Name: Cobb Salad
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 2–4
Ingredients: ⅓ cup water; ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper; ½ medium red onion; 1 medium tomato; ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil; 1 avocado; 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (4–6 ounces each); 1 teaspoon dried chives; ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper; ½ teaspoon dried tarragon; 4 strips nitrate-free bacon; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 head iceberg or leaf lettuce; 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard; ¼ cup red wine vinegar; ⅛ teaspoon coarse (granulated) garlic powder; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves; a handful black olives; 4 large eggs

Preparation info

Serves
2–4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Well Fed Weeknights

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2016

About

Midnight, Hollywood, 1937. Robert Cobb, owner of the legendary Brown Derby, was peckish. So he and his pal Sid Grauman (of Chinese Theatre fame) grabbed leftovers from the restaurant’s fridge: salad greens, avocado, cheese, chicken breast, a hard-boiled egg, bacon. Grauman had recently been to the dentist and wasn’t chewing well, so they chopped everything into bite-sized pieces before tossing the salad with a vinaigr