Best 20 Wilted Lettuce Recipes

WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove from skillet, crumble and set aside.
• To the hot bacon drippings, add the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and pepper. Stir over medium heat until hot.
• In a large bowl, combine the lettuce and green onions. Add the warm dressing and toss to evenly coat. Sprinkle with bacon and serve.

CLASSIC WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels to drain. , To the hot drippings, add the vinegar, water, onions, sugar, salt and pepper, stirring until sugar is dissolved. , Place lettuce in a salad bowl; immediately pour dressing over and toss lightly. Top with egg. Serve immediately.

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Place lettuce and onion in a large salad bowl; set aside. In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp (do not drain). Stir in vinegar, water, salt and pepper. Pour over lettuce and toss gently until well coated. Top with egg. Serve immediately.

MY MOM'S WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Wash the lettuce several times; drain.
• Clean and cut the onions into the lettuce.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
• Dressing: Heat dressing ingredients to boiling; pour over lettuce while boiling hot.
• Stir and mix well.
• Serve immediately.

GRANDMA'S WILTED LETTUCE WITH HOT BACON DRESSING

Steps:

• 1. If you are making Wilted Lettuce, put the eggs on to cook, then wash the leaf lettuce carefully. I remove all hard parts, like the spine, of the leaves. Put the leaves in a salad spinner to remove the excess water, or allow the leaves to drain in a colander lined with paper towels. Chop some onion and set aside. When the eggs have cooked about 15 minutes in boiling water, drain the water, and refill the pan with cool water to allow the eggs to cool. Assemble the lettuce leaves and chopped onion in a large salad bowl. Chop the eggs and set aside. THEN prepare the Hot Bacon Dressing.
• 2. Fry the diced bacon until crispy, then remove the bacon to a paper towel to drain. Reserve about 1 1/2 Tablespoons of bacon grease in the skillet and remove the rest.
• 3. While the diced bacon is frying, stir together the sugar, flour, salt, and pepper in a small bowl.
• 4. Add the sugar mixture to the 1 1/2 Tablespoons of hot bacon grease, cooking over medium heat and stirring.
• 5. Add the vinegar and water and stir constantly, bringing it to a boil. Boil about 2 minutes, until slightly thickened. (If too thick, add a little water.)
• 6. Remove from heat and cool until warm. Pour over lettuce & onion, tossing the salad until coated and wilted. (The hotter the dressing, the more it will wilt. Your call.) Top with the chopped hardboiled eggs and crispy diced bacon. Dinner is served! =^..^=

OLD-FASHIONED WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat the eggs, milk, vinegar, salt and pepper until smooth; set aside. In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon to paper towels to drain, reserving drippings., Whisk egg mixture into drippings. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture reaches 160° or is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. , In a large salad bowl, combine the lettuce, onion and bacon. Pour dressing over salad; toss to coat. Serve immediately.

WILTED LEAF LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large salad bowl, toss lettuce, onion and radishes; set aside. In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp; remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towel. To the drippings, add vinegar, brown sugar, mustard, salt and pepper; bring to a boil. Pour over lettuce and toss; sprinkle with bacon. Serve immediately.

WARM WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Toss lettuce, radishes and onions in a large salad bowl; set aside. In a skillet, cook bacon until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain. To the hot drippings, add vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and pepper; stir well. Immediately pour dressing over salad; toss gently. Crumble the bacon and sprinkle on top.

SCALLOPS WITH TARRAGON CREAM AND WILTED BUTTER LETTUCE

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in small skillet over medium heat. Add shallots; sauté 3 minutes. Add wine; boil until reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Add cream, 3 teaspoons tarragon, and Pernod, if using. Simmer until sauce coats back of spoon, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper; set aside.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle scallops with salt and pepper; cook until brown and almost cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer scallops to plate. Add lettuce to drippings in skillet; toss until beginning to wilt, about 1 minute. Spoon sauce onto 2 plates; divide lettuce between plates. Place 4 scallops on each plate; sprinkle with remaining 1 teaspoon tarragon.

WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine lettuce and onions in a large salad bowl. Sprinkle with pepper; set aside. , In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Stir the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and salt in drippings. Pour over lettuce and toss gently until well coated. Top with egg. Serve immediately.

WILTED LETTUCE WITH BACON

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet; cook and stir over medium-high heat until evenly browned and crispy, about 10 minutes. Add lettuce; cook and stir in the bacon grease until lettuce wilts, 2 to 3 minutes. Mix buttermilk, salt, and pepper into bacon-lettuce mixture; cook and stir until buttermilk sauce thickens, 5 to 10 minutes. Whisk flour into sauce if needed to thicken.

MOM'S WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Cut lettuce.
• add sliced onion and sugar, toss.
• Fry bacon till crisp- remove from pan.
• Drain and crumble bacon.
• Add vinegar and water to bacon grease- let come to a boil.
• Pour over lettuce onion and bacon.
• Mix well.
• Serve at once.

WILTED LETTUCE AND ONIONS

Steps:

• 1. Cut fresh lettuce from garden, or buy at your local store/farm stand, and green onions
• 2. Wash and dry lettuce. Cut off roots and wash onions, chop onions
• 3. Fry bacon, add olive oil to equal 1/2 cup total. When bacon is ready chop and set aside, leave grease in skillet, add vinegar, black pepper, and Splenda or sugar to skillet, reduce heat to low.
• 4. Mix lettuce, onions and top with chopped bacon, when your ready to eat quickly add the desired amount of hot bacon dressing to taste. Enjoy!!!

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• 1. 1 Head 1eaf lettuce - rinsed, dried and torn into bite-size pieces Green onions with tops, thinly sliced 1. Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove from skillet, crumble and set aside.
• 2. 2. To the hot bacon drippings, add the vinegar, lemon juice, sugar and pepper. Stir over medium heat until hot.
• 3. 3. In a large bowl, combine the lettuce and green onions. Add the warm dressing and toss to evenly coat. Sprinkle with bacon and serve.

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Cut up lettuce and onion tops, place in a large bowl.
• Place bacon on top of lettuce.
• Have all the rest of the ingredients ready, because this goes quickly!
• Pour out all but 3T. of the bacon grease.
• Set the skillet on medium heat and add the cream, salt and sugar.
• From this point you will be whisking constantly.
• Heat the cream until it begins to steam - don't let it bubble.
• Add the vinegar slowly, whisking constantly until the mixture begins to steam.
• Pour the mixture over the lettuce, toss and serve immediatly.
• Make sure you have some good bread to soak up the leftover juices - trust me, folks will fight for the last drops!
• Note: All the whisking is to keep the dressing from "breaking", or separating. If it does, no problem. It's not as pretty, but it still tastes fabulous.

WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp; drain off the drippings, saving 1 tablespoon of the drippings.
• Crumble bacon.
• Add vinegar to reserved drippings, along with the flour and the water. Let simmer a few minutes.
• Sprinkle on the brown sugar.
• Now pour this over the lettuce, cut up eggs, and bacon.

WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Clean and rip up lettuce into larger serving bowl.
• Chop onions and add to bowl with lettuce.
• Fry bacon until crisp in frying pan and drain on paper towels.
• Crumble bacon when cool.
• Add vinegar and water to bacon fat in frying pan and bring to boil.
• Pour boiling bacon grease and vinegar mixture over salad greens, stirring constantly while lettuce wilts.
• Mix well.
• Garnish with bacon bits before serving.

SMOKY MOUNTAIN WILTED LETTUCE

Steps:

• Put lettuce, scallions, and eggs in a salad bowl.
• Cook bacon in a heavy skillet over moderate heat, turning occasionally, until crisp, about 5 minutes. Transfer to paper towels to drain and pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat from the skillet. Add vinegar and sugar to bacon fat and cook over moderate heat, whisking, until sugar dissolves. Whisk in cream, salt, and pepper, then boil until thickened slightly, about 2 minutes.
• Pour hot dressing over salad and toss well. Season salad with salt and pepper, if necessary, and crumble bacon over top.

GRANDMA RICHTER'S WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Place salad ingredients into a very large bowl. (I put mine into a 13 cup size Tupperware bowl.)
• 2. In another bowl, add the creamy dressing ingredients. Stir thoroughly to blend the ingredients together.
• 3. Pour the creamy dressing, a little at a time, over the salad, and stir gently to combine.
• 4. Once the creamy dressing has been completely mixed into the salad, serve the salad immediately.
• 5. *Note: When making this salad, you can pretty much use any type of lettuce, but my daughter and I agree, we much prefer using romaine lettuce; picked fresh from ones garden, but you can use store bought lettuce, even the iceberg lettuce. Also, when adding the leaves to the bowl, I pretty much left the leaves whole, except for the leaves that were a bit too large, then I tore those in half.

TOSSED WILTED LETTUCE SALAD

Steps:

• Place lettuce and onions in a salad bowl; set aside. In a skillet, fry bacon until crisp. Remove bacon; set aside. In the drippings, combine all remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Immediately pour over salad. Crumble bacon and add to salad; toss well. Serve immediately.