Salad Cobb with the Amazing Dressing
Best homemade Cobb Salad Dressing paired with an easy chicken cob salad! With its abundance of crisp lettuce, juicy tomatoes, chicken, bacon, boiled eggs, creamy avocado, and crumbled blue cheese, this protein-rich salad may be eaten as a meal on its own.
What’s In a Cobb Salad?
This salad is quite fulfilling. You may eat it as a main course or as a side salad because it is so high in protein.
Chicken Cobb Salad Recipe
In 1937, Bob Cobb created the first Cobb Salad for his Brown Derby Restaurant in Los Angeles. It is now a well-known American meal that resembles a chef’s salad.
How to Make Cobb Salad
Ingredients
- 6 oz bacon, (6 slices) chopped and browned
- 1 medium head romaine lettuce, 5 cups chopped, rinsed and dried
- 2 cooked chicken breasts,
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 large avocado, sliced
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 cup red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled (or feta cheese)
- 2 Tbsp parsley, finely chopped
Cobb Salad Dressing
- 3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 Tbsp dijon mustard
- 1 garlic clove, pressed or finely minced
- 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
Instructions
Step 1: Use a skillet to bake, air fry, or saute bacon. Hard-boil two eggs, let them cool in ice water, then peel and cut them into quarters.
Step 2: Arrange the chopped, rinsed, and dried romaine lettuce on a shallow plate.
Step 3: Sprinkle the finely chopped parsley over the salad after arranging the remaining salad ingredients (chicken, eggs, avocado, tomatoes, onion, blue cheese, and bacon) in rows.
Step 4: Pour the dressing ingredients into a mason jar and give it a vigorous shake. Just before serving, drizzle over the salad, or let guests add their own dressing according to taste.
