Wonderful fresh spinach salad with homemade dressing is a simple compliment to almost any fare. A summer classic but great anytime of the year.
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Recipe Notes for Spinach Salad
The original recipe. You can read it... right.
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Combine all non-dressing ingredients and toss well.
Combine all dressing components and mix well. This is a gravy shaker but a blender or even a whisk will do.
Serve with dressing on the side.
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Fresh Spinach Salad
Ingredients
- 1 lb spinach - cleaned
- 4 hard boiled eggs
- 1/2 lb bacon
- 14 oz bean sprouts
- 8 oz sliced water chestnuts
- 1 red onion - medium chopped optional
- 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms - optional-
Dressing
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup oil - vegetable or olive
- 1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tablespoons vinegar
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cut bacon into small to medium pieces and fry until crisp
- Slice hard boiled eggs.
- Combine all non-dressing ingredients and toss well.
- Combine all dressing components and mix well.
- Serve with dressing on the side.
ADJUST THE RECIPE SIZE:
You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.Nutrition
Nutrition is generally for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
Originally Published May 24, 2010
Pat Thompson
I've been making this for decades. Originally saw the recipe as a winner of a contest. It was called Sedona Spinach Salad. It is delicious.
anne
I love seeing the old recipe card
Going to make this tomorrow, Looks yummy !
You always have the best recipes
I look forward to your posting them
Thank you Dr. Dan
DrDan
Hi Anne,
I think the card is classic. You can't even read part of it due to the food stains. I still have it but now I look on the blog when I need it.
Thanks for the note
Dan
Joan
I used to make this or a version of it some years ago. I liked the flavors, but disliked chewing the spinach leaves which, to me, have an odd texture. I wonder how the salad would do with romaine lettuce instead of the spinach?
DrDan
Hi Joan,
Try "baby" spinach. The smaller the leaves, the more tender. You can try it with romaine. Most of the flavor does come from the other ingredients.
Thanks for the note
Dan
adriana
Quick ?, for the dressing it asks for vinegar... is it apple cider vinegar, white wine vinegar or regular distilled vinegar?
Thank you,
Adriana
DrDan
I like apple cider but white will do. By regular distilled I believe is the same thing as white.
DrDan
Martha (MM)
Yummy! Sounds totally delicious! Thanks so much for linking this up at this month's salad round up! It's still open if you have others :-)
Christine
No, no. He meant the only copy on a card. I pulled it out of the recipe box and the thing felt like it was going to fall apart in my hands!
Greg
It wasn't the only copy, I had mom e-mail that to me years ago and I still have it printed out in my kitchen. But yes rescue missions are good here.