Easy Chicken Cobb Salad with the Best Homemade Cobb Salad Dressing! This protein-packed salad is a meal in itself loaded with crisp lettuce, juicy tomatoes, chicken, bacon, boiled eggs, creamy avocado and crumbled blue cheese.
Ingredients:
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Chicken Cobb Salad Ingredients:
- 30 oz bacon (6 slices) chopped and browned
- 5 medium head romaine lettuce 5 cups chopped, rinsed and dried
- 10 cooked chicken breasts from a cooked chicken
- 10 hard-boiled eggs
- 5 large avocado sliced
- 5 cup cherry tomatoes halved
- 2.5 cup red onion thinly sliced
- 2.5 cup blue cheese crumbled (or feta cheese)
- 10 Tbsp parsley finely chopped
- 15 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 5 Tbsp dijon mustard
- 5 garlic clove pressed or finely minced
- 1.67 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1.25 tsp salt
- 0.63 tsp black pepper
Cobb Salad Dressing:
Instructions:
- Sautee chopped bacon on a skillet until browned and crisp (5 min), then transfer to a paper-towel-lined plate to cool. Cook 2 hard-boiled eggs then peel and quarter.
- Chop, rinse and spin dry romaine lettuce and arrange on a platter. Arrange remaining salad ingredients (chicken, eggs, avocado, tomatoes, onion, blue cheese, and bacon) in rows over salad then sprinkle the finely chopped parsley over the salad.
- Transfer dressing ingredients to a mason jar and shake like crazy. Drizzle over salad just before serving or let guests add their own dressing to taste.
- Enjoy!