Cobb Salad With Ham Recipes

CLASSIC COBB SALAD

Steps:

• Place lettuce on a platter or in a large serving bowl. Arrange remaining ingredients in rows or sections as desired. Serve with dressing of choice; if desired, serve with sliced ripe olives and lemon wedges.

COBB SALAD WITH HAM AND HOMEMADE DRESSING

Steps:

• Whisk olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt, and pepper together in a small bowl until evenly combined.
• Place lettuce, ham, avocado, blue cheese, olives, tomatoes, and mushrooms in a large bowl. Toss until evenly combined.
• Transfer lettuce mixture to 2 serving plates. Add one sliced egg to each plate. Drizzle dressing over the top and serve.

CLASSIC COBB SALAD

Steps:

• Cook the bacon in a medium skillet over medium heat, stirring, until crisp, 15 to 20 minutes; transfer to paper towels to drain.
• Meanwhile, place the eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water by about 1 inch. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, then cover, remove from the heat and let stand, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain, then run under cold water to cool. Peel under cold running water. Chop the hard-cooked eggs and season with salt.
• Combine the chicken, lemon zest and juice, bay leaves, thyme, peppercorns and a large pinch of salt in a medium saucepan; add enough cold water to cover the chicken by 1/2 inch. Bring to a bare simmer over medium heat (do not boil) and cook until a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the chicken registers 160 degrees F, about 7 minutes. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board and let rest 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the dressing: Whisk the vinegar, shallot, mustard and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a serving bowl. Whisk in the olive oil in a slow, steady stream until emulsified; season with pepper. Dice the chicken and toss with 1 tablespoon of the dressing in a separate bowl.
• Halve, pit and dice the avocados. Season the tomatoes with salt. Add the Bibb and romaine lettuce to the serving bowl on top of the dressing. Arrange the bacon, hard-cooked eggs, chicken, avocados, tomatoes and blue cheese in rows on top of the lettuce. When ready to serve, toss the salad and season with salt and pepper.

COBB SALAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together all of the dressing ingredients and set aside.
• Slice the ham into 1/2-inch strips. Spray a nonstick skillet with cooking spray and preheat over a medium-high heat. Add the ham to the skillet and cook over stirring frequently, until the ham is warmed through and crisped, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• Remove and discard the yolk from 1 of the hard boiled eggs. Chop the remaining egg white and whole egg and set aside.
• In a large bowl toss the romaine and watercress with 2/3 of the dressing. Put the dressed greens onto a large serving dish. Place the tomatoes on top forming a row down the middle. In strips on either side of the tomatoes place the avocado, chicken, cheese, diced egg, and the crisped ham on top of the greens. Drizzle with the remaining dressing and serve.

COBB SALAD WITH HAM

Steps:

• Place lettuce on a dinner plate. Top with rows of hard-boiled egg, bacon, tomato, avocado, ham, blue cheese crumbles, and green onions. Drizzle with dressing.

COBB SALAD

Steps:

• PREPARE DRESSING: Combine all ingredients, except oils& blend well.
• Combine olive oil& salad oil in a separate bowl& mix well.
• Add to other ingredients& mix well.
• Cover& refrigerate until using.
• It keeps well for 6 weeks but be sure to blend well again just before using.
• PREPARE SALAD: Shred first 4 ingredients into 1/4 inch strips, toss together and place on 4 plates.
• Dice tomatoes, season with salt& pepper and place on top of the greens in one area of the plate.
• Cut chicken into strips, toss with bacon bits and 1 tbsp of the salad dressing and place beside the tomatoes.
• Dice or coarsely mash the avocado; season with salt& pepper and place next to the chicken.
• Cut the hard boiled eggs into quarters and arrange on the plates.
• Drizzle dressing over the salad, sprinkle with the roquefort& chives.

SWISS COBB SALAD

Steps:

• On a serving platter, layer the first 7 ingredients. Place dressing ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid; shake well. Serve with salad.

COBB SALAD HAM ROLL-UPS

Steps:

• Combine the mayonnaise and mustard in a bowl.
• Stir in the eggs, tomato, blue cheese and bacon until just combined.
• Set aside.
• Layer each ham slice with a lettuce leaf.
• Place a heaping Tablespoon of the egg mixture at one end of each slice.
• Starting at the end with the filling, roll and secure with a wooden tooth pick.