Description
Our classic Seven Layer Salad recipe with a few (healthier) twists! Always a hit and really easy to make! Perfect for holidays, get-togethers or weeknight meals!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/2 head of ice berg lettuce, rip into small pieces
- 1 small bag frozen peas, thawed and uncooked
- 1/2 cup sweet yellow onion, diced (or white onion)
- 1 cup celery, sliced
- 1 1/2 cup mayo (homemade or store-bought)
- 1 tablespoon honey (to taste)
- 1 cup cheese (feel free to use goat cheese, shredded or dairy-free)
- 1 cup bacon bits (about 8 slices of cooked bacon)
Instructions
- Layer: In a 9×9 pan, start layering this salad with lettuce on the bottom and then the thawed peas, diced onion, and celery.
- Mayo Mixture: Put mayo and honey in a small bowl and mix to combine. Taste and add additional honey, to taste. Spread this mixture on top of the salad in an even layer.
- Top the Salad: Sprinkle the cheese on top and the bacon bits.
- Serve: Enjoy this delicious salad with any main dish – we love it with Smoked Cornbread and Smoked Chili!
Notes
- Flexible: salad ingredients are SO easy to adjust, if you have a bigger or smaller pan. Amounts listed can be used as suggestions and if you end up adding more or less of something, it will still work perfectly.
- Lettuce: feel free to use other types of lettuce if you want, we have always used iceberg and it has a nice crunch to it.
- Mayo: I grew up using Hellmann’s mayo, but if you want a healthier version we love our basic homemade mayo!
- Bacon Bits: we grew up using store-bought bacon bits, but if you want a healthier version you can always cook your favorite paleo/Whole30 bacon and chop it up into your own bacon bits!
- Prep Ahead: If you want to prepare ahead of time, simply layer everything until you get to the mayo sauce. Cover and refrigerate. Prepare the mayo sauce, cover and refrigerate. Right before serving add the mayo sauce layer and then the cheese and bacon.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6oz
- Calories: 235
- Sugar: 3.3 g
- Sodium: 417.7 mg
- Fat: 20.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 7.3 g
- Protein: 5.9 g
- Cholesterol: 43.2 mg