Do you love burgers but want something a little lighter? How about a bacon cheeseburger salad with all of the flavours of a bacon cheeseburger in salad form. This salad starts out with ground beef that is seasoned with common burger patty ingredients and condiments including worcestershire sauce, ketchup and mustard. The salad continues with other common burger topping including lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle and of course plenty of cheese and bacon along with a warm bacon vinaigrette! If these aren’t your favourite burger toppings, you can easily change the salads ingredients to what you want! This meaty salad sure does eat like a meal and it’s perfect for for salad for dinner especially if you are a fan of bacon cheeseburgers!
Updated (July 22, 2015): This is one of my favourite salads and since I was making it again the other day I figured that I would take the opportunity to update the photos!
Warm bacon vinaigrette… mmm…
Feel free to add some crumbled potato chips!
Bacon Cheeseburger Salad
All of the flavours of a bacon cheeseburger in a salad with a warm bacon vinaigrette!
ingredients
- 6 strips bacon
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- salt and pepper or steak seasoning to taste
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons warm bacon grease
- 2 tablespoons bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 small clove garlic, finely chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- 6 cups lettuce
- 1 cup tomato, diced
- 1/4 cup onion, sliced
- 1/4 cup pickle, diced
- 1/2 cup cheddar, shredded
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
For the burger seasoned beef:
For the bacon vinaigrette:
For the salad:
directions
- Cook the bacon, set aside on paper towels to drain and crumble when cool, reserving the grease.
- Add the onion to the pan along with some of the reserved grease and saute until tender, about 3-5 minutes, over medium-high heat.
- Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the ground beef and cook draining any grease when done.
- Mix in the ketchup, mustard, worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper, simmer to reduce, and set aside.
- Add the vinegar to the pan, deglaze it, add crumbled bacon and grease, sugar, mustard, garlic, season with salt and pepper and remove from heat.
- Assemble the salad, toss in dressing and enjoy!
For the burger seasoned beef:
For the dressing:
For the salad:
Option: Add burger croutons by dicing some buns, tossing in oil or bacon grease along with salt and pepper and baking in a preheated 400F oven until lightly golden brown.
Option: Replace the warm bacon vinaigrette with another dressing like ranch, etc.
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AWESOME idea!
This salad looks fabulous! What a great idea. I know my hubs would love this!
This is a fantastic idea for a salad. Can't wait to try this one!
You always make me hungry! This looks great!
When that burger craving hits, as it inevitably will this summer, a veg version of this is exactly what i'll be making!
yeeeessss! amazing! We WILL be re-creating this, vegan style though.
Wow! What a great way to become morbidly obese! My only suggestion would be perhaps a nice melted butter drizzle for dressing, but other than that – spot on!
I'll bet I could even get my carnivore boyfriend to eat this one…
what a wonderful looking salad! my mouth is watering, happy weekend, kevin! anne
Hey Kevin! We made this for dinner tonight and it was ugly but AMAZING!!!!
What an amazing idea! Great photos, too.
I really like your salads.. 🙂 they're so definitely coloured and good that don't give the impression of a sad lunch.. great!
"Mom! Kevin threw my cheeseburger in the food processor!"
LMAO!!
Looks delicious! =) DEfinitely gonna try it out
Now, that's my kind of salad! The Coke in the picture pairs up perfectly with it 🙂
OOOOH YAAA! My husbands going to love this one…you even thought of the perfect beverage for it! Nice job!
Ummmm….yes please!!! Sounds amazing and I see this on my dinner table in the very near future!
WoW! I am so glad I made this!!! Fantastic!!! Thank You!
Cannot wait to try this salad. I’ll make it personable for each person and have all the toppings on the side, including diced avocados, fried eggs, lettuce, spinach, sauteed mushrooms, sauteed onions and anything else I can come up wirh. You hit a home run in my house with this yummy salad!!! Going to the grocer tomorrow!!!