• 1 head Iceberg lettuce, cored
• 4 strips Bacon cooked, cooled, and crumbled
• 3 – 4 medium Tomatoes, cut into wedges (I used Roma)
• 4 Green onions, diced (green tops only)

For the dressing:

• Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing

Instructions

• Make dressing according to instructions, refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
  Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
• Remove any limp outer leaves of the lettuce head, core, wash and let drain/dry.
  1 head Iceberg lettuce, cored
• Cut the lettuce in half, then cut each half into quartered wedges.
• Place each wedge on a plate, drizzle with the blue cheese dressing, top with a few crumbles of bacon, a sprinkling of green onions and reserved blue cheese chunks.
  4 strips Bacon, 3 – 4 medium Tomatoes, cut into wedges, 4 Green onions, diced
• Add a few wedges of tomato on the side.
• Grind fresh ground black pepper over the top, if desired.

Nutrition

Calories: 77kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 86mg | Potassium: 388mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 1295IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 1mg

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