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This Strawberry Salad is made with bacon and topped off with a poppy seed dressing! Perfect for spring or summer, make this soon! Or try this fun variation Strawberry Avocado Salad with Poppyseed Dressing!
Strawberry Salad | With Bacon!
Adding another old recipe upfront for you to see, this time it’s a Strawberry Salad! This is a super popular one that you’ve probably seen around Pinterest a time or two. So tangy and so so good! Anyways, make this salad. It is beyond incredible and can make you forget all your cares in the world. Bacon- salty. Strawberries-sweet. Almonds-crunchy. Dressing-creamy. Everything eaten together-priceless. Super simple and super delicious!
Main Ingredients Needed
There are two parts to this Strawberry Salad, the salad and the poppy seed dressing. Here are all of the ingredients you’ll need for both:
- Strawberries – make sure you grab nice fresh ones and slice those babies up.
- Bacon – cooked and crumbled. I always keep a bag of Kirkland bacon bits around so sometimes I just toss a handful of those into a pan. A super easy and quick way to add bacon to any salad.
- Candied Almonds – Buy these from the store OR make your own homemade which is what I did for this recipe. (They’re easier to make than you think!)
- Lettuce- this is a strawberry salad so you’re going to need lettuce! Feel free to add in spinach, as desired.
For the Poppy Seed Dressing
- Mayonaisse – please use real mayo here, not miracle whip. Ew.
- White Vinegar – a nice acidic flavor in comparison to the sweetness of the strawberries. If your strawberries aren’t as ripe (therefore not as sweet) use less of this.
- Sugar – to balance out the other flavors.
- Salt and Pepper – season to taste!
- Poppy Seeds – this wouldn’t be a poppy seed dressing without poppy seeds!
How to Make a Strawberry Salad
Guys when I said this Strawberry Salad was easy, I meant it. For full details, see the recipe card down below 🙂
Prep Salad Ingredients
Tear lettuce into bite-sized pieces, wash, dry and pour into a large bowl. You can buy a clamshell of ready made lettuce for ease OR use a salad spinner. Top with sliced strawberries, candied almonds and cooked bacon.
Make Dressing + Serve
To make the dressing, pour all ingredients into a small bowl and whisk. Drizzle salad generously with poppyseed dressing and serve immediately.
Making Ahead + Storing Leftovers
Sadly, I wouldn’t recommend keeping any leftover strawberry salad. I mean you totally can, but the longer it sits, the more limp and soggy the lettuce gets, so it wouldn’t be quite the same.
To make this ahead, I would add lettuce and strawberries to my serving bowl, cover with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator. Keep almonds and bacon in baggies along with the salad in the fridge. Make the dressing and keep in a small airtight container in the fridge. When you are ready to serve, top the salad with almonds and bacon, then drizzle with dressing and serve.
More Fruit Filled Salads to Try!
Enjoy, friends!! Have a fabulous food filled day! Love your faces!! 🙂
The printable recipe card is down below!
AMAZING Strawberry Salad
Ingredients
- 4 oz butter lettuce or any preferred lettuce
- 1/2 pint fresh strawberries about 8 strawberries, depending on size
- 1/3 cup real bacon bits
- 1/4 cup candied almonds
For the Poppyseed Dressing:
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar or white distilled
- 1/2 teaspoon poppyseeds
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place lettuce into a large bowl. Wash, hull and slice strawberries and add them to the bowl with the lettuce.
- Top with bacon bits and candied almonds.
- Whisk all ingredients for dressing together in a bowl until smooth.
- Drizzle dressing over salad and serve.
This was very tasty. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe.
I find you delightful. Just sayin.
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I have a question about the yogurt, because I HATE greek yogurt… so can I simply substitute the greek yogurt for plain old regular yogurt, or do I need to make modifications to the other ingredients as well?
(P.S. Getting a GA license is ridiculous, I know a lady who spent 9 months trying to get one so that she could register her car… 9 months of “riding dirty!”
Thanks…
regular yogurt will be fine.
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Love this recipe/salad. The dressing is even good on other things. Thanks. I have written more but the flashing of the ad., is giving me a migraine.
It was delish! Only thing I will change next time is not so much vinegar. Maybe if the strawberries were riper and sweeter it would have been not so tart. Maybe I will try to see if there is a strawberry vinegar or similar to see if that works better for my family. 🙂
This looks yummy!
I don’t care for mayo, would it work to sub all greek yogurt or sour cream for the mayo?
Sure! It would just be extra tangy 🙂
Lauren, thanks so much for this poppy seed dressing recipe. I just made it and love it, I like the Greek yogurt in there too. I will be using this dressing often now. If I use it on my blog I’ll give you the ping back thx 🙂
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I just had to take a test to get a Utah license and luckily, it was open book. It still sucked because I only had 20 minutes to take it before they closed. Thanks for the dressing recipe. I’m trying to avoid eating canola and soybean oils, so this is a perfect recipe for me.
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I did the quiz, totally failed! A lot of it was me not understanding what the @#$% they were talking about, and with only 10 questions, 1 wrong answer is a big deal!!
I made this salad today for a church potluck – everyone loved it! You’ve got the salty, sweet, and tangy flavors going on, and the different textures. This is definitely a keeper! To save time, I used a large bag of spring greens mixture, and it was so pretty,
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Sounds delish.
BTW I just failed the test–and I just passed the CA test after moving here from MD!!
I got only 70%…oops! That is one weird test. lol…Yummy recipe!
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This looks great Lauren. Pinning…
What a variety of flavors!
Yeah, I’ll buy your book just for the journaling/posts. Oh, the salad looks great too. BTW, how can I get your posts at my new email address?
I failed my first written test for an Oregon driver’s license too! Shocked me as I’ve been driving for umpteen million years (it seems). Thought the questions were worded to fail as they included choices that applied to similar situations. Did what you did, I studied and passed my test yesterday, only missing one (who knew those tractor things could go as fast as 25 mph?). Funny thing was the questions for my retesting seemed much simpler…go figure. Congratulations Lauren 🙂 The salad sounds and looks fabulous!
I failed. Miserably. Not even close. What a joke. I’m never moving states again, just in case the state we move to requires a written test.
Salad looks fantastic!
Strawberry and bacon in a salad pretty much means it’s a perfect salad 🙂
P.s. I have NEVER had a good experience at the DMV so I feel ya… the last time I went there I left crying. The last 2 times, actually. Who knew changing my last name after a marriage was virtually IMPOSSIBLE?! Didn’t help that I had the rudest lady to ever walk the planet “helping” me….Ok, done with my rant 🙂
You had me at bacon.
Thank you for sharing the DMV test. We just had a teenager take the Washington test so thankfully the questions were really similar to ours.
Wow this is definitely my kind of salad!
The serving portion should say 1 because I’d eat the entire thang! Right-o I would!
I took the test…hate the left-turn-into-one-way-street question! I can’t wait to make this salad 🙂
Failed the quiz by one question! Must go find bacon to soothe my ego… “/
I am with you on the DMV! Us Canadians will have trouble with US tests because everything is in different measurements! How many feet can you park from a fire hydrant, what speed to you drive in a residential area if there is no speed posted, etc. I was like “can I answer in meters and km?” HA!
Great recipe 🙂
I know right? At first when I got to the states, I thought it was so dumb, but now I’m used to it all….unfortunately.
Hhahaha god, I hate the DMV, but I LOATHE the library even more! My library is SO rude. I STILL don’t have a card because each time I come in with the stuff they claimed I needed last time, they need something else. I’m like DAAAYMN son, who cares?! I’m renting Pretty Little Liars. Am I really a threat? WTH, yo. BTW, this salad is amazeballs.
I totally failed the quiz…… 🙂
Yup, took me 3 visits to the DMV to get mine, sheesh!! And they didn’t tell me about the skip button either. Salad looks super yummy!
The salad looks delicious but I had to comment on the DMV!
I moved to Portland two years ago and had the exact same experience…I too failed the first go round by one question (“if you are on a country road and a man on a horse raises his right hand, what does that mean?” ummm, howdy?) and I KNOW I was not told about the skip button. The second go around I used that skip button and made sure everyone around me knew about that skip button! It probably didn’t hurt that I had read the entire handbook from front to back just to be on the safe side 🙂
Glad you are finally an OR license carrying resident! We need to stick together!
GOOD MERCY! I’m making this immediately. And I’m totally not kidding. Three of my absolute favorites in one salad. Pure genius lady.
Ooh, awesome! 🙂 Hope you like it!
Oh, Lauren! I’ve had so much trouble with the DMV too! I can’t prove I live in Kansas because all bills are in my spouse’s name. It’s so frustrating!
FOUR tablespoons of sugar???? EEK! 🙂 x
It makes a lot of dressing! And all that sugar counteracts the tanginess of the yogurt. If you use all mayonnaise, reduce the sugar by 1 tablespoon.
Why comment “EEK!”….are you too perfect to add that much sugar to your dressing that makes so much!!
What is it with libraries? I had to present all kinds of proof, too, but didn’t have my voter’s registration with me. So the librarian asked me the name of my county commissioner – couldn’t do that, but I knew the precinct number, so she let me have the card. Sheesh, By the way, what really attracted me to this recipe is the dressing – it sounds great! I think I’ll give this salad a try this weekend. 🙂
This looks fabulous! I love strawberries in my salads.
Salad with bacon? You had me at bacon!
Also, Oregon state allows you to make a left turn at a red light if traffic permits?? (I took the test, haha)
Left turn if traffic permits onto a one-way street. LAME.
When I moved to NJ I had to re-take the written portion of the test and totally failed too.
Oh well.
This salad looks like it could help my wounded heart 🙂
That looks amazing! Perfect for a get together with friends!
Strawberries and bacon? Amazing!