Got a crowd to feed for a summertime {or whatsoever time} get-together? Look no farther than this Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad every bit your go-to dish. With it's make-ahead convenience, ample size, in addition to fantastic flavors, it's perfect for backyard barbecues, potlucks, or the random Dominicus get-together.
I don't know close you, but I'm a total sucker for a beautiful make-ahead layered picnic salad. You know, the ones layered alongside iceberg lettuce, peas, in addition to all kinds of other goodies, slathered alongside a thick layer of creamy dressing all over the top, in addition to and therefore allowed to represent several hours or overnight to allow the flavors meld?
I recall it's therefore fun {& tasty} to intermission through those layers at serving time!
I was get-go introduced to these layered beauties yesteryear a friend who brought a repast spell I was recovering from operation a few years back. One of the dishes she brought was a make-ahead layered picnic salad. And I immediately fell inwards love.
I mean, who wouldn't? That salad was packed alongside therefore many delicious things.
The layers were only gorgeous.
I was hooked. And accept been a make-ahead layered picnic salad fan always since.
Now, this version isn't the exact version my friend was therefore variety to spoil me with. No, this version is a fleck spicier ... getting a peachy zing inwards the dressing from a fleck of Frank's cayenne pepper sauce ... in addition to includes a layer of bluish cheese crumbles.
And my oh my, is it always good!
I highly recommend when you've got a crowd to feed ... for fabulous flavor, make-ahead convenience, in addition to a stunningly beautiful dish to serve upward ... await to Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad every bit your go-to dish.
Trust me, y'all in addition to your sense of savour buds volition live glad y'all did.
Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad
Source: Adapted from The Best of America's Test Kitchen, 2009
(Printable recipe)
IngredientsSource: Adapted from The Best of America's Test Kitchen, 2009
(Printable recipe)
Salad:
- 1 head iceberg lettuce, roughly chopped {about 8 c.}
- 1 tsp. salt, divided
- 1/2 of a cerise onion, chopped
- 6 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
- 1 (12 oz.) package frozen peas, thawed {about 1 1/2 c.}
- 4 stalks celery, thinly sliced
- 1 cerise bell pepper, chopped
- 1 cucumber, halved, seeded, & thinly sliced
- 1 lb. bacon, cooked & crumbled
- 4 oz. blue cheese crumbles {about 1 c.}
- 1 1/2 c. mayonnaise
- 3 T. apple cider vinegar
- 1 T. Frank's Red Hot sauce
- 2 tsp. granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. ground dark pepper
- Place one-half of the lettuce inwards a large drinking glass serving bowl. Sprinkle alongside 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- Layer remaining salad ingredients over lettuce inwards this order: onion, eggs, peas, celery, bell pepper, in addition to cucumber. Add remaining lettuce in addition to sprinkle alongside remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Sprinkle hap alongside bacon in addition to bluish cheese crumbles.
- Combine all dressing ingredients inwards a bowl; stirring until good mixed. Spread over hap of the salad.
- Cover bowl alongside plastic roll in addition to refrigerate at to the lowest degree 8 hours, in addition to upward to 24 hours.
Enjoy!
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