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Commander’s Salad

(Serves 4 as a side dish)

Our most pop­u­lar side salad, this is a col­or­ful com­bi­na­tion of mixed salad greens, crisp crum­bled bacon, Parme­san cheese, hard-cooked eggs and crunchy crou­tons, all tossed in our spe­cial Commander’s dress­ing.  Use the fresh­est sea­sonal salad greens – we use leaf let­tuce, field let­tuce, Bibb, romaine, oak leaf, endive and watercress.

4 cups         mixed salad greens
4 tbsp.         crum­bled crisp bacon
4 tbsp.         freshly grated Parme­san cheese
1 cup           croutons

Commander’s Dress­ing
Makes 2 cups

11/2 cups        salad oil
1                      egg, at room tem­per­a­ture
1/3 tsp.            salt
1/2 tsp.            freshly cracked pep­per­corns
¼ cup               white vine­gar
3 tbsp.             minced onions

Gar­nish
2 hard-cooked eggs, halved

Wash and dry greens and tear into bite-size pieces.  In a salad bowl com­bine greens, bacon, cheese and crou­tons.
Put ½ cup oil and the remain­ing dress­ing ingre­di­ents in a blender.  Cover and blend on low speed.  Remove cover and grad­u­ally blend in remain­ing oil.
To serve: Pour 8 table­spoons dress­ing over salad and toss.  Divide onto indi­vid­ual salad plates or into bowls, and gar­nish each serv­ing with hard-cooked egg half.

One Comment on “Commander’s Salad”

  1. Jillian said:

    September 14th, 2010 @ 8:00 am

    Hey there, I was read­ing your arti­cle and I just wanted to say thank you for putting out such excel­lent con­tent. There is so much non­sense on the inter­net these days its hard to find any­thing worth­while. I actu­ally have cooked this recipe before, I got this book last month on rec­om­men­da­tion from a friend http://ninjahq.com/go/cookingrecipes and it turned out quite nice! I’m very eager to try your vari­a­tion of it though, it looks fan­tas­tic. I think you might enjoy those recipes, they’re very good. Thanks for the arti­cle and tips.

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