May 9, 2019

Crab Louie Cobb Salad

My friend Susan and I discovered the Crab Louie salad while vacationing in Florida. The Crab Louie Cobb Salad is my twist on the traditional version of that salad…amped up a few notches. For me the key is to have big lumps of crabmeat throughout the salad so that you get a nice chunk of crab in each bite.

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I add sliced radishes, cherry tomatoes, and cucumbers; diced red pepper, avocado, red onion and swiss cheese; chopped hard boiled egg, and jumbo lumps of crab to the bibb lettuce. You can add, delete or modify any or all of the salad ingredients to your preferences. If you delete the crab though, it won’t be a Crab Louie Cobb anymore!

crab louie cobb salad with russian dressing

I organize the salad in the classical Cobb Salad presentation but you don’t have to.

The dressing completes the salad. I use a homemade creamy, tangy version of Thousand Island Dressing. See recipe below (underneath the Crab Louie Cobb Salad Recipe).

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Crab Louie Cobb Salad

Prep Time15

Total Time15

Course: dinner, Salad

Cuisine: American, Seafood Salad

Keyword: avocado, crab, gluten free, hard boiled egg, Salad, thousand island dressing

Servings: 4 people

Author: GFchow @ gfchow.com

Ingredients

1 1/2 Bags of Bibb lettuce romaine, iceberg and/or frisée can also be used
1 Cup Jumbo Lump Crabmeat
2 Radishes washed sliced or chopped
1/4 Red Pepper (green, yellow and/or orange) diced
1-2 Hard Boiled Eggs chopped
1 Avocado diced
Handful of Cherry Tomatoes halved
1/4-1/3 Cup Onion Red or White, chopped
2-4 slices Swiss Cheese (substitute your favorite cheese) sliced & cut into pieces
1 Cucumber sliced or chopped
Kosher Salt and Fresh Ground Pepper to taste
Serve with Thousand Island Dressing or with your favorite dressing

Instructions

Transfer the bag(s) of lettuce to a big bowl.
Add next 9 ingredients in a triangular pattern on top of the lettuce, as shown in photo above.
Serve with Thousand Island Dressing on the side.

Notes

Crumbled bacon would also be delicious in this salad.

For presentation purposes, I serve this salad with the dressing on the side.

You can add, delete or modify any of the ingredients mentioned in this salad. For example, if you like edamame, add them. If you don’t like onions omit them. If you’re not a swiss cheese person, substitute blue cheese (or your favorite cheese). You get the idea.

If you don’t have time to organize the salad as a Cobb, just layer the ingredients in as you would for a traditional salad. It will still be delicious.

Here’s the link for Hard Boiled eggs Perfectly Cooked Hard Boiled Eggs

Here’s the link for the Thousand Island Dressing Thousand Island Dressing

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Thousand Island Dressing

Prep Time5

Total Time5

Course: Salad Dressing

Cuisine: American

Keyword: ketchup, mayonnaise, relish, worcestershire

Author: GFchow @ gfchow.com

Ingredients

1/3 Cup Mayonnaise
1 1/2 Tbsp. Ketchup
1/2 Tsp. Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tsp. Relish

Instructions

Mix all ingredients together and serve.

Notes

Refrigerate any left over dressing in an airtight container.

Recipe developed by me.

If you like this recipe, you may also like these other GFchow recipes. Grilled Corned Beef Specials, Crab Cakes with Chili-Garlic Mayo, and Crab Pasta with Spicy Lemon Oil.

GLUTEN FREE DISCLAIMER

The recipes you find here are considered by me to be gluten free. However, it is up to you to make sure the ingredients you use are gluten free. Whenever possible, I will list specific brands of ingredients that I use, but always be sure to check the labels yourself to verify the item is gluten free.