Navy bean and bacon salad

Posted on | July 8, 2008 | | Printer Friendly

bacon salad

About three o’clock this afternoon, the bacon alarm went off.  I knew I wanted some sort of salad with bacon.  Enter Google.  I typed in some keywords: bacon, salad and beans.  Most of the results featured green beans… blah!  I wanted real beans… the kind that don’t taste like freshly mowed grass.  (I am not fond of green beans!)

This recipe from Cooking Light came up - not only did it feature white beans, bacon! and spinach, but maple syrup and mustard.  Swoon.  Could it be love? It could.  I added some tomato to the recipe since I had it on hand and gobbled up two servings for dinner with a fresh baguette from the Boko bakery.  The dressing was so good, I’ll probably add it as one of my go-to salad dressing recipes.

Note: their instructions say to heat up the dressing and the beans, but why?  Like it’s not hot enough here in Ottawa these days?  A girl does not need hot beans on her salad.  I omitted any instructions that would add more heat to the apartment.

Boyfriendly rating: 5/5  “loved the bacon- with the beans and greens!”  (I also heard the boy say, “it was yummy” but he’ll be embarrassed that I typed ‘yummy’ on the blog.)

Ingredients: 

  • 1/4 cup maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon extravirgin olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1  can navy beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1 tomato diced
  • 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped red bell pepper
  • 5 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
  • fresh baby spinach

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Category: Meat, Salad

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