Make it a salad-for-dinner night with this filling and flavorful Chicken Cobb Salad with Homemade Avocado Dressing! A bed of romaine lettuce topped with chicken, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and a homemade avocado dressing.
Last week I shared a recipe for Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing, and now I want to show you a great way to use it!
When we do salad for dinner, we like to make it a full meal by adding lots of filling ingredients. I rarely make salads on the side, but instead do something like this that includes lots of protein, veggies and other nutritious ingredients.
This Chicken Cobb Salad is one of our favorites because it fills us up and has lots of great texture and flavors.
How to Turn a Salad into a Meal
You can easily make salad into a filling meal by adding some extra protein and using a variety of ingredients.
This salad is topped with some of my favorite things: chicken, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and that delicious avocado dressing!
Hard-boiled eggs are something I ALWAYS make for our salads! I just love the taste and texture that they add.
How to Make Homemade Salad Dressing
The Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing is so simple to make. If you haven’t tried making your own dressings before, this is a great place to start!
It’s made with greek yogurt, avocado, fresh squeezed lime juice and a few spices. You can mix it up in minutes!
What Type of Chicken to Use for this Salad
For the chicken, you can use leftover chicken or cut up a rotisserie chicken. If I don’t have leftover or rotisserie chicken, here’s how I cook my chicken: first I’ll cook the bacon in a skillet, then cut up raw boneless chicken into small pieces and season with salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder before cooking in the bacon grease. So much flavor!
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The Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing originally appeared on A Savory Feast in this post, but I’ve included it within the recipe below to make things easier for you!
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Chicken Cobb Salad with Homemade Avocado Dressing
Make it a salad-for-dinner night with this filling and flavorful Chicken Cobb Salad with Homemade Avocado Dressing! A bed of romaine lettuce topped with chicken, bacon, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes and a homemade avocado dressing.
Ingredients
- 1 large head romaine lettuce, shredded (or lettuce of your choice)
- 1 pound cooked chicken, shredded or cut into small pieces (see notes)
- 6 slices of bacon, cooked and cut into small pieces
- 1 large tomato, diced
- 4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
- Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing
For the Dressing
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 cup greek yogurt
- Juice from 1/2 a lime
- 2 chives, chopped (or 1 tbsp dried chives)
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For the Salad:
- Place the lettuce in a salad bowl and top with chicken, bacon, tomato and eggs. Toss to combine if desired or you can serve with the ingredients decoratively displayed on top as seen in the recipe photos.
For the dressing:
- Combine the avocado, greek yogurt, lime juice, chives and cilantro in a food processor and mix well.
- Pour the dressing into a bowl and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Drizzle with Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing and serve.
Notes
For the chicken: Leftover, rotisserie, grilled, etc all work great! I cooked my bacon in a skillet first, and then cut the raw chicken into cubes and sautéed it in the bacon grease.
The Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing recipe originally appeared on A Savory Feast here.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 559Total Fat: 34gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 21gCholesterol: 315mgSodium: 637mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 3gSugar: 12gProtein: 46g
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