Arugula Salad with Bacon and Butternut Squash Recipe

Directions

Ingredients :

1 slice bacon, cut into small pieces

2 mushrooms, sliced (or more to taste)

¼ cup cooked butternut squash cubes

2 cups arugula

1 ounce crumbled goat cheese

1 teaspoon pine nuts

¼ teaspoon cracked black pepper, or to taste

Methods :

Step 1

Cook bacon in a skillet over medium-high heat until some of the fat renders into the pan, 2 to 3 minutes. Add mushrooms; cook and stir together until the mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes. Stir squash cubes into the bacon mixture; continue cooking until the squash is hot and the bacon crisp, 3 to 5 minutes more.

Step 2

Put arugula in a bowl; top with bacon, mushroom, and squash mixture. Sprinkle goat cheese over the salad and top with pine nuts. Sprinkle with cracked black pepper.