A Cobb Salad recipe is easy to toss together with crowd-pleasing ingredients including crumbled bacon, shredded Cheddar, diced avocados, and sliced hard-boiled eggs.

Easy Cobb Salad Recipe at Mom Always Finds Out

This easy Cobb salad may be a little different from other ones you have seen, but I made it just the way we like it at my house.

Cobb Salad Ingredients

Cobb Salad ingredients usually include shredded lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, and avocado. The bottom layer of the salad is shredded lettuce. Each of the toppings are layed in neat rows across the top of the lettuce.

Served on its own, a Cobb salad makes a delicious light meal. To make it a Cobb salad a little more filling, top it with sliced grilled chicken. That’s one of my favorite summer go-to meal ideas.

If grilled chicken isn’t an option, slice up some deli meat to bite size pieces and add to the salad. Our favorite deli meat add-ons are turkey and ham.

Personally, I prefer to eat my Cobb salads without any salad dressing at all. But, if you are like my husband and kids, they enjoy Cobb salads with creamy Ranch dressing.

A vinaigrette dressing would also be a perfect match for this salad.

Easy Cobb Salad Recipe

Give this easy Cobb Salad Recipe a try. If you don’t like one of the toppings, feel free to leave it out. Make it your way!

For example, half of my family does not like tomatoes in their salad. So, we compromise by using whole cherry or grape tomatoes. That way, they can pick around the tomatoes or try not to scoop a tomato on their plate at all.

If you love a cheesy salad, add a little more cheese to make it just right for you. There are no wrong answers here.

Salad Making and Serving Tools

I don’t like to have a lot of extra kitchen tools around taking up space. So I wouldn’t recommend anything to you that I don’t have and love to use.

For salad making, I recommend a salad spinner. It really is a game changer for washing and drying lettuce! The OXO salad spinner I currently have can also double as a salad serving bowl.

An OXO Salad Spinner helps wash and dry lettuce and other produce. Plus, the clear outer bowl doubles as a salad serving bowl.

I make a lot more salads at home now that have a salad spinner. It took all the messy work out of washing and drying lettuce. PLUS it works to wash and dry just about any other kind of produce you want. It’s very useful and earns its spot in my kitchen cabinet.

A sharp kitchen knife and cutting board helps make cutting, slicing, and dicing lettuce and everything else in the salad a breeze.

My cheese grater is a must because freshly grated cheese tastes SO MUCH BETTER ON YOUR SALAD than the grated cheese you buy in a bag at the store.

For serving salad, a pair of salad serving tongs makes it easy to pick up and serve salad.

Cobb Salad Recipe

Name: Cobb Salad Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 6 cups shredded Romaine lettuce (2 Romaine heads); 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese; 1 bunch green onions, diced; 1 avocado, diced; 1/2 cup grape tomatoes; 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced; 6 slices thick cut bacon, cooked and crumbled; 1/2 cucumber, sliced

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Easy Cobb Salad Recipe made with shredded lettuce, tomatoes, crumbled bacon, hard-boiled egg, avocado, Cheddar cheese, cucumber and green onions.

Ingredients

6 cups shredded Romaine lettuce (2 Romaine heads)
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 bunch green onions, diced
1 avocado, diced
1/2 cup grape tomatoes
2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
6 slices thick cut bacon, cooked and crumbled
1/2 cucumber, sliced

Instructions

In a large bowl, toss the shredded lettuce with diced green onions, reserving about a Tablespoon of green onions to sprinkle on top of the finished salad.
Arrange each topping ingredient in neat rows across the top of the shredded lettuce: cheese, avocado, cucumber, crumbled bacon, grape tomatoes, and hard-boiled eggs.
Sprinkle the reserved green onions across the top. Serve!

Notes

To make the Cobb Salad a more filling meal, add sliced grilled chicken breasts to the top. Or, slice deli meat (turkey and/or ham) into bite-sized pieces and add to the top of the salad.