Grilled Chicories with Crispy Fried Eggs & Bacon Vinaigrette

This substantial salad, which includes eggs fried in olive oil and a dressing based on rendered bacon fat, is our riff on the easy-to-like theme of bacon and eggs.

We like to cook bacon slowly in olive oil to make lardons for dishes like Charred Brussels Spouts with Bacon & Dates. When we’re done, we’re left with a bacon fat–scented olive oil that’s far too delicious to toss out, so we use it to enhance this basic vinaigrette.

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