BLTS Salad (Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Scallop)

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A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops.  BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops.  It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.

 

I told you I was going to do a variation of the the  wilted spinach salad, right?  Yup.  This is it!

 

I was so floored that S loved the other salad and wanted to have it again, I thought we could do that, but with a twist.  We both said more bacon.  It’s turkey bacon and NO not the HORRID bacon bits.  This is @Butterball Turkey Bacon.  I like turkey bacon.  It’s crisp, it’s not too salty, and it doesn’t give me heart burn.

 

A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops.  BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops.  It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.

 

This time I crisped it up in the microwave and chopped it smaller than previously.  While we both agree more bacon was necessary, we also both agreed that smaller, crumbled style bits of bacon were what was needed to make this type of salad better.  This lead me to make it crispier in the microwave.

 

A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops.  BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops.  It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.

 

The whole bacon and lettuce thing lead me to the BLT salad.  I made a BLT bread salad once from Cooking Light.  I know, this isn’t bread salad.  But I thought, “If you can make a panzanella style salad in BLT format, why can’t you make a wilted salad in the BLT format?”  You can.  I did.

 

A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops.  BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops.  It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.

 

And it was good.  And we ate it.  The tomatoes add nice color and flavor.  They play off the sweetness of the dressing.  I accidentally purchased the mixed baby greens.  Ya know.  With baby kale and bok choy.  It wasn’t the same as spinach.  Don’t make the same mistake as I did and make sure you get the baby spinach.  I didn’t like the bitterness of the other greens in the package.  Ick.

 

You also need to make sure the pan is good and hot, but not smoking hot for the scallops.  They need a good amount of oil in the pan.  I use a ton of cooking spray.  We’re trying to do that low fat thing, so tons of oil isn’t really in our diet.  The nutritionist has said we can use all the spray we want, just not straight out oil.  Kind of makes sense, because we don’t measure the oil, but we’ll get tired of spraying the cooking spray.  Go figure!

 

A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops.  BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops.  It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.

 

I wonder how many variations of this type of salad I can come up with.  Or how many different types of scallop salad I can come up with.  We’ll see.  I have to make the menu for the next week tonight.  It will include some holiday baking for the parties this week.  YIPEE!  *snort*

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A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops. BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops. It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.
Yield: 2 servings

BLTS Salad

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

A wilted spinach salad gets a makeover with the addition of pan seared scallops. BLTS Salad has the sweet and sour of the wilted lettuce salad with tangy tomatoes, salty bacon, and sweet scallops. It’s a great dinner salad for any night of the week.

Ingredients

  • 8 slices turkey bacon
  • 1 pound large sea scallops
  • 1/2 cup cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 4 cups baby spinach
  • 2 cups grape tomatoes, halved
  • 4 large hard boiled eggs, quartered

Instructions

  1. Place the bacon on a microwave safe plate covered with a paper towel. Top with an additional paper towel and microwave on high 4 to 5 minutes, or until crispy. Remove and crumble.
  2. Rinse and dry the spinach very well and place in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
  3. Heat a large skillet coated with cooking spray over high heat. Season scallops with salt and pepper on both sides. Place scallops in the pan and sear 3 to 4 minutes on each side only turning them once. Remove from heat and keep warm.
  4. Combine the vinegar and sugar in a small bowl. Add to pan bring to a boil. Simmer until slightly thickened, about 2 to 3 minutes.
  5. Pour hot dressing over the spinach, turning with tongs to coat. Add the bacon and tomatoes and toss until combined. Divide the spinach evenly among 4 dinner plates. Arrange eggs around the edges of the plate and top with 3 to 4 large scallops. Serve with crusty French bread.

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