Classic Cobb Salad Recipe

Name: Classic Cobb Salad
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 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; 1/3 cup olive oil

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 20 mins

Total: 35 mins

Servings: 4 servings

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Nutrition Facts (per serving)
913	Calories
66g	Fat
31g	Carbs
53g	Protein

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 4
Amount per serving
Calories	913
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 66g	85%
Saturated Fat 17g	86%
Cholesterol 286mg	95%
Sodium 597mg	26%
Total Carbohydrate 31g	11%
Dietary Fiber 13g	45%
Protein 53g
Calcium 328mg	25%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

Learn to make a traditional American cobb salad that's chock-full of crispy bacon, seasoned chicken, 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 the components being tossed together.

Cobb salad is a full meal by itself. With four different proteins—bacon, eggs, chicken, and blue cheese—it is very nourishing and you don’t need to serve anything with it.

Whether you use grilled or roasted chicken, or any other leftovers from cooked chicken breast is up to your personal taste. If you don’t want to roast chicken yourself, a great shortcut is to use a rotisserie chicken.

For the dressing, this recipe uses red wine vinegar and Dijon mustard, which is the classic version. Some recipes use buttermilk in the dressing to add creaminess. The avocados should be very ripe because, in combination with the blue cheese, they give the salad its creamy consistency.

Cobb salad is named after Robert Howard Cobb, the owner of the Hollywood Brown Derby, a chain restaurant in Los Angeles. Originally it was a way for the restaurant to use up leftovers, but it soon became the restaurant’s most famous dish.

Cobb salad can be prepared ahead of time: fry the bacon, wash and chop the veggies, dice the chicken, and whip up the dressing. Keep all the ingredients in airtight containers in the fridge to prevent them from drying out (if you are short on containers, you can store two ingredients in the same container, just keep them separate). Assemble or layer the salad just before serving and make sure that you use a very large dinner plate because it needs to fit a lot.