I Spy Salad

Name: I Spy Salad
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 6 servings.
Ingredients: 2-1/2 cups torn iceberg lettuce; 2-1/2 cups torn romaine; 3 green onions, sliced; 1 cup chopped sweet red pepper; 1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms; 2 radishes, thinly sliced; 4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled; 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese; 2 medium tomatoes, halved and sliced; 1 small cucumber, thinly sliced; 2 hard-boiled large egg, halved lengthwise; 1 ripe olives, halved; Salad dressing of your choice

We dug into this salad, named after a memory game we played with the kids. This colorful layered salad is chock-full of flavorful ingredients and garnished with cute hard-cooked egg-and-olive eyes on the top. Perky eyebrows are made with the sliced white portion of the eggs.—Leslie Dumm, Clevemand Heights, Ohio

Ingredients

2-1/2 cups torn iceberg lettuce
2-1/2 cups torn romaine
3 green onions, sliced
1 cup chopped sweet red pepper
1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
2 radishes, thinly sliced
4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 medium tomatoes, halved and sliced
1 small cucumber, thinly sliced
2 hard-boiled large egg, halved lengthwise
1 ripe olives, halved
Salad dressing of your choice

Directions

In a 2-qt. salad bowl, layer the first nine ingredients in the order given. Arrange tomatoes and cucumber around the edge. Place two egg halves in the middle of salad for eyes; top with olive halves for pupils.
Remove yolk from the remaining egg halves. For eyelashes, cut six thin slices from egg white; place above eyes (refrigerate leftover egg for another use). Serve the salad with dressing of your choice.

Nutrition Facts

1 cup: 98 calories, 6g fat (2g saturated fat), 79mg cholesterol, 134mg sodium, 7g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein.

Originally published as I Spy Salad in Taste of Home February/March 2005

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katlaydee3

Apr 2, 2018

I thought this made for a cute presentation, but no one noticed the “eyes” until I pointed them out. I also need to remember to use a large, shallow platter or bowl for layered salads or it is very difficult to get a decent amount of lettuce.