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Valentine Cobb Salad

How to make Valentine Cobb Salad with Peppercorn dressing lizbushong.com
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Crisp  butter-crunch lettuce layered in heart shaped bowl garnished with cherry tomatoes, pickled egg, avocado, smoky bacon, blue cheese with peppercorn parmesan dressing.

Ingredients

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Salad

4 small heads of buttercrunch, bibb lettuce, or spring mix

1 pint sweet cherry grape tomatoes

8 slices cooked smoky bacon strips, crumbled or chunked in pieces

2 avocados, peeled, cored and sliced for 4 salads

4 yellow pickled eggs, or peeled hard boiled eggs, sliced thin

1/4 pound blue cheese chucks or crumbles

For a meal: add sliced organic chicken breasts, or beef strips

Peppercorn Parmesan Dressing

1/2 cup sour cream or greek yogurt

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1 teaspoon honey

1–2 teaspoons coarse black peppercorns or assorted peppercorns

1/2 cup parmesan cheese, finely grated

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/2 teaspoon sea salt or grey salt

1/4 cup whole buttermilk

Instructions

  1. Make peppercorn parmesan dressing. In small bowl, add sour cream, mayonnaise, and honey. Whisk to blend.
  2. Add white wine vinegar, salt, cracked peppercorn, parmesan cheese.
  3. Add buttermilk, whisk dressing until blended.
  4. Serve dressing on the side.

Salad

  1. In serving dish, layer buttercrunch lettuce and lettuce’s  in bitesize pieces.
  2. Half cherry tomatoes to one section of the serving dish.
  3. Add bacon to center of plate/serving dish. Place blue cheese cubes under or around bacon.
  4. Add sliced pickled egg to opposite side of plate, with avocado slices near the egg.
  5. Serve salad with dressing on the side.

Notes

  1. Make pickled eggs one day ahead, pickled eggs will last up to 3-4 days. Pickled eggs the longer they sit in brine, the darker the yellow the eggs will become, they will also get rubbery the longer they sit. Must be stored in refrigerator, no canning or preservation required.  See link.
  2. Make dressing ahead to save time and to allow to develop flavor.
  3. Can us crumbled blue cheese or feta, substitute smoky bacon for regular bacon.

 

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