Cobb Salad
Cobb Salad loaded with chicken, crispy bacon, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, avocado, blue cheese, and a simple but wonderful homemade dressing that brings it all together. This classic salad is really easy to make and always a showstopper!
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Cobb Salad Ingredients
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Cobb Salad Ingredients:
- Greens: This is the base of the salad. Traditional Cobb salad uses a combination of Romaine, iceberg, and watercress. We keep it super simple and just use Romaine, but feel free to use what you like.
- Chicken: Roast chicken or grilled chicken are great. You could even buy rotisserie chicken from the store to save time.
- Bacon: Perfectly crispy bacon that’s chopped up or crumbled.
- Hard Boiled Eggs: This is how we make perfect hard boiled eggs, to ensure there’s no green ring!
- Tomatoes: Cherry or grape tomatoes are our preference, since they tend to be the sweetest.
- Onion: We love the pop of color that red onion gives to this salad. It’s slightly spicy, but has such a mild flavor when eaten raw.
- Avocado: Use beautiful, ripe avocados without any brown spots.
- Cheese: Roquefort Blue cheese is traditionally used and since we love it, we stick with it. If blue cheese is not your thing, you can sub with feta.
- Chives: Chopped fresh chives get sprinkled over the top, which adds additional flavor and also acts as a garnish.
- Salt and Pepper: Simple seasonings of salt and pepper finish off the salad.
How to Make a Cobb Salad
Cobb Salad is actually good for meal prep or a great way to use up leftover chicken and hard-cooked eggs. If you don’t have leftovers, fresh ingredients aren’t terribly time consuming to prepare, and you can do it in advance of actually serving the salad. Here’s the ideal order to prep it ahead of time:
- Dressing: Our Greek Salad Dressing is amazing on this salad and it only takes a few minutes to whip up. You can make it and store it in the fridge up to 1 week before dressing the salad.
- Cook the chicken: Roast or baked chicken breast with simple seasoning is great. Slice it or chop it right before assembling.
- Hard boil the eggs: You need 3 hard boiled eggs for our recipe. This is our way of making perfect hard boiled eggs. Once cooled, go ahead and peel them, but leave them whole until ready to assemble. Then slice them, chop them, or quarter them.
- Crisp the bacon: We cook our bacon in the oven, but you can certainly fry it in a pan, too. Cook it until crispy, drain any rendered fat, then chop it up once cooled.
- Chop the vegetables and cheese: Do this last, so the vegetables are nice and crisp and the avocado doesn’t turn brown.
If prepping in advance, keep everything stored separately, in airtight containers in the fridge so the components stay dry. And don’t slice into the avocado or dress the salad until right before serving. If serving right away, place a bed of lettuce on a one large serving platter, or individual plates. Then top with rows of all the ingredients, garnish with chives and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Drizzle dressing over salad