Cobb Salad Recipe: a salad that's filling enough to be served as a main dish. It’s also a great way to use up leftover ham and hard boiled eggs. #SpringEats (2024)

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What makes a Cobb salad unhealthy? ›

Many restaurants load their salads with cheese, fried onions, bacon, or croutons. Then they douse them in dressing. Even a simple Cobb salad can clock in at nearly 1,000 calories and 85 grams of fat.

A cobb salad is typically made with chopped green, tomatoes, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, blue cheese and a vinaigrette dressing. A chef salad is a more generic salad made with more generic salad ingredients such as cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, then meats such as ham, bacon and cheddar cheese.

The Cobb salad is an American garden salad typically made with chopped salad greens (authentically romaine lettuce), tomato, bacon, chicken breast, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, chives, blue cheese (often Roquefort; some versions use other cheeses such as cheddar or Monterey Jack, or no cheese at all) and red wine ...

In 1937, Bob Cobb owned the Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood, California. One day he threw together a salad for lunch and shared it with his friend, Sid Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Restaurant. Sid liked the salad so much he named it the Cobb Salad and The Brown Derby put it on the menu as a standard item.

Cobb salad: This salad sometimes contains grilled instead of fried chicken, putting you on the proper path, right? Wrong. Let's talk blue cheese, bacon, whole eggs, avocado and creamy dressing. It all adds up to hundreds of calories and a high amount of saturated fat.

The invention of the Cobb Salad is generally attributed to Robert Howard Cobb who co-owned The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles. The year was 1937. The story goes that Cobb created the first Cobb Salad at the end of a long day after realizing he hadn't eaten for awhile.

Chick-fil-A® Nuggets, freshly breaded and pressure-cooked, sliced and served on a fresh bed of mixed greens, topped with roasted corn kernels, a blend of shredded Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheeses, crumbled bacon, sliced hard-boiled egg and grape tomatoes. Prepared fresh daily.

Jennifer Aniston's Salad refers to the one she ate while at the set of FRIENDS. She says that it's a cobb salad made at the commissary that they “basically butchered.” She added more ingredients to make it tastier, basically. It's actually a salad with lots of ingredients and the flavour is incredible.

Oil and vinegar.

In general, dressings with fewer ingredients tend to be healthier. And it doesn't get any simpler than oil and vinegar. “This is a great option, because it won't have any added sugar or salt,” says Allers.

What is an Aussie Cobb salad? ›

Fresh mixed greens, chopped hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, bacon, Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheese and croutons. Served with your choice of dressing.

Red wine vinaigrette is the traditional Cobb salad dressing; but you could also use any other light vinaigrette or opt for a creamier alternative like ranch or Blue cheese.

Spinach Salad

It is a popular salad choice in the United States due to its health benefits and versatility. The salad typically includes a variety of additional ingredients for added taste and texture.

Choosing the Ingredients

"The most important thing for me in a salad is crisp, fresh greens," says Chef Joseph Buenconsejo, with whom I co-own Rooted Seeds Catering in Danbury, Connecticut. "They add texture and are the body of the salad." When shopping for salad ingredients, look for the freshest produce you can find.

Prepared salad dressings can be high in fat and sodium and are often a hidden source of extra sugar. Large amounts of prepared salad dressing or toppings such as cheese, dried fruits, and croutons can turn a healthy salad into a very high-calorie meal.

While it may sound healthy since it's a salad, Wheeler says that this meal can get up to over 850 calories (depending on which protein you choose), which can be up to 45% of someone's daily calorie allotment. For example, the Cobb salad with nuggets or Chick-fil-A filet is 830 calories.

Cheese, croutons, salad dressing and chips or anything crispy or fried added to the salad can all add hundreds of calories to a salad. I suggest choosing two and leaving out the others so either get cheese and croutons, but no dressing, or get dressing and cheese but no croutons/ chips.