← Nouns Cooking · American

Ingredients

• 6 slices Bacon, chopped
• 1 head of iceberg lettuce, well chilled, cut into 4 wedges, core trimmed
• 250 g Cherry tomatoes, halved
• 2 tbsp Chives, snipped
• 90 g Blue cheese, crumbled, plus extra to scatter
• 6 tbsp Mayonnaise
• 4 tbsp Sour cream
• 120 ml Buttermilk
• 1 tbsp Cider vinegar
• 1 clove Garlic, finely grated
• ¼ tsp Salt
• ½ tsp Black pepper

Method

1. Cook the bacon in a frying pan over medium heat for 6–8 min, until crisp. Drain on kitchen paper.
2. Whisk the mayonnaise, sour cream, buttermilk, vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper until smooth, then fold in the blue cheese, leaving some chunks.
3. Set a cold lettuce wedge on each plate and spoon the dressing generously over the top, letting it run into the layers.
4. Scatter with the tomatoes, bacon, chives, extra blue cheese and a grind of pepper. Serve straight away.

Tips

• The dressing improves after an hour in the fridge and keeps for 5 days.
• Skip the bacon for a vegetarian version, and check the blue cheese is made with vegetarian rennet.

Sources

Written in our own words after cross-checking these recipes:

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