Super Simple and SEASONAL Paleo Cobb Salad! Take advantage of seasonal produce and make this healthy Paleo Cobb Salad that’s fit for a king! It’s packed with, flavor, protein, healthy fats, and LOADS of seasonal fruits and veggies! You’ll love how easy and delicious is to make for one or for the whole family. Option to make vegan friendly as well.
Winter’s Bounty Cobb Salad
I might have gone a bit overboard with stuffing this salad to the brim, but hey, this is my WINTER’S BOUNTY Cobb Salad.
Benefits of Eating Seasonally
Well, for one, when you eat foods that are in season, you are retaining more nutrients. Seasonally fresh fruits/vegetables are picked when the produce is perfectly ripe and developed. This means that the “seasonal” plant has had more sun exposure and a higher content of antioxidants. Yea!
And two, it’s SAVES YOU MONEY! It’s much cheaper for the farmers to produce and therefore cheaper for you! Cash in on the seasonal bounty –> Um, yes, let’s eat well and save money post Holidays. We like that!
Also, feel free to leave out the meats and egg to make it vegan friendly. It’s all delicious and nutritious!
Winter Cobb Salad Ingredients:
- Celery
- Cauliflower (I used crumbled so it looks like cheese, sneaky sneaky)
- Roasted Ham or Turkey (So you can use up any leftover turkey or ham from Holidays)
- Sweet Potato Wedges
- Sage
- Kale, Swiss Chard, and Spinach (it’s hidden underneath, I promise!)
- Cranberries (which I coated in a little coconut oil for healthy fats)
- Yellow or White Grapefruit (which is why it looks yellow, not orange). They have a great sweet/tart balance!
- Avocado
- Egg Also, feel free to leave out the meats and egg to make it vegan friendly. It’s all delicious and nutritious!
Feel free to leave out the meats and egg to make it vegan friendly. It’s all delicious and nutritious!
About the dressing: I was spoiled by my mom at Christmas and received a local Pear Balsamic Vinegar. I paired it with avocado oil on this salad. It was divine! That being said, I think a creamy avocado or homemade buttermilk dressing would also be lovely. I’ll leave that up to you!
So you see, winter isn’t all that bad, right? And switching up your eating routine for seasonal produce can do wonders! Well, at least that’s what I’m telling myself.
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Winter’s Bounty Paleo Cobb Salad
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2-3 1x
Description
Winter’s Bounty Paleo Cobb Salad! Take advantage of seasonal produce and make this healthy Paleo Cobb Salad ! It’s packed with, flavor, protein, healthy fats, and LOADS of seasonal fruits and veggies! You’ll love how easy and delicious is to make for one or for the whole family.
Ingredients
- 3 ½ cups loose winter greens (Kale, Spinach, Swiss Chard, etc)
- ⅓ cup chopped celery
- ⅓ cup chopped cauliflower
- ⅓ of an avocado (sliced)
- ½ of a small white grapefruit (slices)
- ¼ cup fresh cranberries
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil, melted
- 4 sliced wedges of cooked sweet potato (⅓ to ½ small sweet potato)
- ⅛ cup or 1oz slivered almonds
- 1 hard boiled egg cut in half
- 1 oz cooked roasted ham, turkey, or chicken
- 1–2 sage leaves (optional)
- Black pepper
- Sea salt
- Oil/vinegar or paleo dressing of choice
- (see notes if you want to make this vegan)
Instructions
- Wash fruit and vegetables. If you haven’t already, cooked your egg (if you are using) and sweet potato, do so beforehand or use leftovers. You can steam a sweet potato in microwave in 3-4 minutes. Make sure to pierce with fork first.
- Dry and slice/chop vegetables into ¼ cup to ⅓ cup servings.
- Toss cranberries in 1 teaspoon coconut oil and set aside.
- In a large salad bowl or small serving bowl, arrange your greens. Then top with vegetables, avocado, and fruit. Leave the meat, egg, sage, and almonds for last.
- Add cracked pepper and sea salt on top to taste.
- Drizzle with olive oil and vinegar or a creamy avocado dressing of your choice.
- This works great as a large salad for one EXTREMELY hungry person or 2 smaller salads. Makes 3 if you are wanting to use as a side dish.
Notes
This works great as a large salad for one hungry person or 2 smaller salads. Makes 3 if you are wanting to use as a side dish.
If you are wanting to make this vegan, simply replace the egg and meat with tofu and/or tempeh. It’s delicious!
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
This look so healthy and nourishing! My favorite winter food is delicata or butternut squash 🙂
I adore this: the colors, the ingredients, the health benefits, the seasonality of it all. I wish I could face plant it right now, although I would totally sneak in some cheese alongside the cauliflower (tricky, tricky).
This is fabulous.
i kinda did face plant it. 😉
Yum! Love all the colours!!!
Oh my gosh! I want this salad SO BAD! I really want to crunch that celery, it looks perfect. And who ever puts celery in a Cobb salad? Perfection, the whole thing.
haha well I love celery, and it’s seasonal, so the more the merrier, right?
Oh my goodness I am absolutely in love with your photography! These are amazing photos, all the colors and the lighting is perfect. (Not to mention the salad looks scrumptious)! Thanks for sharing!
thanks Sarah! I’m quite fond the the colors too! 😉
That looks frigging amazing Lindsay!! We get a lot of stuff here year round. I try to eat whatever is there that I like! 🙂
yes, so lucky! love that. eat it all for me!
I see this in our future next week! I love the grapefruit add. They are so sweet right now! Vegas has some in her vodka. Because we’re on a diet… LOL!
I”ll raise my glass to that
We’re having this tonight!!! 🙂 Favorite produce… Cranberries!
woohoo, keep me posted! Hugs!
This looks SO good 🙂
thanks friend. I think you’d love!
This is my kind of salad – I bet shrimp would be amazing with that grapefruit as well! Loving how colorful this is as well, who said salad had to be boring!!
oh good call! i love shrimp!
This is so colorful–I love it!
i was kinda mesmerized by the colors myself. LOL!
YUM! this looks divine!! I must make! I love the avocado oil idea. I just picked some up and it’s tasty!
This is the most beautiful salad. Just look at all the colorssss. Happy Friday friend!
we survived the first week of 2016!!! haha
I wouldn’t even be able to eat this salad because it is so damn beautiful! 🙂 but for real, crumbled cauliflower is genius. I like to chop up broccoli like confetti, but I have never thought about that with cauliflower!
This salad! I am such a fan of giant salads filled ALL the good things. This is so creative and I must try it. I love the ingredient combos here!
I fell in love with the cobb salad this summer so this sounds right up my alley! I love the addition of sweet potato too! yum!
Those colours!!! I want to plant my face in that beautiful bowl.
My fav winter produce is probably any winter squash.
i so did that! and it was glorious!
I think you might have just created my perfect dish.
Seriously.
Wow. There aren’t words. Other than Give to me every day for the rest of my life. Pinning and yumming and all the things.
I’ve never seen so many colors all put into one meal I am just dying over this salad right now! Like is there anything that can’t go in a salad?! I’ll just be here admiring and continually drooling over this beautifulness through my computer 🙂
Oh my gosh…I’m drooling (and smiling) over your gorgeous salad. All of those colors!
I’m on a definite salad kick at the moment (could it be all of those Xmas cookies?!), so this is calling my name. And I need to get some avocado oil…I haven’t added it to my pantry yet, but I think it’s time!
Have a great weekend, friend!
Praise the avocado oil! It’s almost all I use now. And praise this amazing salad too. I have somewhat of a routine now but I’m still trying to figure everything out after all the changes.
amen to that! loooooooove the oil! and keep me posted on you and your healing/diet/etc
That salad dressing sounds amazing! I miss avocado oil it’s been too long! I crave salad all winter long and this looks just perfect.