Chicken Cobb Salad is always a summer favorite! An easy main dish or side with great recipe tips for your chicken. Plus it looks fantastic when serving. Choose from the best best Cobb Salad dressings, everyone will love this recipe!
Cobb Salad Ingredients
Cobb Salad is a tasty American salad which has the ingredients placed over the lettuce when served. It is not a tossed salad. Traditionally, Blue Cheese is crumbled alongside your ingredients, but some people find that overpowering. Here's what you'll need.
- Lettuce - a mix of Romaine lettuce and Iceberg lettuce
- Bacon - fried crispy, then chopped
- Chicken - grilled chicken or shredded rotisserie chicken
- Hard Boiled Eggs - try medium boiled eggs for a change
- Green Onions - chopped into pieces
- Tomatoes - vine ripened for best flavor
- Avocado - cubed
- Blue Cheese - I prefer to use my dressing below
- Vinaigrette - only add if not using Blue Cheese dressing
Chicken Cobb Salad
I'm always looking for time savers in my recipes. This salad is usually made with grilled chicken breast or fried chicken. It's super easy to make KFC or Chick-fil-a Cobb Salad, who doesn't love that fried goodness? However, I use a rotisserie chicken, usually from Costco. It's easy to shred the chicken and use the extras for other meals!
Cobb Salad Dressing
Traditionally Cobb Salad Dressing is served with a basic vinaigrette made with oil, red wine vinegar, mustard, garlic and Worcestershire. However, I love making Cobb Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing! Not everyone likes to crumble Blue Cheese over a Cobb Salad. Some find it too strong, but with a homemade Blue Cheese dressing, you control the flavor. Plus you can use it for other salads or as a dip!
Blue Cheese Dressing
- 1 cup Mayo
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 1 teaspoon minced Onion
- 1 teaspoon Vinegar
- squeeze of ½ a Lemon
- 4 tablespoons crumbed Blue Cheese
- Whisk all together, before mixing through the Blue Cheese
Traditional Vinaigrette
- ¼ cup Red Wine Vinegar
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
- 1 Garlic clove, minced
- dash of Worcestershire
- salt and pepper to taste
- Vigorously whisk, or shake in glass jar
I Can't Eat Blue Cheese!
Ok, I get it, not everyone loves the strong flavor of Blue Cheese. Don't let that stop you from making this recipe! Here are some Blue Cheese subsitutions.
- Feta Cheese
- Mozzarella Balls (bocconcini)
- Goat's Cheese
- Hard Cheese - Gouda, Edam, Cheddar
Cobb Salad Variations
There are many different proteins you can add to your Cobb Salad. It's easy to change it up! A salad that eats like a meal. Here are my faves;
- Grilled Salmon
- Smoked Chicken
- Ham or Shredded Pork
- Leftover Turkey
- Grilled Shrimp
Summer Salad Ideas
This Chicken Cobb Salad only pretends to be healthy, but it's still a salad so it counts! It has a great visual appeal, perfect for bringing along to a potluck or bbq. However, it's often served as meal on its own. Bon Appetit! Приятного аппетита!
Ingredients
Chicken Cobb Salad
- 1 head chopped Lettuce Mix ½ Romaine lettuce and ½ Iceberg lettuce
- 8 pieces bacon fried, then chopped
- 2 grilled chicken breasts or shredded rotisserie chicken shredded
- 3 eggs hard-boiled sliced
- 4 green onions sliced
- 2 tomatoes chopped
- 2 avocados sliced into cubes
- salt and pepper to taste
- ½ cup crumbled Blue Cheese skip if using Blue Cheese Dressing
Blue Cheese Dressing
- 1 cup Mayo
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 2 cloves Garlic minced
- 1 teaspoons minced onion
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- squeeze ½ a lemon or a teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ cup crumbled Blue Cheese
Cobb Salad Vinaigrette
- ¼ cup Red Wine Vinegar
- ⅓ cup Olive Oil
- 1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
- 1 clove Garlic minced
- ½ teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Making Hard Boiled Eggs
- In a saucepan, cover eggs with 1" of water. Bring to a boil, turn off the heat, cover with a lid and allow to sit for 12 minutes. Run under cold water to stop the cooking. Peel and set aside.
Cobb Salad Prep
- Fry the bacon until nice and crispy (about 5 minutes). Place on paper towel to drain. Chop into small pieces
- Shred a Rotisserie Chicken or Grill Chicken breasts
- Chop, wash, rinse, spin dry your lettuce. Use ½ Romaine Lettuce and Iceberg Lettuce.
Making Cobb Salad
- Arrange the lettuce mix evenly across a platter. Place remaining ingredients (bacon, chicken, eggs, green onions, tomatoes, avocados and optional blue cheese) in rows across salad.
- Generously drizzle with dressing of your choice, or let your guests choose.
Blue Cheese Dressing
- In a bowl, whisk everything together except the blue cheese. You can use an electric mixer for a smoother, whipped dressing.
- Add 2 tablespoons of crumbled blue cheese and mix throughout. Taste. This creates a very mild version of the recipe. Adjust Blue Cheese to taste.
Making Traditional Vinaigrette
- Place in a small glass jar and shake vigorously!
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J.B. Whitmore
Nice. How Russian is cobb salad?
PetersFoodAdventures
It's part of my American Classics recipes ????
J.B. Whitmore
A classic indeed.
Lynz Real Cooking
Looks very good! yumm
PetersFoodAdventures
Thanks Lynn, not as healthy as I'd like it to be, but so delicious!
Lynz Real Cooking
looks like its full of good stuff yumm
PetersFoodAdventures
can't go wrong with copious amounts of bacon, right?! 🙂
Lynz Real Cooking
yes!! :))
Lana-Once Upon a Spice
YUM!! One of my all-time favorites! Beautiful, Peter!
PetersFoodAdventures
Aw, Thanks Lana! I wasn't sure if anybody knew what this was. I still can't make it as good as my mum, but I'm happy enough with it! 🙂
youthfoodblog
Yes, it is very American:) Love the neat plating too!
samskitchen
Looks very colourful. Yum! 🙂
PetersFoodAdventures
Yes, it's a salad with visual impact for sure! 🙂 and tasty too!
White House Red Door
Beautiful presentation!
PetersFoodAdventures
Thanks! Looks almost too good to eat and to mess it all up! 🙂
gingy55
Reblogged this on jenniesfoodblog and commented:
Oh, doesn't this post make you want to eat this delectable dish everyday?
busymumacademy
I want it 🙂 NOW would be best time 🙂
PetersFoodAdventures
haha! Yup, totally agree!!
Simply Splendid Food
Beautiful presentation. You've got everything I like!
PetersFoodAdventures
Thank you! I really like the bacon! be generous with the bacon! 🙂
heenie
this looks wonderful.... complete meal in itself.
PetersFoodAdventures
Thanks! It is actually very filling! 🙂