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Bacon and Pinenut Salad with Feta

Summer Salad from Amanda's Easy Eats S2024

As seen on: Amanda's Easy Eats (Season 2024: Episode 9)

Ingredients

  • 3 rashers bacon chopped
  • 50gm pine nuts
  • Leaves of baby Cos lettuce washed and chopped
  • 1 punnet cherry tomatoes halved
  • 1 cucumber chopped
  • 1 spring onion chopped
  • 1 avocado chopped
  • 150gm fetta cheese chopped
  • Parmigiano-Reggiano shaved for garnish

Dressing

  • Olive oil
  • White wine vinegar
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • Salt and pepper

Instructions

Add bacon to cold non-stick fry pan and heat slowly

Add pine nuts as bacon starts to brown 

Stir until pine nuts are golden and the bacon is crunchy

Set aside to cool

Add lettuce to large salad bowl

Add tomatoes, cucumber, spring onion, avocado and fetta and toss

Drizzle over dressing

Sprinkle over pine nuts and bacon

Garnish with shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano

 

Dressing

Mix equal parts of olive oil and white wine vinegar in a dressing bottle

Add garlic, season with salt and pepper

Shake