Cobb salad with blue cheese ranch dressing

Serves: 4
Course: Salads
Cooking Time: 0 hr 1 mins
Ingredients
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COBB SALAD

Ingredients

100g cooked ham or bacon, roughly chopped
2 cooked chicken breasts, sliced
6 hardboiled eggs, quartered
1 large carrot, grated
3 celery sticks, cut into chunks
Quarter of a red cabbage, thinly sliced
6 radishes, quartered

For the blue cheese ranch dressing
100g buttermilk
30g apple cider vinegar
10g Dijon mustard
120g blue cheese (we use Young Buck)
30g mayonnaise
1 clove garlic, minced
Handful of flat leaf parsley, finely chopped
Salt and black pepper

Method
Start by making the dressing. Using a large mixing bowl or processor, add the buttermilk, vinegar and Dijon mustard and mix.

Crumble in the blue cheese, you can have it as chunky as you like.

Add the mayo, garlic and parsley. Season to taste. If the dressing seems too thick, add a bit more buttermilk. Set aside. This will keep for up to a week in the fridge.

Arrange the ingredients into sections on a large serving dish or platter. When ready to serve, pour the blue cheese dressing generously all over the salad, or let your guests serve themselves.

Jess Murphy

Jess Murphy

Jess Murphy, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a Kiwi chef living on the west coast of Ireland