Nectarine Salad With Warm Bacon and Nectarine Dressing

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By Bonnie S. Benwick

Artfully put your nectarines connected a furniture of greens and apical with crunchy sunflower seeds, crispy bacon and a lukewarm dressing made with bacon and nectarine preserves to amp up the spirit successful this salty and saccharine salad.

Look for antithetic varieties of nectarines, specified arsenic honeydew and mango, which volition adhd colour and flimsy variations successful flavor. Serve with lukewarm pita breadstuff oregon nan.

Storage: The crockery is champion eaten close away, but tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 3 days. If you bash not program to devour the full crockery successful 1 sitting, it is champion to refrigerate the fruit, greens and dressing successful abstracted containers.

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-6

For the salad

6 strips hickory-smoked bacon, positive 1 portion for the dressing
6 ample ripe nectarines, preferably 2 varieties (see headnote)
7 ounces greenish leafage lettuce and reddish leafage lettuce, washed, dried and torn into bite-size pieces
1/4 cups roasted unsalted shelled sunflower seeds, for serving
About 12 mint leaves, sliced into bladed strips, for serving

For the dressing

2 tablespoons bacon drippings
1/2 cupful fruity olive oil
2 to 4 scallions, coarsely chopped
1/4 cupful homemade oregon store-bought nectarine, peach oregon apricot preserves
1/4 cupful atom vino vinegar
1 spoon Dijon-style mustard
1/2 spoon good salt, positive much arsenic needed
1/4 teaspoons freshly crushed achromatic pepper, positive much arsenic needed

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (using each the dressing)

Calories
400
Fat
32 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
26 g
Sodium
300 mg
Cholesterol
15 mg
Protein
5 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
19 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Salad Days: Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season," by Pam Powell (Voyageur Press, 2011).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published July 26, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026