Make an easy, hearty, and filling low carb and keto Cobb salad recipe as a main dish salad for dinner or as a meal prep lunch. Makes 2 hearty serving or 3 smaller servings.
Low Carb Cobb salad is so simple!
Our hearty and filling Cobb salad recipe is packed with the classic flavors of chicken, bacon, hard boiled eggs, avocado, and blue cheese. We made this without a homemade keto dressing and instead use store-bought dressing to make it even easier. (Suggestions below!)
Perfect for lunch or dinner, our low carb Cobb is a great way to stick to your high protein low carb, keto, or gluten free health plan. Our keto Cobb salad has 547 calories, 44g of protein, and 5 net carbs per serving.
Eating main dish salads with low carb veggies is an easy way to eat healthy on a high protein low carb or keto health plan. We highly recommend adding our reader favorite Big Mac salad, Greek chicken salad bowls, and our taco salad bowls to your weekly meal plan.
Key ingredients
- Romaine lettuce - we used an 8oz bag, which will make 2-3 salads. Chop or shred.
- Avocado
- Bacon - pre-cooked
- Hard-boiled eggs - you can easily hard-boil your eggs in your instant pot or make air fryer boiled eggs.
- Chicken - pre-cooked, chopped or shredded. Rotisserie chicken is a great option too. We cook these baked chicken breasts every week for meal prep and to add to recipes like this.
- Grape Tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, or tomato slices
- Blue cheese- blue cheese is the classic pairing, but you can also use feta or mozzarella balls.
- Green onion is used as a garnish, you can also top the salad with fresh herbs.
- Dressing of your choice- blue cheese, oil and vinegar, cilantro lime, etc. (Be sure if you are purchasing a store-bought dressing doesn't add extra sugar and is low in carbs.)
How to make Cobb salad (low carb)
Prep Ingredients
If you have your ingredients ready to go and precooked, or you buy store-bought ingredients like rotisserie chicken, boiled eggs, or even bacon you can skip this section!
Here's our easy recipes if it's needed.
- Chicken - use our easy boneless skinless chicken breasts recipe you can bake in the oven.
- Bacon - bake an entire pack in the oven or just a few slices in an air fryer.
- Hard boiled eggs - cook them in an Instant Pot or an air fryer.
Assemble
- Lay a bed of lettuce on the bottom of a bowl, a small plate, or in a mason jar.
- Add your protein: Arrange the chicken slices, crumbled bacon, and hard boiled eggs.
- Add veggies: Add the halved tomatoes and avocado slices.
- Top with blue cheese and a garnish like sliced green onions or other fresh herbs.
If eating immediately, top with dressing. If you are meal prepping, wait to dress the salad until the day you eat it. Enjoy!
Extra helpful tips
- To cleanly slice eggs, make sure the egg is cold and cut it with a cold, wet knife. Wipe the knife before cutting again. You could also try an egg cutter.
- Make different versions of this low-carb cobb salad by using different types of protein and a variety of dressings.
- You can serve this as one large salad instead of making smaller salad bowls, as we did in our photos.
FAQ's
The classic Cobb salad does include blue cheese crumbles and often blue cheese dressing. But truth be told, not everyone like it! You can totally make your Cobb without blue cheese. Just skip the cheese entirely or swap it for feta cheese, mini cheese balls, or cheese cubes.
Cobb salad can be a keto friendly recipe, but to make sure it fits with your high protein low carb health plan, we highly recommend you make it yourself at home. The extra carbs usually come from the dressing that might have sugar added, or perhaps any coating used to make the chicken. Our recipe has 5 net carbs per serving.
When you're on the go and need to stop and eat a healthy low carb meal, the Chick-fil-a Cobb salad can be a great choice. Make sure to order their version with grilled chicken, no corn, no tomato, and with their avoado lime Ranch dressing. It's 585 calories, 5 net carbs, 38g of fat, and has 31g of protein.
Good tasting and low carb salad dressings that are great for our low carb Cobb salad include Primal Kitchen's Ranch dressing, Ken's Steakhouse Chunky Blue Cheese, or Newman's Own Olive Oil u0026 Vinegar. All of these are less than 2 net carbs per serving.
More low carb salad recipes
- Keto Broccoli Salad
- Italian antipasto salad
- Thai chopped chicken salad
- Egg and avocado salad
- Curry Bacon Keto Coleslaw
- Avocado kale salad
- Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing
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Recipe
Simple Keto Cobb Salad (Without Dressing)
Ingredients
- 4 cups Romaine lettuce shredded
- ½ lb cooked chicken chopped or shredded (rotisserie chicken is good too)
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- 2 slices bacon crumbled
- ½ avocado sliced
- ⅔ cup cherry tomatoes cut in half
- ¼ cup Blue cheese crumbles
- 1 tablespoon green onion sliced
Instructions
- Split the lettuce between two bowls or plates.
- Arrange ¼ cup of cooked chicken down the center.
- Add a sliced hard boiled egg to each salad bowl.
- Add 1 slice of crumbled bacon to each salad, we used applewood smoked with no sugar added.
- Arrange the cherry or grape tomatoes and avocado slices.
- Top with blue cheese crumbles, garnish with green onion slices, chives, or fresh herbs.
- Add your dressing of choice like blue cheese, ranch dressing, or extra virgin olive oil and vinegar.
Cindi says
Do you have the Carb count for Cobb salad bowl?🥰
Donna says
The recipe isn’t specific enough for the amounts that I should use for each serving especially the dressing!
Donna