Strawberry Poppyseed and Bacon Chopped Salad
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Strawberry Poppyseed and Bacon Chopped Salad – A quick and tasty chopped salad topped with a creamy strawberry poppyseed dressing and crumbled feta!
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What on earth is a poppyseed? After I’d thrown all of the ingredients for this dressing into my food processor and was giving it a few good pulses, it hit me. What is a poppyseed? Does it come from a Poppy? Is that a flower or something else? And have you tasted a poppyseed plain? It tastes like…. I don’t even know, I really have no words to even describe it. But I swear, recipes that call for poppyseeds must have them or they won’t taste like they should. While I’ve got the use of a trove of innovation at my fingertips, I’m gonna look up poppyseeds and be right back. Have a cookie or something, this will only take me a moment.
Okay I’m back. Woah talk about fact-shock. Poppyseeds do come from a flower. But that’s not the shocking part. Guess what else comes from that same flower? Opium. Whaaaaa??? Serious. No wonder I get a little sleepy after I eat lemon poppyseed muffins. I’m pulling your leg I don’t think I’ve ever felt sleepy after eating anything with poppyseeds unless I ate it at four in the morning.
Oh and one more useful fact about poppyseeds. Apparently in traditional Indian medicine, poppyseeds can be ground, combined with milk, and made into a paste to be used as a skin moisturizer. Huh. Who knew. All these years I’ve been using lotion.
But off-topic from the history of poppyseeds, let’s talk about how awesome they are in this poppyseed. The dressing people, the dressing. Creamy, tangy, sweet, and whatever fantastic adjective you get when you add poppyseeds to the mix. Annnnnd, can I just get a hoo-ray for quick and healthy dinners? After a long day of work, stress, mis-haps, and ruined plans, an easy and delicious dinner is what I need. Something I know is gonna turn out fantastic with minimal effort. This is it folks. The dinner you want to make at the end of a long hard day. So tasty, healthy, and ready to eat in fifteen minutes, you can’t beat that!
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Strawberry Poppyseed and Bacon Chopped Salad
Ingredients
- 6 cups romaine lettuce, chopped
- 2 cup strawberries, chopped
- 8 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled
- ½ red onion, diced
- 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
Dressing
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon diced red onion
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup white vinegar
- ¼ cup strawberries, chopped
- ½ cup olive oil
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon poppyseeds
Instructions
- In a large bowl toss together chopped lettuce, strawberries, bacon, and red onion. In a food processor or blender, add all dressing ingredients and pulse 1-2 minutes until smooth. Pour dressing over salad and top with crumbled feta cheese. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Using gluten-free bacon, I’m all set! What a great idea to use strawberries and onions instead of avocado in a much like cobb salad. Love it! Thanks!
We served this at our school. We had 2 nd/12th graders eat it. They all loved it! thanks for the GREAT recipe!!
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know I am sharing your wonderful recipe tomorrow in my Gluten-Free Recipe RoundUp with a link back to your original post!
Have a terrific weekend!
Cathy from APeekIntoMyParadise.com
And this is going to be tonight’s dinner! But with a few improvises, since I don’t have all of the ingredients on hand 🙂 I am beyond impressed with this blog and am soooo glad I discovered it via Pinterest. Are you on Bloglovin’? And do you actually make / take the pictures of everything? I am blown away!
Yum to the freekin tummy!
Love this recipe! Pinning & sharing on Facebook later today 🙂
For parties we ALWAYS make a salad with feta, strawberries and red onions so I KNOW I will absolutely devour this sald. The dressing sounds delicious, must try!
There’s something about that combo, the feta and strawberries with that kick from the sweet red onions… I can’t get enough! Hope you enjoy this Elizabeth! 🙂
I grew up in Europe and I used to see how poppyseeds are growing. I was opening their hard shell and I ate them straight from the flower. Poppyseeds are inside of the “flower”. Lovely Blog and great recipes.. It is my first comment but I have been visiting for couple months now:)
That’s amazing! I would love to see that! Thanks Ilona! 🙂
I have always adored poppyseed salads but adding bacon?! You just took it to a whole other level!
Haha seriously, poppyseeds are so weird, but I love everything with poppyseeds in them. This salad looks so great Tiffany and your dressing sounds ahhhhmazing!