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Candied Bacon Green Salad

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A Sweet and Savory Dinner Option
skill level
Easy
time
1-30min
servings
4
cost
$
Contributed by : Good Morning America/Jamie Oliver
This is a great twist on your standard warm salad! It was cleverly blends a candied layer with crispy smoked bacon. Add a good green salad and some seasonal fruit and you''e on to a winning combo.
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  • For the Creamy French Dressing1/3 cup good-quality extra virgin olive oil3 tablespoon white wine vinegarI heaping teaspoon Dijon mustard1 heaping tablespoon natural yogurtSea salt and freshly ground black pepperFor the Salad12 slices of smoked bacon
  • the best quality you can afford1 clove garlic
  • peeled3 slices of fresh white breadOlive oilFreshly ground black pepper2 heaped teaspoons turbinado sugar3 clementines5 large handfuls of mixed salad leaves
  • washed and spun dry1 pomegranateA small bunch of fresh mint
  • leaves picked
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  • step 1
    ingredients 1/3 cup good-quality extra virgin olive oil
    3 tablespoon white wine vinegar
    1 heaping teaspoon Dijon mustard
    1 heaping tablespoon natural yogurt
    Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 
    instructions To make your dressing, put all the ingredients into a large serving bowl, whisk together, and season to taste. You want it to be slightly too acidic, so add a splash more vinegar if you think it needs it. Put to one side. 
  • step 2
    ingredients 12 slices of smoked bacon, the best quality you can afford 
    instructions Get a large frying pan on medium heat, add the bacon and cook until lightly golden (but not really crispy), turning it every so often. Remove the bacon to a plate. 
  • step 3
    ingredients 1 clove garlic, peeled 
    3 slices of fresh white bread
    instructions Squash your garlic clove and add it to the pan, then turn the heat up a little and tear your bread into medium-sized chunks. Drop them into the pan so they suck up all the flavors and become crispy and golden, then remove to the plate with your bacon. 
  • step 4
    ingredients Freshly ground black pepper
    2 heaped teaspoons turbinado sugar
    1 clementine
    instructions Wipe the pan clean with paper towels, then put the bacon back in with the sugar or honey and the juice of 1 clementine. Concentrate on what you're doing, and make sure you don't touch or taste anything at any point because it will burn you. Stir everything around in the pan so the syrups starts to stick to the bacon. 
  • step 5
    ingredients Olive oil
    instructions As soon as the bacon slices are perfectly caramelized and sticky, use tongs to carefully move them to an oiled plate and leave to cool down for a minute. Whatever shape you leave the bacon in at this point is how it will set, so give the slices a bend or a twist. 
  • step 6
    ingredients 2 clementines
    instructions Peel the remaining clementines and slice them into rounds. 
  • step 7
    ingredients 5 large handfuls of mixed salad leaves, washed and spun dry
    instructions Grab your bowl of dressing and add your salad leaves. 
  • step 8
    ingredients 1 pomegranate 
    instructions Halve the pomegranate and use a spoon to knock the back of each half and pop the seed over the salad. 
  • step 9
    ingredients A small bunch of fresh mint, leaves picked
    instructions Add your mint leaves, then use your hands to toss and dress everything thoroughly. 
  • step 10
    ingredients Croutons you made before
    instructions Lightly toss your croutons through the salad and lay your candied bacon on top. Place your clementine rounds on top of the salad, then pass the bowl around the table and let everyone serve themselves. 
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