Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad

Got a crowd to feed for a summertime {or whatsoever time} get-together? Look no farther than this Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad every bit your go-to dish. With it's make-ahead convenience, ample size, in addition to fantastic flavors, it's perfect for backyard barbecues, potlucks, or the random Dominicus get-together.

I don't know close you, but I'm a total sucker for a beautiful make-ahead layered picnic salad. You know, the ones layered alongside iceberg lettuce, peas, in addition to all kinds of other goodies, slathered alongside a thick layer of creamy dressing all over the top, in addition to and therefore allowed to represent several hours or overnight to allow the flavors meld?

I recall it's therefore fun {& tasty} to intermission through those layers at serving time!

I was get-go introduced to these layered beauties yesteryear a friend who brought a repast spell I was recovering from operation a few years back. One of the dishes she brought was a make-ahead layered picnic salad. And I immediately fell inwards love.

I mean, who wouldn't? That salad was packed alongside therefore many delicious things.

The layers were only gorgeous.

And there's exactly something magical close how delicious the creamy hap layer of dressing is, in addition to how beautifully it combines alongside in addition to flavors the vegetable layers i time y'all dig into it alongside a serving spoon.

I was hooked. And accept been a make-ahead layered picnic salad fan always since.

Now, this version isn't the exact version my friend was therefore variety to spoil me with. No, this version is a fleck spicier ... getting a peachy zing inwards the dressing from a fleck of Frank's cayenne pepper sauce ... in addition to includes a layer of bluish cheese crumbles.

And my oh my, is it always good!

I highly recommend when you've got a crowd to feed ... for fabulous flavor, make-ahead convenience, in addition to a stunningly beautiful dish to serve upward ... await to Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad every bit your go-to dish.

Trust me, y'all in addition to your sense of savour buds volition live glad y'all did.

Make-Ahead Layered Picnic Salad
Source: Adapted from The Best of America's Test Kitchen, 2009
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
Salad:

1 head iceberg lettuce, roughly chopped {about 8 c.}
1 tsp. salt, divided
1/2 of a cerise onion, chopped
6 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
1 (12 oz.) package frozen peas, thawed {about 1 1/2 c.}
4 stalks celery, thinly sliced
1 cerise bell pepper, chopped
1 cucumber, halved, seeded, & thinly sliced
1 lb. bacon, cooked & crumbled
4 oz. blue cheese crumbles {about 1 c.}

Dressing:

1 1/2 c. mayonnaise
3 T. apple cider vinegar
1 T. Frank's Red Hot sauce
2 tsp. granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp. ground dark pepper

Directions

Place one-half of the lettuce inwards a large drinking glass serving bowl. Sprinkle alongside 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Layer remaining salad ingredients over lettuce inwards this order: onion, eggs, peas, celery, bell pepper, in addition to cucumber. Add remaining lettuce in addition to sprinkle alongside remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Sprinkle hap alongside bacon in addition to bluish cheese crumbles.
Combine all dressing ingredients inwards a bowl; stirring until good mixed. Spread over hap of the salad.
Cover bowl alongside plastic roll in addition to refrigerate at to the lowest degree 8 hours, in addition to upward to 24 hours.

Enjoy!

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