Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad

For anyone who gets tired of lettuce, this Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad has all the Cobb salad ingredients you love without the lettuce! Use the Diet-Type Index to find more Keto recipes like this one.

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Is the weather heating up where you are? When it starts to get really hot I pretty much live on salads, and I’ll confess there are times when I get pretty tired of lettuce. Maybe that’s why the idea for this Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad popped into my mind. I proposed it 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) ate the salad, and they were completely convinced that this was a great summer salad idea!

And please don’t be put off by the word Keto in the recipe title if you’re not following that type of diet. This salad is great for any type of carb-conscious diet, and if you like the ingredients used here you can adjust the ingredients any way you want to make it work for your personal eating plan. You also don’t have to bother with arranging your salad ingredients in rows if you’re just making this to eat for a quick dinner. But if you like chicken, boiled eggs, avocado, tomatoes, bacon, and blue cheese, I bet you’re going to love this salad!

We made perfect hard-cooked eggs while we chopped up the other ingredients. We started with rotisserie chicken and pre-cooked bacon (both from Costco) which made it easy. Chop up the chicken, avocado, and tomatoes and crumble the blue cheese and crisp bacon. By then the eggs should be cooked and cooled; chop them up as well.

Arrange the salad in a glass dish in rows if you want it to look pretty. 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.)

Serve the salad with dressing on the side, so people can drizzle on as much as they’d like. And enjoy!

More Tasty Salads with Some of These Ingredients:

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Avocado and Tomato Salad ~ Taste and Tell
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Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad

Yield: 4 servings

Total Time: 30 minutes

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes to cook eggs while you prep other ingredients

This Lettuce-Free 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 (plus buttermilk, milk, half and half, or heavy cream to thin the dressing if desired.)

Directions:

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.

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

All images and text ©Kalyn Denny for Kalyn's Kitchen.

Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This Lettuce-Free Keto Cobb Salad is a good dish for any low-glycemic or low-carb diet, including Keto. You can adjust the amounts of the higher-fat ingredients if you want to make it suitable for the South Beach Diet.

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