Keto Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

Keto spinach salad with warm bacon dressing is true comfort food. This classic salad is amazingly delicious and bursting with bold flavors!

This keto spinach salad with warm bacon dressing combines fresh spinach with bacon and hard boiled eggs. You can also add some thinly sliced red onions if you’d like. Then we top it with an incredibly delicious warm bacon dressing that combines the perfect balance of sweet and tangy flavors. This salad is easy enough to serve for everyday meals, yet elegant enough to serve for holidays and special occasions.

Let’s talk about our spinach!

Spinach is an awesome food choice when following a low carb keto plan! It’s low in calories and in carbs but rich in nutrients. I used baby spinach for my salad, but regular spinach works great too. Baby spinach is simply spinach that’s harvested at an earlier time, so its leaves are smaller. For this salad, we’re using raw spinach. I chose to remove the stems of my spinach for this salad, but you can leave them on if you’d like. I also love cooked spinach. You can blanch, saute, or steam spinach. One of my favorite dishes is keto creamed spinach, which is the closest I’ve gotten to my grandma’s creamed spinach, which I always loved! Another great thing about spinach is that you add it to casseroles, dips, egg dishes, pestos, sauces, smoothies, and soups!

What other ingredients go into this keto spinach salad with warm bacon dressing?

This salad is amazingly delicious while also being amazingly easy to make. We top our spinach with bacon and hard boiled eggs. I used thick cut bacon and used one piece for each of the four salads this recipe makes. If you’d like, you can use regular cut bacon for your salad and you can use even more bacon per salad as well. I diced the raw bacon and fried it until it was nice and crisp. Alternately, you can fry then crumble your bacon. You will want to reserve 3 tablespoons of bacon fat to use for the dressing. When I make a big batch of hard boiled eggs, I cook them on the stovetop. But for small batches, I use my Dash rapid egg cooker. I love, love, love this adorable appliance.😊It’s optional, but you can also top your salad with some thinly sliced red onions.

How do I make the dressing for this keto spinach salad with warm bacon dressing?

The dressing for this spinach salad is truly amazing! I remember my brother telling me years ago about this salad and how much he loved it. Of course, he was in Wisconsin and I was in Colorado, so I never got to try his salad! But now I’ve created a keto version and my family loves it. Even my son, who isn’t usually fond of spinach, ate half a salad and then went back and ate the other half. We start by heating our reserved bacon fat in the same skillet we cooked our bacon in. Once heated, we add red wine vinegar, keto granulated sugar, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper. Then we just whisk the ingredients together until they’re combined and the dressing is heated through. You can either pour or spoon the dressing over the salad which wilts the spinach and creates an amazingly delicious dish!

Here are a few more delicious keto salads I think you’ll enjoy!

Asparagus Salad with Dijon Vinaigrette

Caesar Salad with Keto Croutons

Keto Cobb Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing

Low Carb Ground Turkey Taco Salad

Helpful Hints:

*I remove the stems from my spinach, but you can leave them on if you’d like.

*If you’d like to serve this salad family style, you can serve it as one big salad on a serving platter.

Main Kitchen Equipment and Utensils:

• Medium skillet
• Measuring spoons

Splash of Encouragement:

***You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence. Acts 2:28***