Cobb Salad Recipe

This gorgeous Cobb salad combines hearty proteins with fresh greens, tomatoes, and avocados. It’s a perfect summer meal you can whip up in under 30 minutes.

This salad makes a perfect summer salad – it’s wholesome, delicious, and filling! It is also easy to make and assemble and takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. It has become one of my favorite make-ahead lunches.

How To Make Cobb Salad

You might be wondering what is a Cobb salad and who invented it? It was created by Robert Cobb, the restaurant owner of Brown Derby in LA, who whipped it one night with leftovers. This delicious Californian salad has become one of the most popular salads on the menus of most American restaurants, and it’s now even a world-famous American dish.

Typically, for this salad, use chopped salad greens, tomato, avocado, crisp bacon, boiled, grilled, or roasted chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, Roquefort cheese, and red-wine vinaigrette. Since Cobb salad has been around for so long, there are a lot of different versions. Some recipe variations use different dressings.

Best Dressing

The classic Cobb salad dressing is usually made with red wine vinegar but you can substitute it with white wine vinegar as I did in this recipe. I also added some honey as a sweetener. It’s delicious and light. There are a lot of variations of the dressing. But the main ingredients are oil, vinegar, mustard, sugar, salt, and pepper.

Can You Make This Salad Ahead

Yes, you can make this Cobb salad a day or two ahead. Don’t slice and add the avocado until you are ready to serve the salad. Also, keep the salad dressing in a jar in the fridge and add it just before serving.

Healthy Cobb Salad – Perfect for Meal Prep

This classic Cobb salad is naturally gluten-free, low carb, keto-friendly and I made it Paleo by omitting the cheese. It’s loaded up with delicious veggies, crunchy bacon, grilled chicken, and sweet and tangy dressing. I love making this salad in the summer because it’s fresh and loaded with tasty ingredients that leave you satisfied.

This healthy salad is also great for meal prep because you can prep everything a couple of days ahead of time and eat it for lunch during the week. I like to make a batch of cooked chicken, oven-baked bacon, and a dozen hard-boiled eggs on Sundays to meal prep for the week. This makes it very easy to eat healthy even if you don’t have a lot of time to cook during the workweek. If you are a fan of meal prepping, you should add this salad to your meal prep routine.

More Healthy Salad Recipes You Will Love

• Salmon Quinoa and Kale Salad
• Mediterranean Tuna Salad
• Greek Quinoa Salad with Chicken
• Chef Salad
• Caesar Salad

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