Corn Chip Lettuce Salad - Easy Salad Recipe

Corn Chip Lettuce Salad is a classic tossed lettuce salad with a few unique ingredients and a special homemade salad dressing! It’s a favorite in the Mennonite culture and can often be found at gatherings and potlucks.

Corn Chip Salad (A Lettuce Salad Recipe with Corn Chips!)

Yay, I’m excited to share this one! This salad is always a big hit; if I take a big dish of corn chip salad to a potluck (or carry-in dinner or covered dish dinner if you're a Mennonite), there’s a good chance the dish will get scraped clean!

Warm weather is surely on the way (even though we can't tell it at times!), and I'm thinking summer cookouts, bbq chicken, campfires, all the things. Easy lettuce salad recipes (like corn chip salad:) are the perfect side dish to go with a variety of grilled meats!

Did you ever have a lettuce salad with corn chips added? MMM, it's one of our favorites:) So, if you're looking for lettuce salad recipes with mayonnaise, here's a fun one for you!

What is Corn Chip Lettuce Salad?

Corn Chip Lettuce salad contains lettuce (of course!), bacon, hard-boiled eggs, cheese and Fritos twists, then it gets tossed in a signature homemade salad dressing. And one of my most favorite things about this salad would have to be the crunchy Fritos honey BBQ twists!

I've also seen it called "Amish Corn Chip Salad", if that sounds more familiar.

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Supplies we used

• Cutting board and kitchen knife - to chop the lettuce and other ingredients
  
• Large bowl - a place to mix everything together.
  
• A spatula or two
  
• Measuring cups and spoons
  
• Blender - is great to have for blending the salad dressing. You can whisk it together by hand in a small bowl too, but it might have a more gritty texture then, from the sugar.
  
• Egg cooker - love, love, love my egg cooker. It makes hard-boiling eggs super easy!
  
• Microwave bacon tray - quickly fry the bacon in the microwave, without making a greasy mess.
  
• Grater - I always like to shred my own cheese rather than buying pre-shredded from the store.

Ingredients 

Lettuce - iceberg, spring mix, romaine lettuce, or a mixture of lettuce is great. Today I used only iceberg lettuce and I believe that’s traditionally how it’s made!

Bacon - fried and crumbled bacon or bacon bits from the store

Hard-boiled eggs

Shredded cheese - cheddar cheese is probably my fave but you can use any shredded cheese.

Corn chips - or more specifically Fritos Honey BBQ twists. It’s also totally fine to use plain Fritos corn chips! You can crush the crunchy corn chips a little bit before mixing, or let them whole.

For the corn chip salad dressing:

• Mayonnaise - preferably real mayonnaise. Miracle Whip adds a different flavor that we don’t care for!
• Vinegar - white distilled vinegar. Here again, not saying you can’t use apple cider vinegar or a different kind, but it will change the flavor!
• Milk
• Sugar - I'm using cane sugar today. You can also use white sugar, brown sugar or a combination of the two!

Find the full recipe on the handy little printable recipe card below!

How to make Corn Chip Lettuce Salad

1. Prep the ingredients.

Hard-boil the eggs, then dice them into little chunks. If you're needing directions on how to do this, click here How to Hard Boil Eggs

Fry the bacon, and crumble it into bits.

Chop the lettuce into bite-size pieces.

Shred the cheese.

Then toss everything into a large mixing bowl.

2. Make the dressing. Dump all the dressing ingredients into a blender and blend until nice and smooth.

3. Add the dressing and the corn chips to the mixing bowl with the rest of the ingredients and toss thoroughly. Serve immediately.

Enjoy!💚

How do I store Corn Chip Lettuce Salad?

This salad gets soggy quickly! I don't recommend keeping the leftover salad, unless you plan to eat it fairly soon.

Can I make Corn Chip Salad ahead of time?

Yes! Just store everything in separate containers and mix it all together just before serving.

Tips, Tricks + Notes

Corn Chip Salad is best an hour or two after everything is mixed together! 

When I make this for my little family, I like to store the corn chips, cheese, and salad dressing separately! (The lettuce, bacon and hard-boiled eggs can be stored together in a dish.) Then, just mix up enough for one meal, or let everyone assemble their own little salad.

There are lots of options when it comes to salad toppings! Add any more toppings you wish like bell peppers, black olives, tomatoes, etc.

More easy salad recipes:

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad

Garden Lettuce Salad with Sweet Cream Dressing

Macaroni Salad

And if you want more side dish ideas, check out this list of 12 Comfort Food Side Dish Recipes!

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