This Bacon Pea Salad Recipe is low calorie, and so easy to make!
We were able to cut 100’s of calories without changing the flavor or serving size of traditional pea salad with bacon.
This easy recipe for pea salad makes a great meal prep side dish, or potluck recipe.
It travels well, and is served cold. Making this pea bacon salad recipe great for all your summer get togethers.
This Bacon Pea Salad Recipe is low calorie, and so easy to make!
Bacon Pea Salad Recipe
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make a healthy recipe for pea salad.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label, extra low calorie summer salads and more in the sections below.
To make this green pea salad easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Pea Bacon Salad Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Pea Salad with Bacon
- Bacon Pea Salad Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Creamy Pea Salad
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this pea salad bacon recipe to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for old fashioned pea salad made healthy…
Pea Bacon Salad Ingredients
We took out the mayonnaise and the sour cream, and replaced it with metabolism boosting Greek Yogurt!
This gives you the creaminess you want in pea salad recipes, without all the calories and unhealthy fats.
Special Note: Yes we do use real bacon… but just 3 slices per batch, and that’s only 1/2 a slice per serving. We have found that if you use the real thing it helps others accept healthier recipes. Plus a little of the real thing is better than a lot of the substitute when it comes to bacon.
Shopping List for Cold Pea Salad:
Pea Salad Dressing:
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie English pea salad you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this healthy pea salad can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make a green pea salad recipe quickly and easily…
How to Make Pea Salad with Bacon
To make this recipe extra easy we don’t defrost the peas for salad. We let them chill the salad faster, and skip the extra work of defrosting them!
You can cook the bacon to your desired doneness, but we recommend crunchy bacon as it will sit in the salad and might get too soggy after a while if you don’t cook it crunchy.
How to Make Pea Salad Healthy:
- In a small bowl, combine all dressing ingredients and whisk to combine. Add more water, a tablespoon at a time until you have a consistency that can be drizzled off your spoon.
- To a large bowl, combine the peas, onion, cheese, and pea salad dressing.
- Gently stir the pea salad until the dressing is evenly distributed.
- Top with crumbled bacon.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours before serving.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best pea salad with bacon…
Bacon Pea Salad Recipe
Yes, that is real bacon! Let me explain…
Traditional pea salad recipes call for 6-10 slices of bacon, we only recommend 3 slices. We have found that the real stuff adds so much flavor, that you can cut down the quantity (thus saving lots of calories) and still get the same great taste.
With that said, you can absolutely use turkey bacon in its place. We leave the decision to you.
Bacon Pea Salad Recipe (LOW CALORIE)
Ingredients
- 3 slices bacon cooked and crumbled
- 5 cups frozen peas
- 1/4 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/3 cup diced red onion
Pea Salad Dressing:
- 1 cup 0% Greek Yogurt
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine all dressing ingredients and whisk to combine. Add more water a tablespoon at a time until you have a consistency that can be drizzled off your spoon.
- To a large bowl, combine the peas, onion, cheese, and pea salad dressing.
- Gently stir the pea salad until the dressing is evenly distributed.
- Top with crumbled bacon.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours before serving.
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Creamy Pea Salad
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