Cobb Salad: Double the Meat and Hold the Lettuce!

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Total Time:
35 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
20 min
Yield:
4 servings
Level:
Easy
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Ingredients

  • 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoons grill seasoning blend (recommended: Montreal Steak Seasoning by McCormick)
  • 2 tablespoons hot sauce, eyeball it
  • 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, eyeball it
  • 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
  • 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil, plus some for drizzling
  • 2 pounds flank steak
  • 8 pieces "thin cut" chicken breast cutlets
  • 2 slightly under ripe Hass avocados - dark skinned, but still firm
  • 2 vine ripe tomatoes cut into wedges
  • 2 bunches watercress, trimmed and roughly chopped
  • 8 strips bacon, thick sliced
  • 1 lemon, zest and juiced
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1/3 pound blue cheese, crumbled (recommended Maytag Blue)

Directions

Heat a grill pan or outdoor grill to high heat.

Mix garlic, steak seasoning, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce and vinegar. Whisk in the extra-virgin olive oil. Divide the mixture between 2 shallow dishes. Add the flank steak to one and the thin chicken cutlets to the other. Toss to coat all of the meats thoroughly and marinate for 5 minutes.

While the flank steak and chicken are marinating, cut the avocados in half lengthwise cutting around the pit. Separate the halves then, using a spoon, scoop out the pit, then use the spoon to scoop the avocado from its skin. Chop the avocado flesh into bite size pieces add to a mixing bowl. Add the tomatoes, watercress and crisp chopped bacon. Dress the salad with the juice of 1 lemon and a generous drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil, salt and pepper.

Grill flank steak 6 to 7 minutes on each side. Grill the thin cut chicken cutlets 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Remove both meats from the grill to a cutting board to rest for about 5 minutes. Thinly slice the flank steak on an angle, cutting the meat against the grain. Cut the chicken into thin strips. Add both meats to a platter or dinner plates. Top the meats with a mound of the salad. To make the dressing, combine in a small bowl the lemon zest and juice, Dijon mustard, salt, pepper, crumbled blue cheese, whisk in 3 tablespoons EVOO. Pour the dressing over the salad. Eat and enjoy the lack of lettuce getting in your way!

Tidbit

A Cobb Salad is usually a big mound of lettuce topped with strips of chopped chicken, bacon, avocado, tomatoes, hardboiled egg and blue cheese. I love it, but I've noticed that once I mix it up and start eating, my fork is busy fishing around the lettuce trying to catch all the chicken and bacon. So, I decided to hold the lettuce. I did add some watercress, but that's for its great peppery flavor!

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  • on May 13, 2013

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    The meat and chicken marinade was awesome. The whole thing worked together very well. Might add a little more watercress the next time but otherwise, wouldnt change a thing.

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  • on May 09, 2013

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    This was one of our favorites lately! Soo good! I am going to try it again tonight, but cut the chicken. Perhaps I went with too thin of a cut, but it was dry and didn't add anything to the dish.

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  • on August 07, 2012

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    If you typically buy a salad from a cafe for lunch, try packing this instead; it's [probably] better than your usual! The dressing is so good!

    I prepared this as a Chicken Cobb Salad (ommitted the steak and used romaine lettuce. I LOVE the flavor of lemon, but I'd gradually add the lemon juice/zest if you don't. The lemon flavor is STRONG as the recipe is written. This is a restaurant quality entree salad. I'll definitely be making this again!

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