BLT Chopped Salad
All the goodness of a BLT in a healthy salad form with a refreshing lime vinaigrette!
I know that we’re in the new year and all and we’re supposed to be eating salads and quinoa casseroles left and right but no one said we had to leave out bacon, right? I mean, you can always sneak it in a salad and make it healthy. And if you really want to take it a step further, you can even add a little bit of an extra crisp bacon garnish. Or am I just pushing it here?
Either way, if all salads were like this, I’m sure I could eat a BLT chopped salad everyday for the rest of my life. From the crisp bacon to the gorgeous cherry medley tomatoes, fresh avocado, and sweet corn kernels on a bed of crisp romaine lettuce, this salad is absolute perfection. And with a drizzle of that tangy, sweet lime vinaigrette, you’ll really want to have this every. single. day.
BLT Chopped Salad
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon, diced
- 4 cups chopped romaine lettuce
- 1 avocado, halved, seeded, peeled and diced
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- ½ cup corn kernels
- ¼ cup crumbled goat cheese
For the lime vinaigrette
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- Zest of 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
- 2 teaspoons sugar, or more to taste
Instructions
- To make the vinaigrette, whisk together olive oil, apple cider vinegar, lime zest and juice, and sugar in a small bowl; set aside.
- Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add bacon and cook until brown and crispy, about 6-8 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
- In a large bowl, combine romaine lettuce, avocado, tomatoes, corn, goat cheese and bacon. Stir in lime vinaigrette.
- Serve immediately.
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Bacon is really not all that bad, in fact its actually better than turkey bacon because it natural and not manufactured! Best of all, I can eat it while on the paleo diet! HURRAH! 🙂 This salad looks awesome like always Chung-Ah. Can’t wait to give it a try. Pinning
Bacon is definitely necessary! This salad is gorgeous. I could eat it everyday and never get tired of it. 🙂
You definitely can’t leave out the bacon–this BLT salad has everything I want. The lime vinaigrette sounds like the perfect choice, too.
This is salad perfection. Pinning!
This salad looks delicious. Love all the flavours and so colourful. Makes me happy just looking at it 🙂
Looks so delicious … I think it’s the vibrant colours… and the bacon, of course! I’m not keen on goat’s cheese, but I guess you could add another sharpish cheese … maybe a little crumbled feta?
Chopped salad loaded with bacon… I loooove it! No joke, I would eat 2 huge salad bowls of this in one sitting. You don’t know me until you put salad and bacon in front of my face. I’ll tear it up!! 🙂
Gorgeous salad, Chung-Ah! I want this for breakfast right now, LOL! Thanks for sharing, girl. Pinned!
I am *not kidding* when I tell you that yesterday I bought the ingredients for a vegan BLT salad and am shooting it tomorrow. Girl I have never put a bacon recipe (in my case, faux bacon) on my site but thought what the heck. I couldn’t make this up! Your salad is gorgeous! And probably far more beautiful than how mine is going to turn out tomorrow! pinned 🙂
Thank you for the pin, as always! And I can’t wait to see your vegan BLT salad!
WANT! This looks gorgeous! Hand it overrr.