Outback Steakhouse Wedge Salad
This wedge salad is one of my favorite menu items at Outback Steakhouse. If you're okay with dairy, top this easy-to-prep salad off with blue cheese crumbles.
Because Outback Steakhouse makes the effort to accommodate diners on special diets, we give them our business. Their food and service is consistent. Like Starbucks, you know what you're going to get. When our boys dine with us (they are 3 and 4), we can get away with splitting an Outback Special GF—a 6-ounce steak accompanied by a naked sweet potato and unseasoned green beans. Ask mom what her favorite menu item is and she'd have to say the Wedge Salad. It's a simple little salad of iceberg lettuce topped with a blue cheese dressing, diced tomatoes, bacon bits, red onion and a drizzle of a sweet balsamic vinegar glaze. The menu suggests that gluten-free and dairy-free diners avoid the blue cheese dressing (both of which I can eat but my son cannot). How can a salad I adore not be enjoyed by everyone!? Using a tasty, dairy-free ranch dressing recipe from my friend Heidi at Adventures of a Gluten-Free Mom and a simple-to-make balsalmic glaze, you, too can have Outback at home—or close to it!
Outback Steakhouse Wedge Salad
Serves: 4
Prep Time: 10-15 minutes
Cook Time: 20-30
Common Allergens: Soy (trace amount in Veganaise)
Instructions:
In a small saucepan combine, bring to gentle simmer and reduce to a thick syrup:
1/2 cup BALSALMIC VINEGAR
1/8 cup raw HONEY
1/4 teaspoon SEA SALT
Brown, crumble and set aside:
6-8 strips BACON (choose organic or uncured Applegate Farms Sunday Bacon or Turkey Bacon) (optional)
Prepare Heidi's Ranch Dressing (dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan).
Prepare produce and set aside:
1 TOMATO diced
1/4 RED ONION thinly sliced
1 head ICEBERG LETTUCE quartered
Assembly:
On one large plate or on four individual serving dishes, arrange and top lettuce wedges evenly with and in this order, a spoonful (or two) of ranch dressing, tomato, red onion, bacon and a drizzle of the balsamic glaze. If you tolerate dairy, a spoonful of blue cheese crumbles tops this salad off perfectly!
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Reader Comments (7)
Total yum, Lexie! I need to treat myself to this at home some time. ;-) Some restaurants do a wedge for a Caesar salad and I love that, too. :-)
xo,
Shirley
Wow! That looks great! Wedge salad was one of those things that I thought was in my past; however, this is awesome looking! I can't wait to get the ingredients and make this!
I didn't realize that Outback was a safe place to eat out at!? I am very excited to hear this :) Now we have another place to add to the very short list!
ohhh my! this looks ridiculously yummy! A salad never looked so delicious!!!!!!
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Hi Ruthie, thanks for the thumbs up :)
-Lexie
I made this tonight! It was delicious and we devoured it :) I messed up a bit on the glaze though...I simmered it too long and it was SO THICK! I could barely pour it over the lettuce. Great recipe!
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Hi Kelly!! Thanks for the feedback and thumbs up. I LUUUUV this salad, too. Really appreciate your taking the time to share. Oh and you can always thin the glaze with a bit of water if it gets too thick. Should probably note in the recipe that the glaze requires close watching toward the end so that it doesn't burn. :)
-Lexie
Thanks for sharing the recipe, this is my husband's all-time favorite salad.
Ella, you are very welcome. I tell ya, I could go to Outback and be happy with just this salad and nothing else : ) I love it that much, too. xoLexie
Can't seem to find this Sara's Ranch Dressing recipe???