Best Breakfast Salad Recipe
Our best breakfast salad recipe makes a healthy-ish breakfast salad with soft boiled eggs, crispy bacon, mushrooms sautéed in the bacon juices, crunchy lettuce, sweet cherry tomatoes, and bright tangy pickles. It’s for those of you who can’t decide between a healthy breakfast or comforting bacon and eggs and it’s this week’s edition of Weekend Eggs.
Servings: 2
Calories: 809kcal
Ingredients
Salad dressing
- 1 tbsp whole Dijon whole grain mustard
- 1 tbsp finely minced scallion
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt
- ½ tsp freshly ground pepper
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- ½ tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cup virgin olive oil
Salad
- 200 g mixed lettuce leaves
- 12 sprigs of dill
- 1 small cucumber sliced
- 1 avocado peeled and diced
- 12 cherry tomatoes sliced in half
- 1 cup of mixed Mexican escabeche or other vegetable pickles
- 1 tbsp pickled onions
- 1 tbsp pickled purple cabbage
- 2 large eggs
- 4 rashers of bacon sliced into pieces
- 1 dozen brown mushrooms cleaned and sliced
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- ½ tsp chilli flakes
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prepare the classic salad dressing: transfer all the ingredients to a glass jar, seal the lid, and shake, then set aside.
- Wash, pat-dry and prep the lettuce leaves, sprigs of dill, cucumber slices, cherry tomato halves, and diced avocado, and arrange them prettily on the plates, beginning with the lettuce leaves, then the cucumber, cherry tomatoes, and avocado. Place the pickles in between the fresh vegetable pieces.
- Make the soft-boiled eggs following these instructions and when ready transfer to a bowl of cold water until you need them, then peel the eggs in the water, dry them, slice them in half, and arrange on the plates.
- Fry the bacon in your favourite pan until half-done to your liking, then mid-way through set the bacon pieces aside, tilt the pan so the bacon juices fall to one side, then fry the mushrooms in the bacon juices.
- Transfer the boiled egg halves, fried bacon and mushrooms to the salad plates, arranging them prettily.
- Drizzle on some salad dressing and serve immediately with the jar of dressing, salt and pepper. Encourage your breakfast partner to toss the salad and season to their taste.