Cobb Salad

This naturally low carb Cobb Salad was the Bee’s Knee’s at the Brown Derby in the Golden Age of Hollywood. And, it’s just as delicious today.

This dish is best made when you have some leftover chicken – it eliminates that whole step.

It’s the perfect, healthy meal and you can prep the ingredients days ahead.

🥘Ingredients:

• 2 eggs Hard Boiled

I always keep a few hard-boiled eggs on hand because they are such a filling, low carb, low calorie snack. I have discovered the easiest way ever to make them too!

I can’t remember where I learned it but it’s the 5,5,5 method and it makes the eggs so easy to peel!

Put whatever amount you want in your instant-pot, or Ninja Foodi and choose pressure cook on HI for 5 minutes.

Once the pressure cooker has stopped, wait five minutes – release the pressure and place the eggs in an ice water bath for five minutes.

The shells will practically fall off. I know that this is a BIG claim and I would be skeptical too. But, I’ve replicated this hard boiled egg marvel many, many times.

• 3 oz. bacon

Cooked crispy and chopped. Sub in walnuts if you want to keep this meal vegetarian.

• ½ lb Chicken Baked and chopped into bite sized pieces

Skip the Chicken if you are keeping this meal vegetarian.

Leftover rotisserie chicken is perfect for this salad.

• 2 oz. Roquefort cheese crumbled

You can substitute any cheese that you like!

• 1 avocado sliced
• 1 tomato sliced
• 5 oz. Romaine lettuce chopped

You can always use whatever type of lettuce that you have handy. I prefer iceberg lettuce to Romaine.

• 1 tbsp fresh chives * optional minced

You can use green onion if chives aren’t available.

• salt and ground black pepper to taste

👩🏿‍🍳 How to make the Cobb Salad:

• Arrange chopped ingredients on top of the lettuce and serve. Drizzle with low carb dressing of choice.
  

📋Tips and Faq’s:

• Can I make this salad ahead of time?

Yes! Just chop all of the ingredients and store them separately.  I wouldn’t slice an avocado until the day that I use it though.

If you will only be using 1/2 of the avocado, slice in half, leaving the seed intact on one side and cover tightly with foil.

This will keep your avo from browning for a couple of days.

• Can I triple this recipe?

Absolutely, this recipe is a kind of guide to keeping the carbs low. You can exchange ingredients and make the salad as large as you’d like.

• What kind of dressing should I use?

Use whatever LOW CARB dressing  you like. Most store bought dressing contains a lot of sugar so just make sure to check labels if you are buying the dressing.

Bleu Cheese doesn’t normally contain a lot of sugar, but make sure to check anyway.

If you want to make your own, check out this fantastic low carb, chive & bleu cheese dressing recipe by Peace Love and Low Carb.

And, we have a really easy Low Carb Ranch Recipe right here.

That’s It!

It almost couldn’t get any easier.

In the recipe card, I list the time to make this recipe as 10 minutes.

Obviously, if you are going to cook the chicken specifically for this recipe, it’ll take longer.

But, if you have a Ninja Foodi…You can pressure cook it in minutes, so even this isn’t a barrier if you get a taste for Cobb Salad.

I hope you love this recipe and please leave a comment below if you have any questions.

Toodle Loo Friend!

Brandy

The nutritional information for the Cobb Salad is provided as a courtesy. We are pretty careful about our figures but if you ever feel like anything is off please feel free to do your own calculations.