To make the *perfect* cobb salad, you MUST use homemade dressing. And it's so easy, there's really no excuse. Just throw some red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, and olive oil into a mason jar and shake it out. There's no need to stress over the vinaigrette emulsifying—the mason jar does all the hard work.
In terms of cobb salad, you can take a lot of different routes. Our recipe is filled with crispy bacon, hard boiled eggs, chicken breast, and creamy avocado. For the chicken, you can poach it, grill it, bake it, or cook it in an Instant Pot. Or you can replace it with grilled steak or sautéed prawns. Protein-wise, there's a lot of room to play. But the blue cheese is kindaaaa nonnegotiable. 😉
For dressing we included a quick recipe for a simple vinaigrette but your options are endless! We love tossing in something creamy like a ranch or Caesar. Or you can sweeten things up with honey mustard.
If you want to make this ahead of time, which we think is a great idea, we recommend storing the lettuce, eggs, chicken, bacon and chives in one container. Then you can peel the avocado and chop it along with the tomatoes before adding to the salad and tossing with dressing. Everything will keep in the fridge like that for up to 3 days.
- Yields:
- 4 - 6
- Prep Time:
- 25 mins
- Total Time:
- 30 mins
Ingredients
- 80 ml
red wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp.
Dijon mustard
- 160 ml
extra-virgin olive oil
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
- 1
lettuce, coarsely chopped
- 4
hard-boiled eggs, peeled and quartered
- 340 g
cooked chicken, diced
- 8
slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1
avocado, thinly sliced
- 130 g
crumbled blue cheese
- 140 g
cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 tbsp.
Finely chopped chives
Directions
- Step 1In a jar, shake together vinegar, mustard, and oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Step 2On a large platter, spread out lettuce, then add rows of hard-boiled egg, chicken, bacon, avocado, blue cheese, and cherry tomatoes.
- Step 3Season with salt and pepper, drizzle with dressing, and garnish with chives.
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