If you’ve ever had a traditional wedge salad and loved it, it’s time to try it with romaine lettuce and throw it on the grill too. What does grilling do for the lettuce? It’s grilled briefly, so it imparts a slightly smoky flavor that you won’t get with plain old lettuce. It turns out to be one fabulous tasting salad!
The Recipe Girl Cookbook:
Ingredients needed:
romaine lettuce olive oil, salt and pepper bacon tomato blue cheese mayonnaise lemon juice
How to make Grilled Romaine Wedge Salad:
Hearts of romaine lettuce are drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper. Then they’re grilled on two sides for 3 to 4 minutes each side. That gives them a tiny bit of char and that smoky flavor infuses into the lettuce.
You don’t have to serve them hot off the grill, so you can put them on a baking sheet while you whip up the dressing.
The dressing is a simple blend of blue cheese crumbles, mayonnaise, lemon juice salt and pepper. If you want to have it ready to go when you’re done grilling the lettuce, it’s okay to make the blue cheese dressing ahead of time and keep it refrigerated until you’re ready to serve. The dressing is drizzled over the grilled romaine, and then it’s topped with more blue cheese crumbles, tomatoes and cooked bacon.
How to cook bacon in the oven:
For easy clean-up, cook your bacon in the oven. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large, rimmed baking sheet with foil and place a rack on top. Spray the rack with nonstick spray. Lay the bacon slices on the rack. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the bacon is crisp. Timing will vary depending on the thickness of your bacon.
This is a great summer salad to make- especially if you have the grill already going because you’re grilling something else. I hope you love this Grilled Romaine Wedge Salad as much as I do. Enjoy!
Here are a few more salad recipes you might like to try:
Mexican Chopped Salad with Honey Lime Dressing Triple Berry Salad with Sugared Almonds Layered Nacho Salad Mandarin Orange Green Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing Corn Tomato Avocado Salad Kale Salad with Butternut Squash Green Bean and Feta Salad Watermelon, Feta and Arugula Salad
