Warm Cabbage Salad With Bacon And Blue Cheese Recipes

WARM CABBAGE SALAD WITH BACON

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-low heat, stirring often, until crisp, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk vinegar, Dijon mustard, whole-grain mustard, honey, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Gradually whisk in oil.
• Transfer the bacon to a paper-towel-lined plate with a slotted spoon, leaving the fat behind. Increase heat to medium-high and add carrots and onion; cook, stirring often, until starting to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Add cabbage; cook, stirring occasionally, until starting to wilt, 1½ to 2 minutes. Add the vinaigrette and cook, stirring, until heated through, about 1 minute. Serve immediately, sprinkled with the bacon.

WARM BACON AND CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• When the bacon is cold, cut into small pieces, it's easier to handle.
• In a large sauté pan render the bacon and when almost cooked add the mushrooms, tossing to coat with bacon fat and sauté for several minutes.
• Add the Honey Mustard salad dressing to the bacon mushroom mixture and cook for several minutes more on low.
• Wash and chop the cabbage, let drain and place in a large bowl. Pour the bleu cheese crumbles over the cabbage.
• Next pour the hot mustard, bacon and mushroom mixture over the cabbage and bleu cheese and toss well to incorporate. The cabbage wilts nicely and the flavors are amazing. Serve immediately.

WARM CABBAGE SALAD WITH ROQUEFORT AND PEPPERED BACON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F..
• In a shallow baking pan spread bacon in one layer and sprinkle generously with additional pepper. Bake bacon in oven, stirring occasionally, 15 to 20 minutes, or until crisp, and transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, reserving drippings.
• In a small heavy saucepan boil wine with shallot until most wine is evaporated and add cream, mustard, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, and salt to taste. Simmer mixture until thickened slightly and keep warm.
• In a very large skillet heat half of reserved drippings over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and cook half of cabbage, stirring, until it begins to wilt, about 2 minutes. Transfer wilted cabbage to a bowl and cook remaining cabbage in remaining reserved drippings in same manner. Return wilted cabbage in bowl to skillet. Add vinegar and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Stir in cream mixture and cook stirring until cabbage is crisp-tender. Add Roquefort, stirring until melted.
• Divide salad among 6 plates and sprinkle with bacon.

WARM CABBAGE SALAD BY SAM ZIEN

Steps:

• Place cabbage in a large bowl with cheese on top. Cook mushrooms in about a tablespoon of olive oil until quite soft. Add bacon.
• Continue to cook both about 3 more minutes until bacon just begins to get a little crispy. Add dressing to pan, being careful as it will splatter, heat through. Pour mushroon-bacon dressing on the cabbage and mix well.
• Season with a little Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper.

WARM BACON AND CABBAGE SALAD

Steps:

• Toast the walnuts and set aside.
• Cook the bacon over medium heat until crispy. Set aside to drain and cool. Drain off all bacon fat except for 1 tablespoon.
• Add the garlic and onion to the pan and saute over medium heat for about 2 minutes.
• Next add the sherry and cook until reduced by half, approximately 3-4 minutes.
• Add the cabbage and {{lightly}} cook until wilted but still crunchy, about another minute.
• Remove pan from heat.
• Transfer the cabbage mixture to a salad bowl and toss with the wine vinegar, olive oil, thyme, walnuts and crumbled bacon.
• Season to taste with salt (and freshly ground black pepper if not using pepper bacon).
• Serve warm.

RED CABBAGE AND BACON SALAD WITH BLUE CHEESE

Steps:

• Cut cabbage in half, remove the core, and then cut into quarters. Finely shred the quarters, and transfer to a large bowl.
• Heat the vinegar to boiling in a small saucepan. Pour the vinegar over the shredded cabbage and toss to mix so it's thoroughly coated.
• Pour the boiling water over the cabbage and let it stand until slightly softened, about 3-4 minutes. Drain thoroughly in a colander, then return it to the large bowl.
• Toss the cabbage with enough vinaigrette to moisten well.Taste for seasonings and add more vinegar, if needed. Cover the bowl and marinate the cabbage in the dressing 1-2 hours. The cabbage will turn a pinkish color.
• Twist off and discard the root end of the romaine. Wash romaine well, then drain the leaves well. Stack the leaves and roll them up tightly. Cut the rolled leaves cross-wise into wide strips.
• Crumble the blue cheese into a small bowl with your fingers. About 10 minutes before serving the salad,stack the bacon slices and cut crosswise into strips. Cook the bacon until crisp and the fat has melted, about 3-5 minutes.
• Spoon the hot bacon and pan juices over the red cabbage, reserving some bacon for garnish. Toss them together.
• Arrange a bed of shredded romaine leaves onto serving plates.Spoon any remaining dressing over the lettuce. Mound the red cabbage and bacon mixture in the center. Top the salads with blue cheese and reserved
• bacon in the center.
• Note* this salad can be made ahead with the vinaigrette dressing up to 2 hours. The vinaigrette can be made ahead up to 1 week ahead. Times do not include marinating.