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

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.
| Energy | 337 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 9.8 g |
| Fat | 25.2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 15.2 g |
| of which sugar | 6.5 g |
| Fibre | 3.6 g |
| Salt | 1.7 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
Wash the lamb’s lettuce thoroughly (it is sandy), spin dry, cut the apple into batons.
- 2
Dice the toast and fry crisp in a little oil, render the bacon in the pan.
- 3
Whisk the vinegar, oil, honey, mustard, salt and pepper, add the warm bacon with its fat.
- 4
Arrange the salad with apple and walnuts, warm dressing and croutons over the top.