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 equally your go-to dish.  With it's make-ahead convenience, ample size, together with fantastic flavors, it's perfect for backyard barbecues, potlucks, or the random Dominicus get-together.

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

I holler upward it's hence fun {& tasty} to interruption through those layers at serving time!

I was commencement introduced to these layered beauties past times a friend who brought a repast spell I was recovering from surgical operation a few years back.  One of the dishes she brought was a make-ahead layered picnic salad.  And I immediately  fell inward love.

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

The layers were but gorgeous.

And there's exactly something magical nearly how delicious the creamy transcend layer of dressing is, together with how beautifully it combines amongst together with flavors the vegetable layers i time yous dig into it amongst a serving spoon.

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

Now, this version isn't the exact version my friend was hence form to spoil me with.  No, this version is a flake spicier ... getting a corking zing inward the dressing from a flake of Frank's cayenne pepper sauce ... together with includes a layer of bluish cheese crumbles.

And my oh my, is it e'er good!

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

Trust me, yous together with your gustation buds volition live glad yous 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 blood-red 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 blood-red 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

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

Enjoy!

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