Pear, Lettuce and Shitake Bacon Salad
Course
Salads
Ingredients
5-6
shitake mushrooms
sliced thin
1/3
cup
Organic virgin olive oil
Sea salt
1/2
cup
walnuts
raw
1
head
butter lettuce
washed and spun dry
1
ripe pear
cored and sliced thin
2
tsp
organic white wine vinegar
Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350. Lightly coat mushrooms with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil.
Season with sea salt and place onto a 9×12 baking sheet. Bake 12-15 minutes or until brown and crispy. Remove from the oven and set aside.
Place walnuts into a frying pan and warm them on medium/low heat until lightly browned (7-10 minutes). Remove from the heat and set aside.
Lay a few pieces of lettuce onto each plate. Top with walnuts, pears and shitake bacon.
Whisk remaining olive oil (about 1/4 cup) with vinegar. Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Drizzle on top of salad.