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Lamb’s lettuce with bacon and croutons

The winter salad: nutty lamb’s lettuce, warm bacon, toasted bread, walnuts.

Time
20 min
Effort:
easy
Season
autumn, winter
  • classic
  • quick
  • light
  • low carb
Lamb’s lettuce with bacon and croutons on a plate

Ingredients for 4 portions

  • 250 glamb's lettuce
  • 120 gstreaky bacon
  • 3 slice(s)sliced toast bread
  • 50 gwalnuts
  • 1apples
  • 2 tbspvinegar
  • 3 tbsprapeseed oil
  • 1 tsphoney
  • 1 tspmedium mustard
  • to tastesalt
  • to tastepepper

The ingredients land on the shopping list as soon as the dish is in the week.

Possible allergens

Derived from the ingredients as they are typically composed.

  • Cereals containing gluten
  • Tree nuts
  • Mustard
  • Sulphites

Please check allergens and intolerances yourself — on the packaging, at the bakery, at the butcher's. Recipes change, and a list like this cannot take responsibility for that.

Nutrition per portion

Estimates computed from the ingredient list — with 4 portions per recipe.

Energy337 kcal
Protein9.8 g
Fat25.2 g
Carbohydrates15.2 g
of which sugar6.5 g
Fibre3.6 g
Salt1.7 g

Not counted because listed without a quantity: salt, pepper.

Computed with raw ingredients as bought. Cooking losses, peel, trimmings and what stays on the plate are not accounted for. Own dishes and ingredients “to taste” have no values.

Source: Max Rubner-Institut (2025), Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS) version 4.0, CC BY 4.0. The mapping of ingredients to BLS foods and the piece weights are the operator's own.

Estimates, not lab values — not a basis for medically prescribed meal plans.

Method

  1. 1

    Wash the lamb’s lettuce thoroughly (it is sandy), spin dry, cut the apple into batons.

  2. 2

    Dice the toast and fry crisp in a little oil, render the bacon in the pan.

  3. 3

    Whisk the vinegar, oil, honey, mustard, salt and pepper, add the warm bacon with its fat.

  4. 4

    Arrange the salad with apple and walnuts, warm dressing and croutons over the top.