A wilted spinach salad, simple and nourishing, offers an excellent way to incorporate fresh winter greens onto your supper table during the long, dark days of winter when hardy spinach is plentiful. Heating the spinach very slightly, as in this wilted spinach salad recipe requires, provides a dual purpose: not only does it make the dish more suitable for cold days when fresh, raw greens can be unappealing, but it also helps to mitigate the effects of oxalic acid - an antinutrient naturally found in spinach and other greens.
Barbara says
If this is a real photo - it looks delicious, and I have to try it out. Thanks
Catherine says
Absolutely heavenly recipe! Made this with the homemade honey mustard dressing and it was a huge hit! Thanks!
bobcat says
Ohhh thanks, that does help! Don't know how I missed that.
Jenny says
Devin -
The spinach in this salad will become slightly wilted when the warm dressing is added. It doesn't cook the greens through; rather, it just wilts them very slightly. So what you'll do is prepare the salad and set it aside then heat the bacon grease and honey mustard dressing until well-combined and pour that mixture over the spinach.
Hope that helps -
Jenny
Julie H. says
Love it! It's been awhile since I've had this type of salad and it's going on the menu for next week, thanks!
deana@lostpastremembered says
My mother used to make this... great memory and lovely recipe!
Marilyn says
My Dad used to wilt all kinds of greens for salad by pouring HOT
bacon grease over them. But he mixed a little cider vinegar into
the bacon grease.
lo says
This looks like a delicious take on my usual wilted spinach salad. Love the honey mustard variation!
Rebecca says
I think the spinach will get slightly wilted from the warm dressing?
It sounds so good, it makes me wish I had some leftover chicken since I have all of the other ingredients.
Living A Whole Life says
Yummy! I love wilted spinach salads and I will definitely be making this variation soon!
Karla
bobcat says
Where in the recipe does the spinach get wilted?
I never realized I needed to wilt spinach (always ate it raw), so I'm not sure how to do it. Do you put fat in the pan first, how long do I leave the spinach in there, etc?
Thank you!
CINDEE says
DITTO YOU LEFT OUT HOW TO WILT THE SPINACH, YOUR RECIEPE CALLS FOR UNCOOKED SPINACH....UGH. ALLOT OF TROUBLE TO TRACE A RECIEPE.....NOT GOOD
Jenny says
Cindee -
The instructions for wilting the spinach are included in the second step when a HOT dressing is added to uncooked spinach. And, yes, the recipe calls for uncooked spinach, because the spinach is wilted until tender in the second step. I know reading is hard and all, but, really ...