This is a warm and creamy salad dressing of balsamic and champagne vinegar with a smoky bacon like flavor for a spinach salad.
Do you remember the warm bacon salad dressing on spinach and eggs? It was tasty, but it was essentially warm bacon grease.
I recently acquired some smoky, bacon flavored salt from the San Francisco Salt Company. This company smokes it’s salt over a real wood fire. There is no bacon in the salt and no fake ingredients that I could see. However, I was very curious to use it and see just how I could use it.
What better way than a bacon salad dressing? This dressing is smoky, a little sweet and salty with a bacon like flavor. I made enough for 6 servings but my husband ate two bowls of salad and finished it off!
Yeah, it was good! I didn’t need to serve it hot though as there is no grease. Even better.
Balsamic and bacon like salad dressing
Ingredients
- 6 Tbsp Fig Balsamic vinegar If fig is not available, use Modena or other balsamic
- 6 Tbsp Champagne vinegar
- 2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
- 1 Tsp Smoked bacon salt
- 1 Tsp Black Pepper
- 1 Tsp Kala Namak salt Use bacon salt if this is not available
- 1 Cup Non dairy, unflavored coconut yogurt
Instructions
- Combine vinegars and cook slowly over a medium fire to reduce for 5 minutes.
- Add together the salts, lemon juice and yogurt
- Mix well and allow to cool or use slightly warm. Serve.
Notes
This is a Snap Pea Sheep recipe.
This dressing was created for a Spinach salad. Typically a spinach salad has red onion and boiled egg slices. For that reason, I added a little Kala Namak salt to the dressing.
You may prefer more bacon like flavor than Kala Namak flavor, then adjust the salt to your taste.
I served this on a salad of little gem lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, red onion, and a few green olives.
It occurred to me that adding walnuts or pecans to this dressing would really kick it up a notch!
