Cobb Salad

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By G. Daniela Galarza

This is, according to respective sources, the archetypal Cobb salad, which was the invention of Los Angeles edifice proprietor Bob Cobb. In the aboriginal 1920s, helium started making it astatine the Brown Derby successful Los Angeles for late-night meals with his friends. In 1929, erstwhile the Hollywood Brown Derby opened, helium enactment it connected the menu. It didn’t instrumentality agelong earlier the chopped crockery with chicken, bacon, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and avocado became the restaurant’s signature dish. The Brown Derby utilized poached chickenhearted breasts, cooked the bacon until it was highly crisp, froze the bluish food and grated it into the salad, hard-cooked the eggs, finely shredded the greens and utilized tons of dressing. This look has been adapted from the archetypal to maximize ratio and marque a smaller portion. To service it similar they did astatine the Brown Derby, sheet it connected chilled dishes and flip it with the French dressing conscionable earlier serving.

Adapted from “The Brown Derby Restaurant” by Sally Wright Cobb and Mark Willems (Rizzoli, 1996).

Ingredients

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Servings: 4 (makes astir 12 cups crockery and 1 cupful dressing)

For the dressing

1/4 cupful water
1/4 cupful reddish vino vinegar
1 tablespoonful English mustard, specified arsenic Colman’s
1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
1 spoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tiny clove garlic, minced oregon finely grated
1/4 spoon granulated sugar, positive much arsenic needed
1/8 spoon good salt, positive much arsenic needed
1/8 spoon freshly cracked achromatic pepper, positive much arsenic needed
1/2 cupful olive oregon rootlike oil, positive much arsenic needed

For the salad

1 full bone-in, skin-on, divided chickenhearted bosom (14 ounces)
1/8 spoon good salt, positive much arsenic needed
1/8 spoon freshly cracked achromatic pepper, positive much arsenic needed
8 strips bacon (8 ounces)
1 ripe avocado, halved, pitted and diced
1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
2 mean ripe tomatoes (10 ounces total), diced
4 ample eggs
1 romaine lettuce bosom (7 ounces), finely chopped
1/2 mean caput iceberg lettuce (7 ounces total), finely chopped
1/2 tiny caput chicory, finely chopped
2 tablespoons finely chopped caller chives
4 ounces Roquefort oregon different bluish cheese, crumbled

Nutritional Facts

(3 cups crockery positive 1/4 cupful dressing)

Calories
652
Fat
54 g
Saturated Fat
14 g
Carbohydrates
10 g
Sodium
1179 mg
Cholesterol
177 mg
Protein
34 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “The Brown Derby Restaurant” by Sally Wright Cobb and Mark Willems (Rizzoli, 1996).

Tested by G. Daniela Galarza.

Published January 11, 2024

Updated March 17, 2026