Cobb salad

Name: Cobb salad
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 hard-boiled eggs; 4 thick slices bacon, diced; 4 cooked chicken breasts; 1 avocado, peeled and stoned; 4 tomatoes; 1 cos lettuce, finely sliced; 200g cottage cheese; 100g blue cheese, chopped

Jill Dupleix

November 9, 2016

Cobb Salad is a dish favoured by Hollywood stars.Edwina Pickles

easyTime:< 30 minsServes:4

The classic American chopped salad, the Cobb was created by the owner of Los Angeles' long-gone Brown Derby restaurant in 1937 from leftover ingredients - namely bacon, tomato, chicken, avocado, hard-boiled egg, chives, watercress, lettuce and blue cheese. You can dial this recipe up any way you like (red capsicum, celery, carrots, apple cucumber, salami, chickpeas).

Ingredients

4 hard-boiled eggs
4 thick slices bacon, diced
4 cooked chicken breasts
1 avocado, peeled and stoned
4 tomatoes
1 cos lettuce, finely sliced
200g cottage cheese
100g blue cheese, chopped

Dressing

2 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp sugar or honey
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
Sea salt and pepper
4 tbsp olive oil

Method

1. Peel the hard-boiled eggs and cut into small dice. Fry the bacon until crisp, then drain well. Keeping the ingredients separate, chop the chicken breast, avocado and tomatoes, and allow tomatoes to drain their juices.
2. Whisk the dressing ingredients together until smooth. Toss the lettuce in half the dressing and arrange in a single line in the middle of each dinner plate. Add a parallel row of cottage cheese and top it with chopped blue cheese.
3. Arrange the chicken, eggs, bacon, avocado and tomato either side, and drizzle with remaining dressing. Let everyone toss their own salad together as they eat.
Note: You can turn any of your favourite salads - Nicoise, fattoush, caesar - into a chopped salad by chopping the ingredients and arranging them in rows.