Classic Cobb Salad Recipe

Cobb Salad
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  • 35 mins
  • Prep: 15 mins,
  • Cook: 20 mins
  • Yield: Serves 4
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By John Mitzewich

Updated 04/17/18

Learn to make a traditional Cobb Salad chock-full of crispy bacon, seasoned chicken, and mounds of blue cheese, avocado, and hard-boiled egg. This is a "composed" salad, meaning the ingredients are arranged on the salad as opposed to all being tossed together. Originally it was a way for the restaurant to simply use up leftovers, but it soon became the Brown Derby's most popular dish.

What You'll Need

  • 8 slices bacon
  • 3
  • hard-boiled eggs (peeled and chopped)
  • 1 head romaine lettuce (torn into bite-size pieces)
  • 4 cups cooked chicken (diced)
  • 2 ripe avocados (peeled, pitted, and diced)
  • 2 ripe medium tomatoes (chopped)
  • 4 ounces Roquefort cheese (crumbled)
  • 1/2 teaspoon
  • Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 clove garlic (crushed)
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

How to Make It

  1. Fry the bacon until crisp, drain on paper towels, and when cool enough to handle, crumble and set aside.
  2. Arrange a bed of lettuce on the serving plates. Arrange the eggs, bacon, chicken, avocados, tomatoes, and Roquefort cheese in straight rows on top of the lettuce, covering the surface completely.
  3. In a bowl, whisk together the mustard, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt, and pepper. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil whisking constantly to form the dressing. Drizzle the dressing evenly over the salad, and serve immediately.
    Nutritional Guidelines (per serving)
    Calories 913
    Total Fat 66 g
    Saturated Fat 17 g
    Unsaturated Fat 35 g
    Cholesterol 286 mg
    Sodium 597 mg
    Carbohydrates 31 g
    Dietary Fiber 13 g
    Protein 53 g
    (The nutrition information on our recipes is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate. Individual results may vary.)