Dinner · 20 min · 2 plates
Cobb salad
Rows, not a toss. Chicken, egg, bacon, avocado, blue if you have it. A sharp dressing. Don't make a chopped salad and call it a Cobb.
The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Rows, not a toss. Chicken, egg, bacon, avocado, blue if you have it. A sharp dressing. Don't make a chopped salad and call it a Cobb.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- lettuce
- chicken
- eggs
- bacon
- avocado
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: blue cheese.
Method
- Arranged in rows, never tossed. It is a composed salad and the arrangement is the dish.
- Every component prepared and cooled separately — bacon crisp, eggs nine minutes, chicken rested.
- Dress the leaves only, underneath, so the rows stay visible and nothing goes soggy.
- Dressing at the table for the rest. Avocado cut last so it does not brown.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- lettuce
- Structure and water, and it is worth being fussy about.
- chicken
- Two different foods depending on the cut.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- bacon
- Fat, salt and smoke, and the rendered fat is the more valuable half.
- avocado
- Fat with no cooking required — it does what butter or cream would do in a dish that has neither.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares bacon, lettuce, avocado
BLT with avocado
Crisp bacon, ripe tomato, or skip it.
Shares bacon, eggs, lettuce
Lyonnaise salad
Warm bacon vinaigrette on bitter greens, a poached or jammy egg. Frisée would be classic; lettuce is the drawer.
Shares avocado, eggs
Avocado eggs
Toast hard, because everything going on top of it is soft. A fried egg with crisp white edges turns it from a snack into a breakfast.
Shares chicken, lettuce
Leftover wine-chicken sandwich
The coq from last night, Dijon, a leaf. Don't microwave the chicken into cotton.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.