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Iceberg Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing is a steakhouse classic with a huge crunch, topped with homemade dressing, hard-boiled eggs and bacon.

Yields4 Servings

 1 head of iceberg lettuce
 8 slices bacon
 2 hardboiled eggs, chopped
 tomatoes
 red onion cut in rings (optional)
Blue Cheese Dressing
 1 cup crumbled blue cheese
 ½ cup sour cream
 ⅓ cup mayonnaise
 2 tbsp canola oil
 1 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
 1 tsp Dijon mustard
 ½ tsp salt
 ½ tsp coarse ground black pepper

1

Place four salad plates in fridge to chill. Mash 1/2 of the blue cheese with the back of a fork in a medium bowl until mostly smooth. Add the sour cream, mayonnaise, oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.

2

Add the remaining cheese and mix gently, leaving clumps of cheese. Cover and refrigerate.

3

Cook bacon until crispy and deeply browned. Cool and crumble.

4

Core the lettuce and cut it into quarters. Place a wedge on each of the chilled salad plates. Spoon about 3 T. of the dressing over each wedge. Sprinkle with crumbled bacon, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and onions, if desired.

Ingredients

 1 head of iceberg lettuce
 8 slices bacon
 2 hardboiled eggs, chopped
 tomatoes
 red onion cut in rings (optional)
Blue Cheese Dressing
 1 cup crumbled blue cheese
 ½ cup sour cream
 ⅓ cup mayonnaise
 2 tbsp canola oil
 1 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
 1 tsp Dijon mustard
 ½ tsp salt
 ½ tsp coarse ground black pepper

Directions

1

Place four salad plates in fridge to chill. Mash 1/2 of the blue cheese with the back of a fork in a medium bowl until mostly smooth. Add the sour cream, mayonnaise, oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.

2

Add the remaining cheese and mix gently, leaving clumps of cheese. Cover and refrigerate.

3

Cook bacon until crispy and deeply browned. Cool and crumble.

4

Core the lettuce and cut it into quarters. Place a wedge on each of the chilled salad plates. Spoon about 3 T. of the dressing over each wedge. Sprinkle with crumbled bacon, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and onions, if desired.

Iceberg Wedge Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
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