Name: California Cobb Salad
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cup Lettuce, chopped; 180 g Chicken Breast, cooked and sliced; 60 g Smoked Bacon, cooked crisp and chopped; 2 Egg, hard-boiled and quartered; 1 Avocado, sliced; 1 Tomato, diced; ¼ cup Blue Cheese, crumbled; 2 tbsp Olive Oil, for dressing; 1 tbsp Vinegar, for dressing; 1 tsp Dijon Mustard, for dressing; ½ tsp Salt, divided; ½ tsp Ground Black Pepper, freshly ground if possible

35 mintotal

Prep 20 min · Cook 15 min

Serves: 2
Difficulty: Easy
Spice: None

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Method

If needed, season and cook the chicken breast on a pan until fully cooked, then rest and slice it.
Cook the smoked bacon until crisp and chop it into small pieces.
Whisk olive oil, vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, and black pepper to make a sharp vinaigrette.
Spread the chopped lettuce in a wide bowl or platter.
Arrange the chicken, bacon, egg, avocado, tomato, and blue cheese in neat rows on top. Drizzle with dressing just before serving.

How to tell it's done

The salad should be crisp and fresh, with creamy avocado, tender chicken, crisp bacon, and crumbly cheese.

Getting it right

Tip

A Cobb salad looks best when the toppings are arranged in rows rather than mixed too early.

What to serve it with

Serve as a complete lunch or light dinner with extra dressing on the side.

Common mistakes

The salad wilts before it is served.: Dress at the table. Everything else can be arranged in advance, but oil and vinegar on lettuce is a countdown of a few minutes.
The rows collapse into a mixed bowl.: Chop the ingredients small and lay them in tight bands on a wide, shallow platter. A Cobb is a composed salad; a deep bowl makes the arrangement impossible to keep.

Substitutions

Use cooked leftover chicken to make this salad faster.
Blue cheese is classic in Cobb salad, but reduce the amount if you prefer a milder flavor.
Add the avocado close to serving time so it stays fresh-looking.
Keep the dressing separate until serving if meal-prepping the salad.

Storing and reheating

Keeps a day in the fridge undressed with the avocado left out. Cooked chicken and bacon hold three days, eggs a week in the shell. Once dressed it is finished within the hour.

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