55 House Salad Recipe - Food.com (2024)

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Submitted by diner524

"There was a chain of Italian restaurants in the Columbus, Ohio area that had this awesome salad as their house salad. I don't like blue cheese, so asked for it to be omitted, but loved the combination of bacon, lettuce and dressing. When the salad was brought to the table, they then offered fresh ground black pepper. I think this recipe was posted in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper. NOTE: Due to this being a restaurant recipe, it makes a alot of dressing, about two cups, so you might want to cut the amount of dressing to 1/4 or 1/2 of this recipe."

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Ready In:: 15mins
Ingredients:: 8
Serves:: 6-8

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ingredients

1 cup vegetable oil
¹⁄₂ cup white vinegar
¹⁄₂ cup sugar
2 -4 teaspoons garlic powder (to taste)
1 head lettuce, chopped
5 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
4 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
1 small red onion, thinly sliced

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directions

Combine first four ingredients for the dressing in a container and shake well.
Put the lettuce in a bowl, sprinkle with bacon, blue cheese (if using) and red onion rings.
Drizzle enough of the dressing to coat or to taste along with freshly ground pepper (optional) and enjoy.

Questions & Replies

Was it Maggiano's? We moved to SWFL, so none around us, and some were shutting down in CA before we left. Great place; BEST salad!

Charli

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Reviews

A simple and delicious salad. The salad was reduced to 1 serving provided a generous amount of dressing. The sugar in the dressing was reduced by half and was perfect for my taste. Mixed spring mix was used for the greens and the cheese was crumbled Queso Fresca making this delicious salad gluten free. Made for Culinary Quest 2014.

PaulaG

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Outstanding! This is now my favorite salad recipe!! The only changes I made to the recipe: exchange the blue cheese for feta, add chunked cucumbers and half the dressing (still have some left over..yum!). This salad got rave reviews from my dinner guests. It's simple and absolutely delicious!!

LifeIsGood
Loved this salad. My family isn't fond of blue cheese, so I used feta. The dressing was so unique and tasty!

shari j.
Good salad! I left off the bleu cheese. Dressing was sweet but only a dab was needed to give the salad its flavor.

BETH C.
this was nice salad cut down for one used bacos loved the blue cheese made for italian leg of the quest cakepops on parade
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Tweaks

Feta and cucumbers added

gould202
Made this for a family gathering and got rave reviews! I increased the salad ingredients a bit to serve 12, and didn't need quite half the dressing. I used feta instead of blue cheese, and smoked sundried tomatoes instead of bacon, also added cucumbers. Delicious and simple!!

J-Lynn
Loved this salad. I made this to go with a lasagna we were having for dinner and it was a hit. I subbed in feta for the blue cheese (what I had) but it tasted great! I really like the dressing for this. Yummy. I halved the recipe for 4 of us and I have some leftover dressing thats calling my name for lunch. Thank you for sharing this delicous salad recipe.

Stephanie S.
So simple and light! A great winter salad since it doesn't rely on a lot of different veggies. I used precooked/crumbled bacon and spring greens instead of iceberg lettuce. Loved the dressing, it went very well with the bacon and blue cheese. Will make again!

Brooke the Cook in
delicious salad! but next time I will reduce the sugar just slightly, I used 2 teaspoon fresh minced garlic in place of garlic powder and a bag of mixed greens, also I used crumbled feta cheese in place of blue cheese, thanks for sharing diner, I will make again!

Kittencalrecipezazz

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