Cheeseburger Salad

This cheeseburger salad is a succulent trencher of all your favorite burger ingredients, just without the bun. This healthier low-carb version of a juicy cheeseburger is loaded with seasoned beef, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and pickles and then tossed in a succulent dressing.

I love salads loaded with fresh ingredients that are both healthy and bursting with flavors. This popular salad is unchangingly a crowd-pleaser! But I like to serve my wedge salad considering it’s so easy and it looks as good as it tastes! Another salad that everyone goes crazy over is this antipasto salad! It’s unchangingly a favorite.

Top view of the cheeseburger salad in a large tan bowl. The salad is tossed with a thousand island dressing with a small trencher of the dressing on the side.

What is Cheeseburger Salad?

Have you overly heard of a “burger in a bowl” or “big mac salad”? That’s what a cheeseburger salad is! It takes all of the tasty things that you love well-nigh a cheeseburger and instead of putting it on a bun, you toss it into a salad! It’s a unconfined low-carb option but is hearty and filling all at the same time.

I love making this cheeseburger salad considering it acts as the main dish. I can whip it up and not plane need any other side dishes considering everything is once on the plate! Plus, that homemade thousand island dressing really takes this cheeseburger salad over the edge. But don’t you worry, if you’re still missing the bun, you are increasingly than welcome to make a real cheeseburger. Try my favorite smash burger, this easy air fryer burger, or alimony it archetype with this grilled burger. All of them are succulent choices!

What Goes In Cheeseburger Salad?

This salad is so simple and easy that it comes together plane quicker than a real cheeseburger. Trust me when I say that this is going to wilt a new favorite! Check out the recipe vellum at the marrow of the post for word-for-word measurements.

Ground Beef: Instead of a patty, You will melt your ground whinge up in a skillet.
Worcestershire Sauce: This adds the weightier savor to your ground beef.
Garlic Powder: I like to season this whinge with garlic powder.
Salt and Pepper: Salt and pepper are unchangingly a must and enhance all of the other flavors!
Iceberg Lettuce: I typically use iceberg lettuce but finger self-ruling to use any kind of lettuce that you have on hand.
Roma Tomatoes: Roma or any kind of diced tomatoes will work in this salad.
Pickles: Dill hamburger pickles are weightier for that archetype hamburger flavor.
Red Onion: Sliced, diced, or plane sauteed onions taste delicious!
Cheddar Cheese: Shredded cheddar cheese is a MUST to get that cheeseburger flavor! It will plane get melty if your meat is warm.
Thousand Island Dressing: Use as little or as much of this succulent homemade dressing as you would like! Another succulent option is this In-N-Out Spread.

How to Make Cheeseburger Salad

This cheeseburger salad can be made on those rented nights when you need a fast meal! It’s easy to chop everything up and make it superiority of time. Then, all you have left to do is melt the meat and toss everything together!

Cook: In a medium skillet over medium-high heat add the ground beef. Melt and crumble for well-nigh 5-7 minutes or until no longer pink.
Season: Add the Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Stir together to season the meat well. Remove from heat.
Assemble: In a large trencher combine the lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, red onion, cheddar cheese, and ground beef. Add the desired value of thousand island dressing and toss until combined. Serve and enjoy right away!

A top view of the salad ingredients separately sectioned in a large bowl.

Variations

I love this cheeseburger salad considering you can add or switch out ingredients to make it your own. It’s fun to be creative and make the salad taste exactly how you want it to!

Add or Swap the Protein: Crumbled salary would be a succulent wing to this salad! You can moreover swap out the ground whinge for ground turkey or ground chicken. You can plane leave out the meat and make it vegetarian.
Try Different Dressings: Instead of using thousand island dressing, ranch or blue cheese dressing would be succulent on this salad! You can moreover just drizzle the salad with mustard if you want a healthier option.
Additional Salad Ingredients: If you like it spicy like me, pickled jalapenos on top of this salad would requite this salad a nice kick. I moreover like to add some french fries on the side. It might sound funny but it really tastes like a cheeseburger with a side of fries mixed in.

A top view of salad ingredients in a large trencher surpassing they are tossed together. The thousand island dressing is drizzled over the cooked meat.

How to Store Leftovers

The trick to storing leftovers of this cheeseburger salad is to store the ingredients separately. Alimony the all in the refrigerator in their own containers and then hoke them surpassing you eat!

Storing and Reheating Ground Beef: Melt your ground whinge and let it cool. Then, put it into an snapped container and store it in your fridge. It will last for well-nigh 4 days! Reheat the ground whinge in the microwave, or in a pan on the stovetop.
Storing the Salad and Toppings: Prep and slice all of the toppings that go into the salad. Store them in separate snapped containers in your fridge until you are ready to put your salad together.
Assemble: Once the meat is reheated, you can hoke the salad by pursuit the instructions on the recipe card.