Bacon, ground beef, and cheese all in one salad with a mustard dressing on top, how can you go wrong?!
If I serve salad as a main dish it has to be a hearty salad with a lot of toppings. No light salads, otherwise known as girly salads, are allowed for a main course at my house. If I am serving salad for dinner it must contain meat and lots of it.
So today I have for you a new favorite main dish salad at our house, bacon cheeseburger salad with mustard dressing. This salad is definitely a main dish type salad and it is a salad that everyone is sure to enjoy.
It is hearty and so good. And because it is salad it is healthy right?!
Bacon Cheeseburger Salad
All the flavors of a bacon cheeseburger in an easy to make main dish salad.
Ingredients
For the dressing:
- 1/4 cup yellow mustard
- 2 tablespoons bacon grease
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 cup ketchup
For the salad:
- 1 pound lean ground beef that has been browned and cooked thoroughly
- 1/2 pound bacon, cooked and chopped, reserve 2 tablespoons of grease when cooking to use in the dressing
- 1/2 cup chopped pickles
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- 6 cups shredded or torn lettuce
Instructions
- For the dressing whisk together mustard, bacon grease, milk, and ketchup until well mixed. Refrigerate for several hours before serving.
- We like to set everything out and let each person put together their salad as desired, but you could easily combine the ingredients and toss with the dressing and serve it all combined.
Notes
If you are gluten free be sure to read labels to make sure that they ingredients are gluten free.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 515Total Fat: 35gSaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 18gCholesterol: 129mgSodium: 1257mgCarbohydrates: 10gFiber: 2gSugar: 5gProtein: 40g
Nutritional values are approximate and aren't always accurate.
This was great!! Kids ate it up and we adults enjoyed it too. Thanks for saving dinner tonight.
Thanks for letting me know that your family enjoyed it! I really appreciate it.
Lynn,
Do you season the ground beef at all?
I’m going to try this tonight!
I don’t season it, but you could and I am sure it would be good.
I made something similar to this recently that was a huge hit at my house. More of a Philly Cheesesteak Salad, though. I sauteed mushrooms, onions and peppers with the ground beef and melted provolone on top of it. Served the mixture over lettuce with tomatoes and ketchup as a dressing. My kids and husband actually liked salad for dinner! I’ll have to try your version too!
That sounds really good!
I usually buy Tysons steak or chicken strips,when they’re on sale, and make a main meal salad with those.
Now I think I’ll try this one. Could I use olive oil in place of bacon grease?
The bacon grease adds flavor, but any oil should work fine. I hope you enjoy it!