This Low Carb Cheeseburger Salad is chock full of ground beef, cheese, fresh veggies and homemade dressing! Like a Big Mac without the bun!
LOW CARB CHEESEBURGER SALAD
If you love a filling salad, this one is for you. It’s a whole of seasoned ground beef and lettuce, cheese and the most delicious dressing. Everyone gave this recipe a 5 out of 5 stars. It is the perfect dinner salad. If you’ve ever tried DORITOS TACO SALAD, then you’ll know exactly the kind of salad this is.
VIDEO INCLUDED BELOW:
TIPS FOR MAKING THIS BIG MAC-STYLE SALAD:
- You can certainly use ground turkey or chicken in this recipe.
- Feel free to add any vegetables you enjoy to this salad. You really can’t go wrong with this one. It is easily customizable!
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
for the dressing:
mayonnaise
diced dill pickles
mustard
white vinegar
smoked paprika
sugar (or Stevia)
for the salad:
ground beef
salt & pepper
romaine lettuce
diced tomatoes
shredded cheddar cheese
diced dill pickles
HOW TO MAKE LOW CARB CHEESEBURGER SALAD AND DRESSING:
In a blender or a food processor, blend all the dressing ingredients until smooth. If the dressing is too thick for your tastes, just thin it out by adding a little milk. Pop the dressing into a lidded container (like a mason jar) and stick it into the fridge until you’re ready to serve.
Brown and crumble ground beef in a skillet over medium-high heat. Season beef with salt and pepper. Drain excess grease.
Combine all the remaining salad ingredients in a large bowl. Add the ground beef. Drizzle with prepared dressing. Stir and serve!
Cook’s notes: You can serve up the salad separate from the dressing so everyone can add the amount of dressing they would like to their own salads.
Enjoy!
Originally published: January 2018
Updated & Re-published: January 2019
LOW CARB CHEESEBURGER SALAD
Ingredients
For the dressing:
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp diced dill pickles
- 2 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 tbsp sugar, or Stevia
For the salad:
- 1 lb ground beef
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 head Romaine lettuce, roughly chopped
- 1 cup diced tomatoes
- 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup diced dill pickles
Instructions
- In a blender or a food processor, blend all the dressing ingredients until smooth. If the dressing is too thick for your tastes, just thin it out by adding a little milk. Pop the dressing into a lidded container (like a mason jar) and stick it into the fridge until you're ready to serve.
- Brown and crumble ground beef in a skillet over medium-high heat. Season beed with salt and pepper. Drain excess grease.
- Combine all the remaining salad ingredients in a large bowl. Add the ground beef. Drizzle with prepared dressing. Stir and serve!
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Notes
Nutrition
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Is the nutrition info based on sugar or erithrytol?
Cindy, I plugged in the values based on sugar.
I follow a low carb diet and was so happy to see this recipe. It was delicious! I substituted ground turkey for beef but kept everything else the same. Oh! And we topped it with fried onions for a little crunch. Will definitely make again.
This was very good. Highly recommend. My daughter asked me to make this everyday.
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Been looking for some low carb recipes that can give me the tastes i’ve been missing! Thanks for this. Can’t wait to make it at home.
Top recipe! I don’t follow any diet, but made it because I liked the name, during summer we eat this cheeseburger salad at least onece a week!
Thanks so much Elsbeth! I love hearing that. I’m not on any diet either but this salad is just SO good!! 🙂
What is the serving size? I love Big Macs, but hate all the calories.