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- Hey everybody, it's Natasha of Natashaskitchen.com
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and today I wanna show you how to make
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your new favorite salad.
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We're making a chicken Cobb salad,
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it is loaded with all of the best ingredients
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and you're gonna love this dressing, so let's get started.
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- [Natasha Voiceover] The only cooking we need to do
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in this recipe is the bacon,
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so place a medium pan over medium heat
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and add six ounces of chopped bacon,
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saute that until it's golden brown and crisp.
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And I love using the splatter guard to keep my stove
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and my clothes clean,
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I'll link to the one I have in the notes.
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Once your bacon is crispy, transfer that to a separate plate
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and set it aside to cool.
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You'll need one medium head of romaine lettuce
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or about five to six cups chopped.
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Once it's all chopped up, I love to put in a salad spinner
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to wash it, then spin it dry.
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(pops)
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(chuckles)
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Salad spinners are brilliant for green salads,
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they save so much time
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and you'll never have another wet salad again.
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We've had a couple of salad spinners
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that have broken on us in the past,
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but this is the best one I've tried,
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and I will definitely leave a link to it
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in the recipe notes.
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Spread your prepared lettuce over a large serving platter,
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this is gonna form the base of the salad.
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Now you'll need two large chicken breasts
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from a rotisserie chicken,
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and if you saw our most recent video,
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we shared how to cook a whole chicken in the Instant Pot,
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and it really is just the juiciest and quickest way
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to cook a whole chicken.
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And if you're in a hurry and wanna save even more time,
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you can use a store-bought rotisserie chicken
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for this recipe.
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Slice the chicken breast into bite-size strips,
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then layer it over your romaine lettuce.
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Next, you'll need two large hard-boiled eggs
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and make sure you check out our tutorial
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on how to boil eggs perfectly every time, it is so easy.
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I'll leave a link to that in the notes.
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Cut your eggs into fourths and layer them onto your platter.
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Next, thinly slice one half cup of red onion
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and I love using red onion because it's mild and flavor
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and adds beautiful color to the salad.
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Next, we'll need one cup of cherry tomatoes
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and cut each of those in half,
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it's easiest to do this with a serrated knife.
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You can chop up heirloom tomatoes, when they're in season,
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but I found that cherry tomatoes taste great all year long.
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Next, we're gonna cut my personal favorite ingredient,
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well, next to the bacon, of course, (chuckles)
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one large avocado.
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Remove the pit and peel the avocado,
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then slice into bite-size pieces.
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When you slice, try to keep them in the rows
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for a prettier presentation
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when you transfer them to the salad.
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Add your rows of avocados to the salad platter.
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Next, layer on the rest of the ingredients
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that you've prepared,
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and for a Cobb salad you can arrange things in strips
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or in little bunches like I am here.
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All right, we have the tomatoes and the purple onions on.
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Next, layer on your cooked crumbled bacon.
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And last but not least, add one half cup
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of crumbled blue cheese.
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I'm using a Gorgonzola blue cheese
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and if you prefer not to use blue cheese,
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a feta cheese would work here as well.
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And we're gonna finish this off
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with a little sprinkle of fresh parsley.
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- Oh, that is just the prettiest salad
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and it's totally making my mouth water.
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But before we can enjoy that,
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we're gonna make the most amazing balsamic vinaigrette
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and all you need is a little mason jar.
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- [Natasha Voiceover] Add one third cup olive oil.
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- And I'm using extra virgin,
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because that gives this extra flavor, get it?
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Extra, extra, okay (giggles).
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Balsamic vinegar, three tablespoons of that,
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and then we have our Dijon mustard.
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Just one tablespoon goes a long way.
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Press in one fresh garlic clove
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and this adds fantastic flavor, so do not skip it.
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(grunts)
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This is my favorite garlic press right here,
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I'll link to it in the notes.
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Every bit of garlic, love garlic.
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And salt and pepper, just a quarter of teaspoon of salt
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and a pinch of black pepper.
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Put the lid on and shake, shake, shake,
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until it's creamy smooth
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(dressing burbles)
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That looks perfect.
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Beautiful, you just want to shake it enough,
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so that the mustard incorporates really well
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into the dressing, yum-yum.
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Okay, and then just drizzle it over the salad
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right before serving.
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That's exactly what we're gonna do.
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Yum, and add the dressing to taste,
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you don't have to use all of it.
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All right, and I am ridiculously excited
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for this taste test (chuckles).
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Can you see why?
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So, that's exactly what we're gonna do right now.
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Here we go, a little bit of everything.
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And of course, a lot of avocado (giggles).
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And I personally like a lot of dressing on my salad,
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so I'm gonna add just a little drizzle more.
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(giggles)
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Okay, here I go, get a little bit of everything,
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which is hard 'cause there's a lot of stuff in here.
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Okay, that looks reasonable (giggles), it's a big bite.
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And a little bit of everything else.
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I'm telling you, this dressing, it's amazing,
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make it once and you will not want store-bought again.
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This just pulls the whole salad together,
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you've got protein from the eggs
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and the chicken and the bacon,
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is bacon a protein?
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I think so (laughs).
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And the cheese, of course, there's cheese,
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and then you've got the fresh elements:
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juicy tomatoes and then the purple onion
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which I really like in here, it adds a lot of freshness.
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And the cheese, if you're not a big fan of blue cheese,
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you can totally use feta here
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and it'll still taste really good.
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This is perfect for meal planning,
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this keeps really well in the refrigerator,
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and then you can just add the dressing as you go.
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This is so satisfying.
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It is a meal in itself, so beautiful for parties,
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and I hope it becomes a new favorite for you.
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If you guys love this, you have to try
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some of our most viral salads right over there
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