Make Your Diet Food Tasty With The Cobb Salad

Are you dieting and only eating healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, juices, oats, and salad? To help you in following your diet, here is a special salad for you. It is a famous salad in the US, and its name is “Cobb Salad“.

Cobb salad is a main-dish American garden salad. It was invented by Bob Cobb for his Brown Derby Restaurant in 1937. After that, this classic cobb salad became a famous American dish. 

It is prepared with salad greens like lettuce, roasted chicken breast, crisp bacon, tomato, onion, avocado, boiled eggs, cheese, and vinaigrette. Cobb salad is very tasty and also very healthy and nutritious.

You can have it as your lunch or dinner. Its quality is that it includes everything like vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and cheese. Therefore, it is packed with protein, healthy fat, and fibre.

So, follow this quick Cobb salad recipe.

Per bowl of cobb salad contains 711 kcal

• Carbohydrates: 12gg
• Protein: 50g
• Fat: 51g

 

 

Ingredients

• 6 slices of bacon, chopped & browned
• 1 medium head Romania lettuce
• 2 cooked chicken breast from a rotisserie chicken
• 1 large avocado, sliced
• 2 hard-boiled eggs
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1/2 cup red onion, thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup blue cheese ( or feta cheese), crumbled
• 2 tbsp parsley, finely chopped

Balsamic vinaigrette dressing

• 1 tbsp dijon mustard
• 3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 garlic clove, finely minced
• 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp black pepper

Method

Balsamic vinaigrette dressing

1. Take a mason jar add some olive oil, balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, garlic clove, peoper and salt 
2. Close the lid of the jar tightly and shake well.
3. Keep aside for further use.

Cobb Salad 

1.  Firstly, take a pan and add chopped bacon. Saute until golden brown and crisp.
2. Transfer them into a paper towel-lined plate. Let it cool.
3. Now peel the hard-boiled eggs and cut them into the quarter.
4. Then, cut, rinse, and dry the Romania lettuce. Arrange them on a salad platter.
5. After that, arrange chicken, eggs, avocado, tomatoes, onion, blue cheese, and bacon in rows over salad.
6. Then sprinkle the chopped parsley over it.
7. Now, drizzle the prepared dressing over the salad just before serving.

The traditional cobb salad is ready to serve. Enjoy your salad and be fit and healthy.

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