Cobb Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette

Time: Active time: 15 min Start to finish: 30 min
Gourmet | August 2008
by Andrea Albin

Ingredients

  • 1 heart of romaine, torn into bite-size pieces
  • 3 cups packed baby spinach
  • 4 bacon slices, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 6 chicken tenders (about 1/2 pound)
  • 2 tablespoons red-wine vinegar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon grainy mustard
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs, halved
  • 1 small tomato, cut into wedges
  • 1/2 avocado
  • 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese (3 ounces)

Preparation

Toss together romaine and spinach in a large bowl.

Cook bacon, stirring occasionally, in a heavy medium skillet over medium heat until crisp. Transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain.

Discard all but about 2 tablespoons bacon fat and add oil to skillet. Pat chicken dry and season with 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Increase heat to medium-high and cook chicken, turning over once, until golden brown and just cooked through, 5 to 6 minutes total. Transfer chicken to a plate.

Reduce heat to medium and add vinegars and mustard to skillet. Boil, scraping up brown bits, 30 seconds. Stir in any juices from chicken.

Toss salad greens with bacon vinaigrette. Season with salt and pepper. Top salad with chicken, eggs, tomato, sliced avocado, blue cheese, and bacon.

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The dressing has a good flavor but more is definitely needed. The components of this Cobb salad are very much like the Cobb salads I've eaten in restaurants.

dianeb80 from Louisville, OH / 06.04.15

for the 2nd review, Robert H Cobb invented the cobb, Brown Derby Restaurant, LA-1937

big77buddha from pittsburgh / 12.10.12

I absolutely love it. It is getting rave reviews whenever I make it at home or bring it somewhere. The vinaigrette is delicious!!!

caloryne from boston, ma / 10.05.08

You miss the whole point: Cobb salad is a chopped salad--egg, chicken, bacon, tomato, avocado--all are served in separate sections over chopped lettuce. The Brown Derby in Hollywood created the salad, though I don't remember the chef's name--rumor was that it was made first for a famous wit of the day, Irwin S. KCobb.

A Cook from Arizona / 08.13.08

I made this last night & will again tonight--used cooked chicken I already had on hand. Easy, tasty, delicious!

fiatslug from Portland OR / 08.12.08

Not great.

amyaustell from Durham, NC / 08.08.08

Kind of bland and too salty.

amyaustell / 08.08.08

I thought the salad was great. I omitted the chicken as it was a side for steak. I was leary of the vinaigrette at first but it complimented the salad very nicely. My only complaint was there wasn't enough sauce.

misday from Denham Springs, LA / 08.08.08

Great just the way is written. I didn't change a thing. A keeper!

alabamachef / 08.07.08

This is a good but unexceptional variation on the original Cobb. I prefer Cobb salads chopped, as in the original recipe.

gserena from Guilford, CT / 08.07.08
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