Best Wilted Lettuce Recipes

CLASSIC WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels to drain. , To the hot drippings, add the vinegar, water, onions, sugar, salt and pepper, stirring until sugar is dissolved. , Place lettuce in a salad bowl; immediately pour dressing over and toss lightly. Top with egg. Serve immediately.

WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove from skillet, crumble and set aside.
• To the hot bacon drippings, add the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and pepper. Stir over medium heat until hot.
• In a large bowl, combine the lettuce and green onions. Add the warm dressing and toss to evenly coat. Sprinkle with bacon and serve.

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Place lettuce and onion in a large salad bowl; set aside. In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp (do not drain). Stir in vinegar, water, salt and pepper. Pour over lettuce and toss gently until well coated. Top with egg. Serve immediately.

MY MOM'S WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Wash the lettuce several times; drain.
• Clean and cut the onions into the lettuce.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
• Dressing: Heat dressing ingredients to boiling; pour over lettuce while boiling hot.
• Stir and mix well.
• Serve immediately.

GRANDMA'S WILTED LETTUCE WITH HOT BACON DRESSING

Steps:

• 1. If you are making Wilted Lettuce, put the eggs on to cook, then wash the leaf lettuce carefully. I remove all hard parts, like the spine, of the leaves. Put the leaves in a salad spinner to remove the excess water, or allow the leaves to drain in a colander lined with paper towels. Chop some onion and set aside. When the eggs have cooked about 15 minutes in boiling water, drain the water, and refill the pan with cool water to allow the eggs to cool. Assemble the lettuce leaves and chopped onion in a large salad bowl. Chop the eggs and set aside. THEN prepare the Hot Bacon Dressing.
• 2. Fry the diced bacon until crispy, then remove the bacon to a paper towel to drain. Reserve about 1 1/2 Tablespoons of bacon grease in the skillet and remove the rest.
• 3. While the diced bacon is frying, stir together the sugar, flour, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
• 4. Add the sugar mixture to the 1 1/2 Tablespoons of hot bacon grease, cooking over medium heat and stirring.
• 5. Add the vinegar and water and stir constantly, bringing it to a boil. Boil about 2 minutes, until slightly thickened. (If too thick, add a little water.)
• 6. Remove from heat and cool until warm. Pour over lettuce & onion, tossing the salad until coated and wilted. (The hotter the dressing, the more it will wilt. Your call.) Top with the chopped hardboiled eggs and crispy diced bacon. Dinner is served! =^..^=

OLD-FASHIONED WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat the eggs, milk, vinegar, salt and pepper until smooth; set aside. In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon to paper towels to drain, reserving drippings., Whisk egg mixture into drippings. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture reaches 160° or is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. , In a large salad bowl, combine the lettuce, onion and bacon. Pour dressing over salad; toss to coat. Serve immediately.

WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp; drain (saving drippings) and crumble.
• Place lettuce in a large bowl.
• top with onion, egg, and crumbled bacon.
• In a skillet put bacon drippings, vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar.
• Heat to boiling.
• Pour over lettuce in bowl and toss.
• Serve immediately.

WILTED LEAF LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large salad bowl, toss lettuce, onion and radishes; set aside. In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp; remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towel. To the drippings, add vinegar, brown sugar, mustard, salt and pepper; bring to a boil. Pour over lettuce and toss; sprinkle with bacon. Serve immediately.

WARM WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Toss lettuce, radishes and onions in a large salad bowl; set aside. In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain. To the hot drippings, add vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and pepper; stir well. Immediately pour dressing over salad; toss gently. Crumble the bacon and sprinkle on top.

WILTED ICEBERG LETTUCE

Steps:

• Place lettuce in a large salad bowl; set aside. In a small skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels. Drain, reserving 2 tablespoons drippings. , Saute onion in drippings over medium heat until tender. Stir in flour until blended; cook and stir until lightly browned. Combine the water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper; gradually stir into onion mixture. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; cook and stir 1 minute longer or until thickened. , Pour hot dressing over lettuce; toss to coat. Top with bacon and serve immediately.

SCALLOPS WITH TARRAGON CREAM AND WILTED BUTTER LETTUCE

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in small skillet over medium heat. Add shallots; sauté 3 minutes. Add wine; boil until reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Add cream, 3 teaspoons tarragon, and Pernod, if using. Simmer until sauce coats back of spoon, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper; set aside.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle scallops with salt and pepper; cook until brown and almost cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer scallops to plate. Add lettuce to drippings in skillet; toss until beginning to wilt, about 1 minute. Spoon sauce onto 2 plates; divide lettuce between plates. Place 4 scallops on each plate; sprinkle with remaining 1 teaspoon tarragon.

WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine lettuce and onions in a large salad bowl. Sprinkle with pepper; set aside. , In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Stir the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and salt in drippings. Pour over lettuce and toss gently until well coated. Top with egg. Serve immediately.

WILTED LETTUCE WITH BACON

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet; cook and stir over medium-high heat until evenly browned and crispy, about 10 minutes. Add lettuce; cook and stir in the bacon grease until lettuce wilts, 2 to 3 minutes. Mix buttermilk, salt, and pepper into bacon-lettuce mixture; cook and stir until buttermilk sauce thickens, 5 to 10 minutes. Whisk flour into sauce if needed to thicken.

GRANDMA RICHTER'S WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Place salad ingredients into a very large bowl. (I put mine into a 13 cup size Tupperware bowl.)
• 2. In another bowl, add the creamy dressing ingredients. Stir thoroughly to blend the ingredients together.
• 3. Pour the creamy dressing, a little at a time, over the salad, and stir gently to combine.
• 4. Once the creamy dressing has been completely mixed into the salad, serve the salad immediately.
• 5. *Note: When making this salad, you can pretty much use any type of lettuce, but my daughter and I agree, we much prefer using romaine lettuce; picked fresh from ones garden, but you can use store bought lettuce, even the iceberg lettuce. Also, when adding the leaves to the bowl, I pretty much left the leaves whole, except for the leaves that were a bit too large, then I tore those in half.

WILTED LETTUCE AND ONIONS

Steps:

• 1. Cut fresh lettuce from garden, or buy at your local store/farm stand, and green onions
• 2. Wash and dry lettuce. Cut off roots and wash onions, chop onions
• 3. Fry bacon, add olive oil to equal 1/2 cup total. When bacon is ready chop and set aside, leave grease in skillet, add vinegar, black pepper, and Splenda or sugar to skillet, reduce heat to low.
• 4. Mix lettuce, onions and top with chopped bacon, when your ready to eat quickly add the desired amount of hot bacon dressing to taste. Enjoy!!!

WILTED LETTUCE & ONION SALAD WITH BACON

Steps:

• 1. Either using bacon just fried up (OR) saved bacon grease from your crock. Heat dressing ingedients (bacon grease, sugar & vinegar) to boil point atop the stove.
• 2. Heat to boiling point and pour over 1 1/2 quarts shredded lettuce, 3 green onions, chopped and bacon crumbles (if you prefer). Add salt and pepper to taste. Toss to mix.
• 3. Serve at once, otherwise you get grease globs atop your lettuce, onion and bacon.
• 4. NOTE: This is copied as written, so for the 1 1/2 Quarts of shredded lettuce, spinach or greens, you will just have to 'eyeball' it or try to measure out in a quart jar. Just sharing as written out, play around with this, change up ingredients for salad, etc. Make it your own and enjoy! Thanks, Diana

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• 1. 1 Head 1eaf lettuce - rinsed, dried and torn into bite-size pieces Green onions with tops, thinly sliced 1. Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove from skillet, crumble and set aside.
• 2. 2. To the hot bacon drippings, add the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and pepper. Stir over medium heat until hot.
• 3. 3. In a large bowl, combine the lettuce and green onions. Add the warm dressing and toss to evenly coat. Sprinkle with bacon and serve.

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• 1. Cook bacon til crisp, remove from pan & discard all but 3Tlbs. fat from pan. Add vinegar, brown sugar, salt, and pepper to pan. Bring to a boil & pour over lettuce, Add reserved crumbled bacon

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Cut up lettuce and onion tops, place in a large bowl.
• Place bacon on top of lettuce.
• Have all the rest of the ingredients ready, because this goes quickly!
• Pour out all but 3T. of the bacon grease.
• Set the skillet on medium heat and add the cream, salt and sugar.
• From this point you will be whisking constantly.
• Heat the cream until it begins to steam - don't let it bubble.
• Add the vinegar slowly, whisking constantly until the mixture begins to steam.
• Pour the mixture over the lettuce, toss and serve immediatly.
• Make sure you have some good bread to soak up the leftover juices - trust me, folks will fight for the last drops!
• Note: All the whisking is to keep the dressing from "breaking", or separating. If it does, no problem. It's not as pretty, but it still tastes fabulous.

MOM'S WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Cut lettuce.
• add sliced onion and sugar, toss.
• Fry bacon till crisp- remove from pan.
• Drain and crumble bacon.
• Add vinegar and water to bacon grease- let come to a boil.
• Pour over lettuce onion and bacon.
• Mix well.
• Serve at once.