Traditional Cobb salad toppings with one exception…we’ve removed the chicken and added glorious grilled salmon! Top it with an amazing honey mustard dressing.

A week ago we had a Paaaaar-Tay! A little gathering, I like to call, a… “Salmonque!” (I’m making up words again! Ahhh, the joys of literary bloggers license. Lol)

My friends had three huge salmon fillets, so they made me an offer. They’d provide the salmon if I cooked it? (Hmmmmmm… let me take an entire second to think about that!) Heck Yeah!!! Hence, the “Salmonque” was born!

Needless to say, we had leftover Salmon, and I could bare for it to go to waste. Thus, the Salmon Cobb Salad was born! Let’s get cooking!

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How To Make Salmon Cobb Salad

First I want to share how I grill salmon. It’s a quick and really easy way to produce amazing salmon.

When it comes to grilling salmon, we allow the salmon to be… Salmon! We don’t marinade it or try to turn it into teriyaki chicken. We let the natural color and flavor be the star of the show! It’s a personal preference, but it’s how I think it should be. It’s really superb too!

Huge Salmon Fillet on cutting board for Grilled Salmon.

Start by removing all the skin. Brush it with melted butter, and sprinkle it with some seasoning salt! That’s it!

What you get is…perfect, mouth-watering, scrumptious salmon! Serve with a little lemon and you are good to go! Isn’t that amazing?! YUM!!!

TIP: The salmon can also be cooked in a skillet on your stovetop if you don’t have BBQ.

Salmon searing in the skillet on top of the stove

What to do with leftover Salmon

I don’t know about you, but….I’m not going to waste any of that salmon, like I said before!

Summer and Salads…lifelong friends! So when you have leftover cooked salmon you toss it into your favorite Cobb salad.

I absolutely adore Cobb Salad! I have for as long as I can remember! Thankfully, my family loves it too and they love salmon! It was the perfect combination. Does that look good enough to eat or what?

Cobb Salmon Salad with rows of grilled salmon, bacon bits, diced hard boiled eggs, sliced avocado, and diced tomatoes on a bed of leafy greens.

Traditional Cobb Salad vs. Salmon Cobb Salad

Traditional Cobb Salad is generally made with chicken, blue cheese, tomatoes, avocado, diced hard-boiled eggs, bacon, and black olives. All lined up in nice neat rows (my O.C.D. comes out to visit when making this dish!) on a bed of lettuce greens.

All I did was switch out the chicken and replace it with the salmon, and the same for the blue cheese with Feta. Generally, I fry up bacon, but it’s summer and hot, so I used “Real” bacon bits, found in the salad aisle, instead of cooking up a package of bacon.

Recipe Wrap-up

This salad is so perfect for dinner! It’s filling, flavorful, and stunningly beautiful! I love to serve this luscious salad to friends when I have lunch! You just can’t go wrong with all the varied ingredients. The cold salmon was an awesome addition! We serve ours with Ranch but… you could do Blue Cheese, French, or a beautiful honey mustard vinaigrette…any dressing of your choice.

Two Salmon Cobb Salads on a table ready to eat.

Serve this salad with some hearty crusty sour dough bread and a tall glass of my favorite triple berry lemonade, and you have the perfect summer meal!

It’s also the perfect time to serve this amazingly delicious cold summer salad!

Other Amazing Summer Salad Recipes

Whatever you do this weekend, I hope it’s fantastic! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Plate filled with rows of delicious cobb salad toppings including delicious salmon

Salmon Cobb Salad

A traditional Cobb Salad with Salmon and Feta Cheese. Fresh, flavorful, and the perfect summertime meal!

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 10

Total Time 30

Servings servings

Calories 1305 kcal

Ingredients

1 head of romaine lettuce washed, dried and torn into bite size pieces
2 Roma tomatoes seeded and diced
1 large Haas Avocado seeded, peeled and diced
1/2 cup slice olives
3/4 cup Feta Cheese or Blue Cheese crumbles
2-3 hard boiled eggs peeled, and diced
1/2 cup bacon pieces
1 1/2 cups Salmon pieces can use diced chicken instead
Ranch Dressing

Instructions

In a salad bowl lay down a bed of lettuce greens.
Starting in the middle, use your salmon to make one neat middle row. Working out towards the edge of the bowl make rows of egg on one side of the salmon and bacon on the other side.
Next to the egg add the diced avocado then olives. On the opposite side next to the bacon do the Feta cheese then the tomatoes.
Serve with Ranch Dressing or any dressing of choice.

Nutrition

Serving: 3cupsCalories: 1305kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 94gFat: 92gSaturated Fat: 29gPolyunsaturated Fat: 56gCholesterol: 548mgSodium: 2277mgFiber: 13gSugar: 9g

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Hi! I'm Norine, the cook, baker, and recipe creator behind Norine's Nest. I love sharing and creating recipes that invite family, friends, and neighbors to gather around the dinner table. Sharing good food and creating memories with those we love brings me happiness. Thanks for stopping by my Nest!