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Butter Leaf Lettuce Salad with a Lemon Dill Dressing

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This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad! Perfect for easy summer entertaining.

This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad!

The store was out of my regular butter leaf lettuce, so I picked up some red battavia lettuce instead, which is actually quite similar in taste and texture. I also think it looks really nice in the photos.

I would definitely make this salad with a tender lettuce such as butter leaf, red battavia, or bibb vs. something like romaine.

This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad!

I just fancied a nice dill dressing for some reason. I didn’t want to make anything too complicated, so I whisked together some Dijon mustard, garlic, salt & pepper, and olive oil (my go-to vinaigrette), and then I added in some fresh chopped dill.

The dressing is light, but the Dijon and garlic nicely emulsify so it thickens up a bit.

This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad! This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad!

As always, I use my mandoline slicer to slice the radishes paper-thin. I like to do this because I find radishes a bit too sharp when they’re raw, and cutting them so thin takes a lot of that edge off. It’s funny… for my last birthday my mom bought me this protective kitchen glove to use for things like grating or using a mandoline.

At first I was amused (I’m normally a minimalist in the kitchen), and then I tried it and realized it’s a total game changer. I now slice small veggie (like radishes) on my mandoline with ease knowing that my fingers are safe. Here’s a pair on Amazon if you’re curious!

This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad!

This salad makes me happy just looking at it, and it tastes even better! 😉

Will you make this tender lettuce salad?

This butter leaf lettuce salad with a lemon dill dressing, garlic croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and radishes is the perfect easy-to-make showstopping summer salad!
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Butter Leaf Lettuce Salad with a Lemon Dill Dressing

A colorful simple summer salad! 

Course Salad
Cuisine American
Keyword butter leaf lettuce salad
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4
Author Natasha Bull

Ingredients

  • 1 head butter leaf lettuce torn into bite-size pieces
  • 1 small bunch radishes sliced paper-thin
  • 2 eggs hard boiled 
  • 1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped

Croutons:

  • 1/3 baguette cut into croutons
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Salt & pepper to taste

Dressing:

  • 2 heaping teaspoons Dijon mustard
  • 1-2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon fresh dill chopped 
  • Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Preheat over to 350F, and move the rack to the top position. 
  2. Add the crouton ingredients to a baking sheet and toss together until evenly coated. Bake for 15 minutes.
  3. Cook your eggs. I boiled mine for 8 minutes. Let them cool in cold water until you're ready to peel them & assemble the salad. 
  4. Meanwhile, add all the dressing ingredients to a small bowl except for the olive oil and dill. Slowly whisk the oil in a little bit at a time until you have a nicely emulsified mixture. Add the dill in right before you're ready to serve the salad.
  5. Prep your radishes, parlsey, and lettuce, and add them to a large bowl. Peel & cut the eggs up into whatever size pieces you prefer. Add the croutons. Pour dressing over top or toss the salad together. Serve immediately. 

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  1. kellie@foodtoglow says

    5 stars
    I am with you in loving a dill based dressing. It is so underused but is really terrific drizzled over salads like this and even over a _ dare I even mention it without seeming naff – avo toast topped with hard-boiled eggs. Your images here are lust-making. I haven’t seen red batavia that I am aware of, but the colour is very eye-catching.

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    • Natasha says

      Aww thanks, Kelly! Nothing wrong with avo toast!! 😉 Yes, it’s a bit of a crapshoot what kinds of lettuces appear here. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised, but then you get used to a certain item and it just disappears.

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  5. Marissa says

    5 stars
    I just love the flavors and textures going on in this salad, Natasha. To me, dill is one of those quintessential summer tastes – I love that you added it to the dressing here.

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    • Natasha says

      Thank you! Yeah, I was definitely pleased with it and enjoyed scoffing it after I took the photos. 🙂

      Reply

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