Simple salad with fresh peppery watercress and a hot bacon apple cider dressing.
Watercress salad is one of our favorite family salads.
We serve it with a warm, sweet and sour bacon dressing that perfectly complements the peppery watercress greens.
Elise Bauer
I love this watercress salad!
It’s like a wilted spinach salad, only less wilted, and more peppery.
This throw in of watercress is thicker, crunchier, and stronger flavored than the tender watercress grown hydroponically.
Elise Bauer
Bacon or no bacon?
In our family’s opinion, the watercress salad really must be made with bacon fat and crumbled bacon.
you’ve got the option to substitute olive oil, but it’s just not the same.
It will hold up better to the hot dressing.)
Set aside in a serving bowl.
Remove the bacon from the pan and put on a paper towel.
Keep the bacon fat in the pan.
Add the cider vinegar and sugar to the bacon fat.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper, add a pinch of ground mustard and a pinch of paprika.
Taste and adjust seasoning.
Bring the dressing to a simmer.
Pour over the watercress.
Crumble the bacon over the top.
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