Blue Cheese Butter Lettuce Salad

Prep Time: 10 mins | Cook Time 2 mins | Course: Dinner | Servings: 6 

Blue cheese salad with a butter lettuce twist makes for a beautiful platter or bowl for your dinner table. The dressing is the perfect blend of tangy and mild with beautiful blue cheese folded in.

1 head butter lettuce, washed and wedged

1 tomato, diced or 1 cup cherry medley tomatoes, halved

2 green onions, diced

2-3 oz blue cheese, crumbled

2 strips bacon/turkey bacon, crumbled

Place washed butter lettuce on a serving platter and wedge into 6 or 8 servings. Cook a couple slices of bacon and crumble. Scatter tomatoes, green onions, bacon and blue cheese decoratively over platter and ladle dressing on top.

Blue Cheese Dressing:

½ cup mayonnaise

½ cup buttermilk

½ cup sour cream

1 Tbsp dijon mustard

1 Tbsp red wine vinegar

½ a lemon, juiced

Salt and pepper, to taste

½ tsp garlic powder

½ tsp tapatio

½ tsp worcestershire

3 oz blue cheese, crumbled 

Whisk mayonnaise, buttermilk, sour cream, dijon, vinegar and lemon juice together in a mason jar. Add seasonings and blue cheese and fold into dressing. Cap and store in the fridge until ready to use.