This classic wedge salad is loaded with bacon, blue cheese, tangy marinated red onions, tomatoes, and blue cheese dressing. It's fast, easy, and tastes like the steakhouse wedge salad from your favorite restaurant.
The Cooper's Hawk Chopped Wedge Salad is one of our favorite restaurant salads, and we're big fans of steakhouse wedge salads at other restaurants too. This classic wedge salad is an ode to all of the wedge salads we love. It's the perfect side dish to impress your family or friends.
Looking for other great salad recipes? Try our rotisserie chicken garden salad or chopped asian salad.
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Ingredients
- Head of iceberg lettuce
- Bacon
- Cherry or grape tomatoes
- Crumbled blue cheese. If you don't like blue cheese, you can leave it off or replace it with a different type of cheese. Fresh parmesan or feta would be great alternatives.
- Red onion
- Dressing and marinade ingredients: olive oil, red wine vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, milk, mayonnaise, greek yogurt or sour cream, fresh garlic, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, ground cayenne, crushed red pepper, salt, black pepper
Instructions
Step 1: Make the onion marinade. Combine olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, fresh garlic, Italian, crushed red pepper, salt, and black pepper in a jar or bowl with a lid. Add thinly sliced red onions to the jar or bowl with the marinade and place in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve the salad.
Step 2: Make the blue cheese dressing. Combine mayonnaise, greek yogurt or sour cream, blue cheese crumbles, Worcestershire sauce, milk, a dash of hot sauce, garlic powder, ground cayenne, black pepper, and salt. If you don't like blue cheese, just omit it. This dressing still tastes great without it.
Step 3: Cut the lettuce. If there are any wilted leaves on the outside of your head of lettuce, peel them off and discard them. Cut the head of lettuce in half, then cut each half in half (to make fourths). Finally, cut the butt end off each wedge.
Step 4: Compile the wedges and serve. Top each wedge with crumbled bacon, tomatoes, blue cheese, blue cheese dressing, and the marinated red onions. I like to drizzle a little bit of the onion marinade over the top. It's sooo good!
Suggested Pairings
Looking for good recipes to pair with this? Try these:
- Garlic Parmesan Angel Hair Pasta
- Air Fryer Buffalo Chicken Wings
- Plantain Crust Cheesy Garlic Breadsticks (Gluten Free)
Frequently asked questions
Yep! This recipe is great without blue cheese. Just omit blue cheese from both the dressing and the salad toppings. This salad would be great topped with fresh parmesan cheese or feta instead!
A wedge salad is usually made with un-chopped iceberg lettuce. A wedge of iceberg lettuce is topped with a variety of toppings and cut with a fork and knife while it's being eaten.
You can, but this dressing is really good, easy, and made with several typical pantry ingredients. If you use a store-bought dressing, pick a good one. The dressing really makes this salad.
Classic Wedge Salad Recipe
This classic wedge salad is loaded with bacon, blue cheese, tangy marinated red onions, tomatoes, and blue cheese dressing. It's fast, easy, and tastes like the steakhouse wedge salad from your favorite restaurant.
4
servings20
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minutes745
kcal20
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Ingredients
- For the red onions:
½ ½ large red onion, sliced thinly
¾ cup ¾ olive oil
¼ cup ¼ red wine vinegar
Juice of Juice of ½ lemon
2 cloves 2 garlic, minced
1 teaspoon 1 Italian seasoning
½ teaspoon ½ crushed red pepper
¾ teaspoon ¾ salt
½ teaspoon ½ black pepper
- For the blue cheese dressing:
½ cup ½ mayonnaise
½ cup ½ greek yogurt or sour cream
2 tablespoons 2 milk (use whatever you drink)
1 teaspoon 1 Worcestershire sauce
Dash of Dash of hot sauce
2.5 ounces 2.5 crumbled blue cheese
1 teaspoon 1 garlic powder
¼ teaspoon ¼ ground cayenne
1 teaspoon 1 black pepper
½ teaspoon ½ salt
- For the salad:
1 1 head of iceberg lettuce
8 slices 8 bacon, cooked and chopped
1 cup 1 cherry or grape tomatoes, quartered
1 cup 1 crumbled blue cheese
Directions
- First, make the onion marinade. Combine olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, fresh garlic, Italian seasoning, crushed red pepper, salt, and black pepper in a jar or bowl with a lid. Add the red onions and place in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve the salad.
- Combine mayonnaise, greek yogurt or sour cream, blue cheese crumbles, Worcestershire sauce, milk, hot sauce, garlic powder, ground cayenne, black pepper, and salt, and set aside.
- If there are any wilted leaves on the outside of your head of lettuce, peel them off and discard them. Cut the head of lettuce in half, then cut each half in half (to make fourths). Finally, cut the butt end off each wedge.
- Top each wedge with crumbled bacon, tomatoes, blue cheese, blue cheese dressing, and the marinated red onions. I like to drizzle a little bit of the onion marinade over the top too.
- Serve and enjoy!
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