Popeye’s Got to Have It Spinach Salad

We’re stirring up “Popeye’s Got To Have It Spinach Salad” in the All Things Southern kitchen today.   It’s chock-full of nutrition and running over with flavor. Let me show you~

“Popeye’s Got To Have It Spinach Salad”

Salad:

2 six-ounce bags packaged spinach, washed
1 bunch green onions, diced
5 slices bacon, fried, drained, and crumbled
½ cup slivered almonds, toasted
1(8 ounce) can sliced water chestnuts
Dressing:
1/3 cup olive oil
¼ cup sugar
3 tablespoons cider vinegar
Salt and Pepper to taste
Garnish:
3 to 4 hard-boiled eggs

I’ve already diced up the green onions and rinsed two bags of packaged spinach. (This makes a big salad, so if your bunch isn’t as big or as hungry as mine, you might want to cut back on the greens a little.)

I’ve also fried, drained and crumbled five slices of bacon. We’re gonna add the chopped green onions and the bacon bits to our freshly washed spinach along with an eight ounce can of sliced water chestnuts and a half cup of slivered almonds that I’ve lightly toasted.

Time for the dressing: We’ll take 1/3 cup of olive oil, and whisk it with three tablespoons of cider vinegar. Once we force those two to get along, we’ll add a fourth cup of sugar to our sweet vinaigrette with a dash of salt and pepper. Then we’ll drizzle it over the salad right before we’re ready to serve it. (Adjust the amount to your salad. Don’t drench it!)

All that’s left is to slice our hard-boiled eggs and use ‘em to garnish our salad. Perfection, or as we like to say it here at ATS— Bone Appetite! Enjoy PopEye’s Got to Have It Spinach Salad, folks. It’s good eating, from the All Things Southern kitchen to yours!