Cobb Salad with Grilled Chicken and Cilantro Vinaigrette

Take your salad game to the next level with this mouthwatering cobb salad featuring grilled chicken and a tangy avocado vinaigrette!

Why We Love this Chicken Cobb Salad Recipe

This main dish salad uses simple ingredients that come together to pack in so much flavor! It combines a variety of flavors in any good cobb salad, like the savory taste of chicken, the richness of bacon and avocado, the tanginess of blue cheese, and the freshness of vegetables like lettuce, tomatoes, and radishes.

Adding chicken breast makes the salad more filling and nutritious. The protein content from chicken, hard-boiled eggs, and bacon is satisfying, especially for those looking for a hearty yet healthy meal.

While it’s a salad (and generally considered healthy), the inclusion of ingredients like chicken, cheese, and avocado gives it a satisfying richness that feels indulgent without being overly heavy.

This is also my favorite salad for entertaining! It would be great for a brunch dish plated on a large plate or large serving platter like this one or this one, served alongside an asparagus goat cheese tart, smoked salmon avocado toast, or fluffy french toast with whipped mascarpone.

Looking for more delicious salad recipes? Check out my shaved asparagus salad, the best healthy grilled chicken taco salad or my grilled peach and steak salad.

Key Ingredients for this Chicken Cobb Salad Recipe

Lettuce

Chopped romaine lettuce is used in a traditional cobb salad, but feel free to use other salad greens like mixed greens, shredded kale, or iceberg if you wish

Chicken

This is a great recipe to use up a bunch of leftover ingredients, like chicken! Whether that be leftover rotisserie chicken or chicken from the weekend BBQ, chop it up and throw it right on top of the salad!

Tomatoes

Another ingredient that provides a burst of freshness in this mouthwatering dish. You can choose cherry tomatoes, chopped heirloom, or even plum tomatoes! It’s a great way to use up those tomatoes from your summer garden!

Cheese

The classic cobb salad calls for blue cheese crumbles, but you could add goat cheese, shredded cheddar cheeses, or any of your favorites!

Bacon

Crispy bacon is a must have on this filling salad. it’s satisfying crunch and smoky, salty, and savory taste complements the other ingredients like creamy avocado, tangy blue cheese, and fresh vegetables. Its umami-rich profile enhances the salad’s depth of flavor.

Eggs

Eggs add a creamy and slightly rich texture to the salad, which complements the crispiness of greens and the other toppings like chicken, bacon, and avocado. Their mild flavor balances out the stronger tastes of blue cheese or dressing. They also add high-quality protein, essential vitamins like B12 and D, and minerals like selenium and phosphorus. The yolk is also a good source of healthy fats and choline, which supports brain health.

The main trick to easily peeling hard boiled eggs is to immediately plunge them into an ice bath after boiling, which rapidly cools the egg causing the egg white to contract and separate from the shell, making it much easier to peel; you can also try using slightly older eggs as they tend to peel better than fresh ones. 

I was invited to the Home and Housewares show last year and stopped by their booth to check out the product.  I couldn’t believe how easy it was to peel eggs with the NEGG®!  I couldn’t wait to get home and get my hands on one.

As you can tell from the video above, peeling eggs is a breeze with this tiny little device, and my salads (and life) will never be the same!  I was able to put together this incredibly delicious cobb salad with avocado vinaigrette in just minutes!

Cobb Salad with Grilled Chicken and Cilantro Vinaigrette

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• Author: Nicole Triebe
• Prep Time: 10 minutes
• Cook Time: 10 minutes
• Total Time: 20 minutes
• Yield: 4 1x

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Take your salad game to the next level with this mouthwatering cobb salad featuring grilled chicken and a tangy avocado vinaigrette.

 

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Ingredients

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• 6 cups fresh greens, such as romaine
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
• Handful snap peas, sliced
• 4 ounces blue cheese crumbles
• 1 avocado, sliced
• 6 strips crispy bacon, crumbled
• 4 hard boiled eggs, sliced
• 2 cooked chicken breasts, sliced

For the Vinaigrette:

• 1 ripe avocado
• 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
• Juice of one lemon
• 3 tbl chopped cilantro
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

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Instructions

To make the dressing:

1. In a food processor, combine avocado, cilantro, vinegar, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Run processor until very smooth and creamy.
2. With processor running on low, stream in olive oil through the chute until just combined.

To assemble the salad:

1. In a large salad bowl, combine the greens, tomatoes, snap peas, and blue cheese. Top the salad with avocado, chicken, bacon, and eggs. Serve the salad alongside the avocado vinaigrette.

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