Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad

This Keto Cobb Salad has all the ingredients that make Cobb Salad satisfying, and it’s perfect when you’re tired of lettuce! And this lettuce-free salad is a perfect main dish salad that’s good any time of year!

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Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad is an idea that popped into my mind because I love salads, but there are times when I get tired of lettuce. And this salad has all the Cobb Salad ingredients I always eat first, which is why I decided this salad doesn’t really need lettuce! And don’t you agree that this sounds like a tasty lunch or dinner any time of year?

I proposed the idea to Jake and Kara when we were having a cooking session, and let’s just say they were skeptical. But then we cut up the ingredients, mixed the dressing, photographed it, and then (always the best part) tried the salad, and they were completely convinced that this was a great salad idea!

You don’t have to bother with arranging the Keto Cobb Salad ingredients in rows, especially if you’re just making this to eat for a quick lunch or dinner. But if you like chicken, boiled eggs, avocado, tomatoes, bacon, and blue cheese, I bet you’re going to love this low-carb Cobb Salad recipe without lettuce!

What ingredients do you need for this recipe?

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• eggs, hard-cooked and then diced
• cooked rotisserie chicken
• avocados
• bacon, cooked crisp and then crumbled
• tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
• crumbled blue cheese
• Blue Cheese Dressing of your choice

How low in carbs is the Keto Cobb Salad?

This tasty salad without lettuce has only 4.8 net carbs per serving and 44 grams of protein!

Will people who aren’t eating Keto like this recipe?

This salad will appeal to everyone who picks out the chicken, avocado, and bacon when they’re eating a Cobb salad, so please don’t worry about the word Keto in the recipe title! The salad is perfect for any type of carb-conscious diet, and you can adjust the ingredients any way you want to make it work for your personal eating plan.

More Options for a Keto Cobb Salad:

This recipe has the traditional Cobb Salad ingredients, but if you’re not a fan of every ingredient we used, just make a salad with the ones you like best! And if you want to try some non-traditional substitutes you could use Feta or Cotija Cheese instead of blue cheese, switch out the chopped chicken for turkey or ham, or switch the bacon for chopped salami.

How to make Keto Cobb Salad without Lettuce:

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1. We made perfect hard-cooked eggs while we chopped up the other ingredients.
2. We started with rotisserie chicken and pre-cooked bacon (both from Costco) which made it easy.
3. Chop up the chicken, avocado, and tomatoes and crumble the blue cheese and crisp bacon.
4. By then the eggs should be cooked and cooled; chop them up as well.
5. Arrange the salad in a glass dish in rows if you want it to look pretty.
6. I mixed some buttermilk with my favorite blue cheese dressing to make a slightly thinner dressing. (If you’re following the Keto diet you might want to replace the buttermilk with heavy cream, or just use the dressing without thinning it if you prefer.)
7. Serve the Keto Cobb Salad with dressing on the side, so people can drizzle on as much as they’d like. And enjoy!

More Main Dish Keto Salads:

• Nicoise Tuna Salad Recipe
• Arugula Chicken Salad (with Mozzarella and Tomatoes
• Perfect Low-Carb Taco Salad

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Yield: 4 servings

Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

This tasty Keto Cobb Salad has all the Cobb salad ingredients you love without the lettuce!

Ingredients

• 4 eggs, hard-cooked and then diced
• 2 cups cooked rotisserie chicken, cut into 3/4 inch cubes
• 2 avocados, diced and tossed with lime juice
• 12 slices bacon, cooked crisp and then crumbled (We used pre-cooked bacon that we crisped in the microwave.)
• 1 cup diced tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
• 1 cup crumbled blue cheese
• Blue Cheese Dressing of your choice (see notes)

Instructions

1. Use one of the methods for Perfect Hard-Cooked Eggs to cook the eggs while you prep the other ingredients. When they're done, put the eggs into ice water to cool.
2. Cut up the chicken into 3/4 inch pieces.
3. Crisp bacon in the microwave for about 1 minutes (for pre-cooked bacon) or cook in a frying pan until crisp, then crumble the bacon.
4. Cup up enough tomatoes or cherry tomatoes to make 1 cup of diced tomatoes.
5. Crumble enough blue cheese (or Gorgonzola cheese) to make 1 cup crumbled blue cheese.
6. As soon as eggs are cool, peel them and coarsely chop.
7. Arrange the ingredients in rows in a glass serving dish (or just toss together in a bowl if you prefer.)
8. If you want to thin the dressing, use equal parts purchased blue cheese dressing and buttermilk, milk, half and half or heavy cream. You can adjust it to your own preference, I like slightly more dressing than buttermilk when I make it.
9. Serve salad with dressing on the side for each person to drizzle over as they eat it.

Notes

Add buttermilk, milk, half and half, or heavy cream to thin the dressing if desired.

The highest carb items here are the tomatoes and the avocado, so use less of those if you prefer even less carbs.

This salad was an idea that just popped into Kalyn's head!

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 686Total Fat 52gSaturated Fat 17gUnsaturated Fat 32gCholesterol 310mgSodium 1120mgCarbohydrates 12gFiber 7.2gSugar 2.1gProtein 44g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.

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Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
The Keto Cobb Salad recipe without lettuce is a good dish for any low-carb diet, including Keto of course. You could reduce the amounts of the higher-fat ingredients to make it more suitable for the original South Beach Diet, although this salad does have a lot of high-fat ingredients.

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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This Keto Cobb Salad was first posted in 2018, and I’ve made it regularly since then! It was last updated with more information in 2025.

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