This Cobb Salad with Bacon is a fantastically delicious recipe for those hot no-cook summer days, or as a healthy side dish at any time during the year. A simple stroll through our homestead’s garden offers up everything we need for a delicious salad… But the real star here is our treasured dry salt cured bacon. Here's our recipe for homemade bacon.
Cobb Salad with Homemade Bacon
Cobb Salad
- 1 head butterhead lettuce (washed, dried and torn into pieces)
- 1/2 lb. chopped bacon
- 1 lb. cooked chicken (chopped)
- 1 cup crumbled cheese
- 1 cup purple cabbage (chopped)
- 1 cup carrot (shredded)
- ½ cup bell pepper (chopped)
- ½ cup radish (chopped)
Basic Vinaigrette
- ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
- ¾ cup Olive Oil
- 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
- Pinch of salt and pepper
- Fresh herbs
Cut the bacon into small chunks and fry until crisp. Remove to a plate and let cool.
Put lettuce into a bowl large enough for all the ingredients. Add crumbled cheese, fried bacon bits, chopped chicken and vegetables.
Whisk to combine ingredients.
Drizzle salad with the vinaigrette and serve with fresh bread.
More of my salad recipes:
Cori
Really enjoying these cooking videos! That bacon . . .oh MY!!
Alicia
Please share your method for curing bacon. I’ve got a couple of sides of bacon in my freezer that I need to cure and I would like to try your method. Do you just keep it hanging in the kitchen like that until it is used up?
Alicia
BTW, I’m really enjoying these videos and am so impressed with the quality and how quickly you are cranking them out!
Laura
Not to sound redundant, but these videos are great.. Keep ’em coming 🙂
Nicole @Little Blog on the Homestead
Yum!! Good bacon makes all the difference!! We’re waiting for our half pig we bought to be butchered in the next month or so…it’s been a sad house without any good bacon!!
Katie B.
I love these videos! I’m also a little obsessed with your kitchen — for years I’ve wanted a space to hang cure my homemade sausage and bacon, but we just don’t have the room. Can’t wait to try this salad!
Andrea Rosenblum
Wow. Great video and recipe. Can’t wait to try.
Emily
The salad looks delicious, but that bacon, oh man, I literally watched the video several times just to see it hanging there in your kitchen! Amazing!! I just recently found your blog, so I looked back through the archives and found your post on how you cured it. I can’t wait to try this someday.
Hilary
This video made me miss summer and the loveliness of my garden. *sigh* But I’m excited and hopeful for next year! By the way, your salad bowl is the cutest ever!
Deborah Wilson
Shaye this salad looks so yummy can’t wait to make it loved the video thanks