Quick Look at this Easy Grilled Chicken Cobb Salad
- Ready In: 40 minutes
- Serves: 4
- Protein: 28g per serving
- Main Ingredients: Romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, hard boiled eggs, and herby ranch dressing.
- Why You’ll Love It: This simple grilled chicken cobb salad is fresh, easy to throw together, and can be meal prepped for lunches throughout the week or made for dinner. Use our herby ranch dressing recipe for the best flavor!
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Key Ingredients & Substitutions
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- Romaine: Swap with butter lettuce or iceberg lettuce.
- Grilled Chicken: We used chicken breasts, but boneless, skinless chicken thighs would work too. Use rotisserie chicken to speed things up!
- Blue Cheese: Swap with feta or a dairy-free cheese.
- Herby Ranch Dressing: This is a phenomenal chicken cobb dressing, but could be swapped with a dairy-free ranch dressing.
How To Make A Grilled Chicken Cobb Salad
Step 1 – Combine herby ranch dressing ingredients in a small food processor.
Step 2 – Grill chicken breasts.
Step 3 – Hard boil eggs.
Step 4 – Assemble grilled chicken cobb salad.
Meal Prep
Meal prep grilled chicken cobb salad by cooking your chicken, bacon, and eggs in advance as well as making our herby ranch dressing. Store everything in separate containers in the refrigerator until you’re ready to assemble your salads.
Recipe FAQs
What to marinated chicken in for a grilled chicken cobb salad?
Use our best chicken marinade to add flavor to your grilled chicken for a grilled chicken cobb salad.
Romaine, bacon, tomatoes, grilled chicken and blue cheese are just a few of the classic cobb ingredients, but you can swap them out for your favorites.
Using the traditional ingredients of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, hard boiled eggs, and chicken make this recipe a grilled chicken cobb salad.
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Ingredients
Herby Ranch Dressing:
- ½ cup mayo
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon dried parsley leaves
- 1 tablespoon milk, buttermilk, unsweetened almond milk, reg. milk, more to thin
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- 1 ½ teaspoons dried dill weed
- 1 ½ teaspoons dried chives
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
Ultimate Cobb Salad:
- 2 cups romaine lettuce, chopped
- ¼ cup red onion, thinly sliced
- ½ cup cooked bacon, chopped
- 2 roma tomatoes, quartered
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- ⅔ cup blue cheese, crumbled
- 1 avocado, diced
- 2 hard boiled eggs, quartered
Instructions
- Herby Ranch Dressing: Add ingredients to a small blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Taste and adjust any flavors and add any salt or pepper, as desired.
- Grill Chicken Breasts: Preheat grill to 400 °F. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper on both sides. Place chicken directly on the grill grates and let cook over direct heat for 4-5 minutes per side. Move chicken to indirect heat and let cook for another 5-7 minutes or until the internal temp reaches 160 °F. Remove from heat and let rest for 5 minutes.
- Prep Ingredients: Make sure your bacon is cooked, eggs are hard-boiled and veggies are chopped.
- Build Salads: Divide lettuce, onion, bacon, tomato, chicken, blue cheese, avocado and hard boiled eggs between two large bowls. Top with as much Herby Ranch Dressing as you want!
Notes
- Chicken: Feel free to use whatever you prefer here – we used some grilled chicken breasts, but rotisserie chicken would be a great option too!
- Nutrition: The nutritional information does not include the herby ranch dressing as everyone uses slightly different amounts on their salad.
Liz says
Meal prepped this recipe at the start of the week and it made for the best lunches!