Name: Healthy Wedge Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1/3 cup Greek yogurt; 1/3 cup buttermilk; 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese; 2 Tablespoons chopped chives; 3 teaspoons white wine vinegar; 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder; Salt and pepper (to taste); 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil; 1/2 red onion (thinly sliced); Pinch of salt; 1 Tablespoon honey (or maple syrup); 1/2 teaspoon white wine vinegar; 1 head radicchio; 1 head iceberg lettuce; 1 heart romaine; 6 strips bacon (cooked and crumbled)

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This Healthy Wedge Salad Recipe is topped with a lower-calorie tangy buttermilk-blue cheese dressing and combines iceberg lettuce with radicchio and romaine. It’s topped with crispy onions and bacon for added crunch.

The wedge salad is definitely one of my favorite salads.

Typically they consist of a wedge of iceberg lettuce with loads of bleu cheese dressing and crumbles of bacon on top. The iceberg wedge is the perfect vessel for that dressing because when it’s cut open there’s an instant formation of nooks and crannies for that dressing to seep down into. It’s crispy and refreshing, but also after a while, the wedge salad can become a bit boring. It’s also definitely not the most nutritious salad.

This version changes things a bit.

How to Make a Healthy Wedge Salad

This Healthy Wedge Salad is bit more nutritious with the addition of two new lettuces to the mix – radicchio and romaine.

If you’re not familiar with radicchio, it looks like a small head of red cabbage but it’s actually a chicory, and has just a slightly bitter, crisp taste. I love how it livens the traditional wedge salad.

I’m also lightening up the wedge salad by making a tangy buttermilk-blue cheese dressing.

Buttermilk may sound fattening but it’s actually low in fat, high in protein and calcium, and contains probiotics – those beneficial bacteria that help keep your digestive system happy and healthy. I’m combing it with Greek yogurt and a bit of blue cheese to make it decadent and creamy. A splash of vinegar gives it that great tang.

Buttermilk blue cheese dressing in mason jar.

Close up of platter of healthy wedge salad.

One thing I’m not skimping on is the bacon.

It’s my feeling that you can’t mess around too much with the classic version. If you’d like to lighten things up even further, you can leave out the bacon, halve the amount of bacon, or swap it out with turkey bacon.

To take this Healthy Wedge Salad over the top, I’m also adding some delicious, crispy sautéed red onions. Take note and be sure to spread the onions out well on piece or parchment or a plate while they are cooling, otherwise, they will all stick together and turn into one big mass.

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Wedge Salad Wine Pairing:

The bleu cheese and bitter radicchio in this salad call for a sweeter white wine like Riesling.

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