Valentine’s Day Salad with Bacon Roses and Strawberry Hearts
If you’re looking to make the perfect Valentine’s Day salad, I’ll show you how to make bacon roses and strawberry hearts, perfect for dressing up your salads or garnishing your holiday plates year-round!
This is really simple to make, yet very elegant and impressive. With fresh strawberries in season here in Spain, I couldn’t resist adding a few strawberry hearts to the salad.
I normally drizzle salads like this one with a homemade balsamic reduction. It’s a super simple, mildly sweet addition that is perfect for salads that incorporate fruits and/or cheeses.
To give the salad a bright, visual appeal, I used baby spinach as the base of the salad. In some areas, I made little “nests” of spinach leaves for nestling the bacon roses inside.I kept this salad simple to highlight the bacon roses and strawberry hearts. That said, you can personalize it by adding other ingredients to suit your taste. This salad would be lovely sprinkled with crumbled goat cheese and some walnuts, perhaps.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups baby spinach
- 6 Strips bacon
- 4 strawberries
- balsamic reduction or other dressing
- extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil