Recently, Florette Salad challenged me to post a recipe on my blog using any one of their products.
The obvious option was a salad, but I wasn’t sure what I was going to make at first; I’ve eaten so many salads lately, it had to be something a little bit different that wasn’t going to taste like rabbit food.
When I came across this recipe for mozzarella, bacon and roasted veg salad on Florette Salad’s website, I knew it was the one. There were a few good contenders on the website, which features a range of low calorie meals besides salads, but I liked this particular recipe because I’ve never heard of bacon and mozzarella being used together in a salad before and it allows you to enjoy a bit of the good (salad, roasted veg) with a bit of the bad (bacon, mozzarella).
The bacon and mozzarella went well together and, along with the roasted veg, made for a salad that looked really appealing and tasted even better. I’ll definitely be making this again!
Ingredients
Duo salad (I couldn’t find this so used ‘Sweet and crispy’ instead)
Red Pepper
Red Onions
Buffalo Mozzarella (ideally in small balls, but you can just chop up a larger ball like I did)
Bacon Lardons (I just chopped up a few slices of bacon)
Virgin Olive Oil
Balsamic Vinegar
Salt
Pepper
Method
1. Heat oven to 200 degrees.
2. Cut red pepper in half and discard all seeds. Skin the red onion and cut into eight pieces.
3. Put pepper and onions in a non stick roasting pan, drizzle with olive oil and roast for 15 minutes (I added some fresh thyme, which made for a delicious taste after roasting!)
4. Remove the pepper when the skin is starting to blacken, leaving the onions in for a further 10 minutes.
5. When cool, peel the skin off the pepper and cut in to long thin slices (this is a really messy job, but it’s worth it!)
4. Gently saute the sliced lardon pieces in a teaspoon of olive oil until golden brown.
5. Put Duo salad leaves in a bowl. Lay over the top the pepper slices and roasted onion. Pour over a slug of olive oil, some balsamic vinegar, and seasoning. Sprinkle over the Mozzarella balls and the hot lardons and serve.
Looking for new ideas for salads? You might like my recipe for chorizo and egg salad.
Florette Salad sent me a free cookery book and goodie bag, including salad vouchers, in return for writing this post. However, I was not obliged to write a positive review of their products.
That salad looks lovely. I like it when it’s not all rabbit food. I enjoy adding apple to salads to give it added sweetness.
Ooh yes, a good Waldorf salad is right up my street!
Oh sounds like a good recipe – would never think of putting bacon and mozzarella together but I bet it’s gorgeous x
A match made in heaven 🙂
I’ve never thought of roasting vegetables and using them in a salad- but it would definitely make me eat more salad, I’m not a fan of the usual bland cold salad but this sounds right up my street!
Definitely – the bacon and mozzarella really jazz up this salad!
Oh my word, I can’t believe how delicious that looks! I wouldn’t have thought of combining roast veg with bacon to make a salad at all. Drooling now….
It’s well worth a go at making this if you can spare the time. It was so tasty x
My husband always makes a fuss when we have salad for lunch but as both bacon and mozzarella are favourite foods I might just get away with this one.
This is what I love about this recipe! 🙂
This sounds delicious! I sometimes find salad a bit boring but this is definitely not that. x
Thanks Charlotte, I know what you mean. I’m not a big salad fan usually but this was lovely.
This looks like a great salad. You really can’t go wrong with bacon can you!
Definitely; the bacon makes the salad more exciting!
I always have something similar to this but I chuck on some mango as well x
Sounds delicious; good idea!
Roasting vegetables in a salad is the best although as a veggie I would substitute the bacon for Quorn chicken.
Sounds like a plan! Bacon is one of my favourite kinds of meat! x
yummm, it sounds good!
I wonder if smoked veggies will work in it as well.
That’s a great idea, I reckon they’d work well in this!
Aww amazing food from you! This sounds soo yummy!
Aww thanks Anna. It was pretty good 🙂
Ohmigod! That looks soooo delicious – I’d eat that any day of the week. x
Thanks , me too 😉
mmm this sounds yum! My husband is a huge fan of anything with bacon in so I’m sure I could sneak this salad past him!
The bacon definitely helped to win me over 🙂 Goes well with the mozzarella too x
This looks super yummy! I’m not a big salad fan but this does look great! Kaz x