This avocado bacon salad with spinach has a delicious honey mustard dressing that perfectly complements the crispy bacon and creamy avocado.
It’s salad season!
I love eating salad year-round, but obviously people tend to eat them more in the summer, so I plan on getting some more salad recipes up here in the next few months. Stay tuned.
This crispy bacon and avocado salad recipe is perfect for a hearty entree salad (it’s quite filling), but it would also work great as a side salad.
The pretty colors and bounty of veggies (and bacon and cheese haha) would make this the perfect crowd-pleasing salad to bring to a BBQ or potluck this summer.
This avocado and bacon salad is loaded with plenty of other tasty morsels – mini bocconcini (mozzarella balls), sweet little tomatoes, and red onions.
The honey mustard dressing can be whipped up in a flash. The flavors are a popular family favorite, and the chopped parsley that I added to it gives it a burst of freshness.
What’s not to like here?
Hope you love this easy avocado bacon salad recipe! Will you make it?
Tell me in the comments below! 🙂
Avocado Bacon Salad
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This avocado bacon salad with spinach has a delicious honey mustard dressing that perfectly complements the crispy bacon and creamy avocado.
Ingredients
- 6 strips bacon, cut into small pieces
- 12 ounces little tomatoes (e.g. grape or cherry)
- 1 (5 ounce) package baby spinach
- 2 avocados, diced
- 3.5 ounces mini bocconcini
- 2 tablespoons red onion, chopped
- Salt & pepper, to taste
Dressing:
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Pinch of garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
- Salt & pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Cut bacon into small pieces (I use kitchen shears to make this easy) and add it to a skillet over medium-high heat. Fry until crispy (about 10-12 minutes). Once it's cooked, discard the fat or save it for another use.
- Meanwhile, prep your other salad ingredients and add them to a large salad bowl.
- Add the dressing ingredients to a small bowl and whisk until combined.
- Toss salad with dressing and serve immediately.
Notes
As always, adjust salad dressing ingredients to your tastes (e.g. add more lemon or oil).
Courses Salad
Cuisine American
Love bacon in salad? You may also like my spinach salad with bacon and eggs.
Natasha's Sister says
Since I got you that bowl for your birthday, the least you could do is make me this salad but without bacon. Are you going to?
Natasha says
No.
Tracy | Baking Mischief says
Yes I will make this salad, Natasha! Obsessed with all these flavors together. Pinned for my next BBQ!
Natasha says
That’s great! Thanks, Tracy. Hope you like it!
Gloria Mellyn says
Natasha, Love your site and love all these healthy salads.
Thanks, Gloria in Arizona
Natasha says
Thanks so much, Gloria! 🙂