Recipe
Cobb salad
The Hollywood classic from the Brown Derby: rows of pan-cooked chicken, crisp bacon, egg, avocado and blue cheese over lettuce, tied together by a sharp red wine vinaigrette.
Cobb salad takes about 50 minutes and makes 2 servings. Each serving has 870 kcal.
- Preparation
- 20 minutes
- Cooking
- 30 minutes
- Total time
- 50 minutes
- Servings
- 2
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 870 kcal
- Protein
- 48 g
- Carbohydrates
- 11 g
- Fat
- 66 g
Ingredients
- Chicken breast250 g
- Bacon80 g
- Eggs2 pcs
- Avocado1 pc
- Blue cheese60 g
- Lettuce1 pc
- Cherry tomatoes150 g
- Olive oil2 tbsp
- Red wine vinegar1 tbsp
- Dijon mustard1 tsp
- Salt1 pinch
- Pepper1 pinch
Instructions
- 1
Pat the chicken dry. Salt and pepper both sides.
- 2
Place the eggs in boiling water and cook 9 minutes, then move them straight into cold water; peel and quarter.
Tip: The cold-water bath stops the cooking instantly - skip it and the yolks turn dry, with a gray-green ring.
- 3
Fry the bacon in a dry pan over medium heat until deeply crisp, about 8 minutes, turning halfway. Drain on paper towels. Pour off all but a spoon of the fat.
- 4
In that same pan, cook the chicken 6 minutes without moving, flip, then 6 more minutes until the thickest part is 75 °C or the juices run clear. Rest 5 minutes on a board, then slice.
Tip: The spoon of bacon fat seasons the chicken. If the pan looks dry, add a teaspoon of olive oil instead.
- 5
Whisk the olive oil, red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper into a smooth vinaigrette.
- 6
Chop the lettuce, halve the tomatoes and cube the avocado. Toss the avocado right away in a spoonful of the vinaigrette.
Tip: Cut the avocado last and coat it in dressing immediately - the acid keeps it from browning.
- 7
Spread the lettuce on a platter and arrange neat rows: chicken, broken bacon, eggs, avocado, tomatoes and crumbled blue cheese.
- 8
Drizzle the remaining vinaigrette over the rows just before serving - ideally at the table.
Cooking methods
On the stove
Eggs at a gentle boil. Start the bacon in a cold pan over medium heat so the fat renders before it crisps. Chicken goes into that same pan on medium-high.
On induction
Eggs: 7 of 9 to boil, then 5 to hold a simmer. Bacon on 5, drop to 4 if it browns too fast. Chicken on 6–7 in the same pan.
Over an open fire
A small pan on a grate over calm embers for bacon, then chicken. Nestle a pot of water at the fire's edge for the eggs.
Recipe questions
- How long does this recipe take?
- Plan for about 50 minutes from start to finish.
- How many servings does this recipe make?
- This recipe makes 2 servings.
- Can I cook this recipe on induction?
- Yes. Eggs: 7 of 9 to boil, then 5 to hold a simmer. Bacon on 5, drop to 4 if it browns too fast. Chicken on 6–7 in the same pan.
- Can I cook this recipe over an open fire?
- Yes. A small pan on a grate over calm embers for bacon, then chicken. Nestle a pot of water at the fire's edge for the eggs.
In the app
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