Cobb Salad Recipe
I love to eat salad, but this is something I didn’t discover I loved until I was in my late 20’s. While I was working in a Mexican restaurant, we served several amazing salads.
One of my all time favorite salads was their Spicy Shrimp Fajita salad. I loved the mixture of the spicy shrimp with the cool greens. With some experimentation, I came up with my Spicy Shrimp Cobb Salad Recipe.
To go along with my love of Mexican inspired foods is my favorite homemade salad dressing. My daughter and I made a Creamy Avocado Vinaigrette. It goes perfectly with my Spicy Shrimp Cobb Salad Recipe!
I love this Avocado Vinaigrette because it has a little kick, is creamy and has that yummy avocado flavor. Oh, and it is easy to make! You just toss a few ingredients into your food processor and you are ready to dress that salad!
If you think about it, a Cobb Salad Recipe is almost the perfect meal! It is packed full of veggies and protein, is crunchy and has layers of flavor.
I love the bite of the feta cheese, the crunch of the bacon and the smooth avocados and hard boiled eggs. If you want a refreshing drink that goes perfectly with this Spicy Shrimp Cobb Salad Recipe, try my Lemon Lime Mojitos!
Ingredients
- Shrimp:
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon chili flakes
- Pinch of cayenne pepper
- Salad:
- Cooking spray
- 1 Lb. shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 3 cups romaine lettuce coarsely chopped
- 3 cups iceberg lettuce coarsely chopped
- 2 cups grape tomatoes, sliced in half
- 1/2 avocado, diced
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Avocado Vinaigrette:
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Shrimp:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees: Toss shrimp in olive oil, Cajun seasoning, lemon juice, soy sauce, chili flakes and cayenne pepper. Bake in oven for 5-6 minutes. Set aside
- Avocado Vinaigrette:
- Put all ingredients into food processor until well blended. Easy peasy!!
- Assemble Salad:
- Line a large plate or platter with lettuce. Starting from the left side, make a row of tomatoes, feta cheese, bacon, shrimp, avocado, eggs

Spicy Shrimp Cobb Salad Recipe & Avocado Vinaigrette Recipe
What are your favorite cobb salad recipe toppings?
bacon and egg whites!
My favorite Cobb Salad toppings are the bleu cheese, bacon and avocado.
With shrimp as the meat I can understand using feta, but when you have chicken on there it has to be roquefort which isn’t just my favorite cobb salad ingredient, it’s my favorite cheese!
My favorite Cobb salad items are hard boiled eggs and Feta cheese!
My favorite is bacon, onions and fresh mozzarella.
dried fruits are something I LOVE adding!
I like bacon, hard boiled eggs and cheddar cheese.
My favorite toppings include the not so healthy choices like bacon and cheese.
I like bacon, egg, tomato and turkey
Hard boiled eggs and crispy bacon.
Bacon and boiled egg! yummmmy. I’ll have to try it with shrimp, looks delicious!
Hard boiled egg, chicken and cheddar cheese.
I love to add sunflower seeds and use ranch instead of blue cheese
I love bacon!
I love bacon, cheese, and avocado on my Cobb salad.
I like black beans as my Cobb salad topping.
I like eggs, avocado,olives and bacon. Thank you for the chance.
I love bacon and avocado on my Cobb salad. Sometimes I add crumbled blue cheese too.
I love chunked chicken and lots of shredded cheese
My favorite Cob Salad toppings are Garbanzo beans and crushed roasted Flax Seeds. The roasted Flax Seeds have a nice toasty flavor.
Eggs are my favorite item in a Cobb Salad.
avocado and eggs are my favorite part of a cobb salad
I like bacon, cheese and onion on mine.
Avocados, bacon, and ranch dressing.
Asiago cheese
I like avocados and eggs on my cobb salad.
I like almost all toppings — for a cobb salad my favorite toppings would be grape tomatoes, egg, cheese, cucumber.
onion,avocado,cucumber,carrots
I don’t care for traditional cobb salad because I don’t like eggs,but, I love the bacon & avocado!
We love adding pecans on top!
I have to have bacon, egg, cheese, and ranch
my favorite cobb salad toppings are crispy bacon and hard boiled eggs
My favorite toppings are avocado and smoked salmon
There was an error on my response so I’m going to send it again.
My favorite topping is turkey.
Eggs & Turkey bacon
Salad sounds great but for me it needs Ranch – Then it’s really something
Bacon and hard boiled eggs!!!
Actually your recipe above covers a lot of the basic in what I consider must haves in a Cobb Salad ~ EXCEPT that I prefer to use either Gorgonzola or any other Blue Cheese instead pf the Feta (But I do LOVE FETA in almost everything else!) I’ve also never tried it with a dressing anything thing remotely resembling your dressing (which does sound yummy and I definitely will be trying…
But for Cobb Salads I generally a kind of cross between a Greek and an Italian Vinaigrette!
favorite topping avocado bacon and egg whites
I love crumbled bacon.
I like bacon and cheese on my cobb salad.
I love bacon and a sweet dressing
Avacado and feta cheese! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
For Cobb, I love ham, eggs, cheese, shrimp, onions and olives. Topped with ranch.
BACON, ONION , EGGSAND TOMATOESON MYINE
bacon and eggs
I love cheese, eggs, and cucumbers on my salad. Thank you!
I love hard boiled eggs and bacon! Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Croutons, bacon bits and celery seed.
Bacon, Sunflower seeds and Croutons
bacon and egg whites!
eggs and bacon
eggs and bacon for me too! I actually had a cobb salad today
I like ham and boiled eggs
I love Feta Cheese and Egg as toppings
Got to have eggs and bacon!
bacon ,cheese and eggs
Avocado is m favorite topping!
Crumbled blue cheese and bacon
I really like Bacon, Eggs and Cheese on my salad.
cheese,bacon,eggs, and boiled eggs are real good !
avocado…without a doubt….
Thank You for the giveaway… love diced hard boiled eggs, & diced peppers !
Cheese bacon ham and cheese – YUM!!
Bacon and avocado and egg
We definitely like to crumble some bacon and add extra cheese and tomatoes and black olives.
Bacon, eggs, and blue cheese crumbles.
That looks absolutely delicious. I love fresh bacon pieces, fresh croutons and red onion!
My favorite Cobb salad toppings are hard boiled eggs and bacon.
I like Roquefort cheese on mine. Sooo good!
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