Recipe: Torn Escarole Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette

Torn Escarole Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette
Food and Wine Magazine, Dec 2019, p. 66
5 stars

This is a WOW / restaurant-worthy salad.  Lots of complexity and dimension to this salad as you can see from the ingredient list!  Spice, crunch, sweet, salty, umami.... definitely making this again soon.

Main Ingredients: applewood-smoked bacon, escarole, Honeycrisp apples, mild blue cheese like Gorgonzola

Crouton Ingredients: crusty Italian bread, hot chile-sesame oil or olive oil, Kosher salt

Dressing Ingredients: shallot, olive oil, apple butter or honey, red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard


Notes/Tips:

• Used a mix of hot chili oil and sesame oil -- definitely use this instead of just olive oil
• Used red leaf lettuce instead of escarole
• Didn't have Gorgonzola (which would've been amazing on this salad!) so used Parmesan