classic cobb salad
When I am considering recipes I might share with you all, there are a lot of foods that I arbitrarily rule out. Sandwiches? Nope! With , who needs a recipe for slapping things between two pieces of bread? Fruit salad? Oof! No! Again, unless you’re doing something - to it, I’m pretty sure people can find their own path to chopped fruit in a bowl. So when I got to thinking about making an old-school Cobb salad a couple months ago, I quickly rejected it because given the Cobb salad’s ubiquity on lunch menus everywhere, who doesn’t know how to make it?
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
What these numbers assume — 19 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Avocado | 1 medium (150g) | 240 |
| Chicken | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Blue Cheese | 1 oz (28g) | 100 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Bacon | 1 slice cooked (8g) | 43 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Soy Sauce | 1 tbsp (15ml) | 9 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Iceberg Lettuce | 1 cup shredded (36g) | 5 |
| Romaine Lettuce | 1 cup shredded (36g) | 5 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Watercress | 1 cup (34g) | 4 |
| Vinegar | 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled | 3 |
| Mustard | 1 tsp (5g) yellow | 3 |
| Chive | 1 tbsp (3g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- (Heads up: I found I only needed half of this)
- 3/4 cup canola oil
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1/2 head iceberg lettuce, cored and shredded
- 1/2 head romaine lettuce, chopped
- 1/2 bunch watercress, some of the stems trimmed, chopped
- 2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled (we used a Stilton)
- 6 strips cooked bacon, roughly chopped
- 3 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 medium tomatoes, peeled*, seeded, and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast, cooked and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons chives, minced