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Mexican Cobb Salad

April 17, 2016 By cookingintherockies 4 Comments

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Mexican Cobb Salad

Who says that you can only get a good salad at a restaurant? Not me! Mexican Cobb Salad, is a tasty variation of the old stand by.

Meanwhile in Colorado, we are getting hit with day two of “snowmageddon”, again. Since we are in desperate need of water in our state, I can’t complain, but come on…. This is a lot of snow! The crazy thing is that yesterday it was snowing so hard but melting as it was hitting the ground, so at my house we have twenty inches that has stuck. At my folk’s house in Evergreen, they are digging out of three feet of snow! I can’t imagine what it would have been like if it was colder yesterday. We would have been home bound for a week! Whew! We dodged that bullet!  With all the wet heavy snow, my internet keeps going out, so I will be a little short on this post and hope that Comcast can get whatever is not working, working again! The weather people say that it’s going to move out by tonight. Let’s hope so, we have a lot of tennis to play outside this week! LOL!

While I was stuck in my house yesterday, I decided to make a big salad to eat all week. I love Cobb Salads and it as weird as it may seem, I had all the ingredients in my fridge, including buttermilk (I can’t remember why I bought it) to make my own “salad” bar. I love a good buttermilk ranch dressing, so I spruced it up with a bunch of Mexican flavors and a Mexican Cobb Salad was born! In the recipe below, I’ll tell you how to make the dressing, but will leave the salad making up to you. Make it a big or as little as you want and add the ingredients to your liking. You can’t really mess this up and you can have a restaurant quality salad at home. Just the way I like it cause this would definitely be one of those $15 dollar salads at a restaurant and who likes to spend $15 on a salad? Not this gal! This is fun to make for the whole family, just put out bowls of all the ingredients and let everyone build their own salad! Sounds like a good plan to me! 🙂

Enjoy!


 

Mexican Cobb Salad
Recipe Type: Salad and Salad Dressing
Author: Heather Blake
Make it the way that you like and serve it with this creamy Chipotle Buttermilk Ranch Dressing!
Ingredients
  • Your favorite lettuce, chopped
  • hard boiled eggs, sliced into quarters
  • crumbled bacon
  • chicken breast, either grilled or sauted
  • tortilla chips
  • radishes, sliced
  • corn, (fresh or frozen) (If using frozen corn, just thaw it out)
  • cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
  • fresh cilantro, chopped
  • cojita cheese, crumbled
  • pumpkin seeds
  • [br][b]Chipotle Buttermilk Ranch Dressing[/b][br]
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 1/2- 1 3/4 cup of buttermilk
  • 1 tbs apple cidar vineger
  • 1 tbs honey
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped fine
  • 1/2 cup green onions, sliced thin
  • 1/2 red pepper, chopped fine
  • 1-2 chipotle peppers, chopped fine
  • 1 tbs of the sauce from the chipotle pepper can
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
Instructions
  1. Prepare all the ingredients for the salad. It’s best to put the ingredients in separate bowls and toss together the salad when you are ready to serve.
  2. To make the dressing, whisk together the mayo, buttermilk, vinegar, honey, garlic, cilantro, green onions, red pepper, chipotle peppers, sauce from the chipotle peppers, cumin, salt and pepper. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. Serve with the salad.
Notes
I like my salad dressing to have a “thinner” consistency, so I put in 1 3/4 cup of buttermilk. Start with 1 1/2 cups and adjust to your taste. [br][br]Salad tip. This salad has a lot of ingredients so it is best to keep all the ingredients separated until ready to serve to prevent it from getting “soggy”… I just keep everything in zip lock bags and make an individual salad when I am ready! [br][br]A little “tip”. The extra chipotle peppers can be stored in the freezer for later use. Just put in a zip lock bag and freeze them. When you need them again, just thaw them out and add to your next creation!
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Charming Charlie

Charming Charlie loves to sit in the snow! He is such a poser!

Tree

We haven’t had any broken branches in my hood yet, thank goodness… This old tree doesn’t look so happy though!

Filed Under: Gluten free, Main Courses, Protein Dishes, Recipes, Salads and Salad Dressings Tagged With: bacon, chipotle buttermilk ranch dressing, hearty salad, Mexican Cobb Salad, Mexican cobb salad recipe, Rocky Mountain Cooking

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Comments

  1. Larry says

    April 17, 2016 at 2:34 PM

    Sounds delicious Heather and the snow tree looks beautiful. I;d like to be there piled up in front of a big fire.

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    • cookingintherockies says

      April 17, 2016 at 2:49 PM

      It was very pretty out this morning Larry! You won’t believe it though… the melt has started- my 20 inches is now 13 inches in just a couple of hours! Crazy, huh? Hope you are doing well!

      Reply
  2. Lea Ann (Cooking on the Ranch) says

    April 17, 2016 at 1:10 PM

    Love this salad and the dressing. Pinning this one…. since I’ve been sitting around eating candy all day. I need some salad.
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    • cookingintherockies says

      April 17, 2016 at 1:26 PM

      Candy? You have candy in your house? I wanna come over for that! lol!

      Reply

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