Receta Loaded Iceberg Steaks ♥ with Homemade Thousand Island Dressing
Today's quick 'n' easy 'n' versatile salad, just a thick slice of iceberg lettuce topped with summery BLT-ish vegetables and a drizzle of Homemade Thousand Island Dressing. Surprisingly filling! Low Carb. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free.
Please oh please, don't mock. Every year, I fall in love with a new vegetable, or well, better put, I experience a long-familiar vegetable with new appreciation. In 2017? Iceberg lettuce, ha!
It all started when for the first time in years, I made a batch of homemade salad dressing, the oh-so-lovely Thousand Island Dressing. One batch led to another and another, warranting a "3x5 recipe", the card stock I'm re-instituting for house specialties and meal standards, all kept handy in a wood 3x5 recipe box from my childhood. So yeah, 3x5 cards in digital 2017? Again, don't mock! :-)
Anyway, iceberg "wedges" taste great but are awkward for loading up with other ingredients. Enter iceberg lettuce "steaks" – just thick slices cut from the midsection of a head of lettuce, all crunch, so fresh, so summery.
Give it a whirl? I promise a warm welcome into the iceberg club!
RECIPE for LOADED ICEBERG STEAKS
Hands-on time: 5 minutes
Time to table: 5 minutes
Serves 1 to many
- 1 center-cut slice of iceberg lettuce, about 1 inch thick
- Cooked bacon bits
- Chopped tomato
- Fresh corn kernels
- Fresh dill or another herb, chopped
- Sunflower seeds
- For dressing, Thousand Island Dressing
- Other Ideas:
- Chopped radish or fennel or garden green pepper (for crunch)
- Whaddya got on hand? :-)
Remove the outer leaves from a whole small head of lettuce. With a long, sharp knife, cut through the center of the head, slicing about one-inch thick round iceberg "steaks". Carefully transfer each slice onto a plate. Top with bacon, tomato, corn, herbs, sunflower seeds and anything else you can think of! Top with Thousand Island Dressing.
ALANNA'S TIPS & KITCHEN NOTES
WEDGES vs STEAKS Wedges are the traditional way to cut iceberg lettuce but "steaks" just work better when you're loading stuff on top.
ICEBERG HEADS A head of iceberg yields only three or four "steaks". In fact, a smaller head works better because it's a little tricky to keep intact a wide slice of ettuce when moving it onto a plate.
INDIVIDUAL PLATES I tried serving Loaded Iceberg Steaks on a platter, thinking it would be pretty for a buffet. The platter was indeed pretty – but also unforgiving when people tried to move an individual slice onto their own plates. #Fail. So I'd recommend serving this salad on individual salad plates.
BACON, REALLY? Note to Vegetarians
A Veggie Venture is home of "veggie evangelist" Alanna Kellogg and the
famous asparagus-to-zucchini Alphabet of Vegetables.
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