Name: Mark McEwan’s Lobster Cobb Salad
Ingredients: 1 slab (5oz/150g) top-quality bacon cut into 1/4" (5mm) pieces; 3 tbsp vegetable or olive oil; 3 tbsp garlic butter; 4 thin slices of baguette cut diagonally; 1 head Boston lettuce; 12 sweet cherry tomatoes, halved; ¼ red onion, sliced; 3 radishes, thinly sliced; 1 cup The Best Herb and Garlic Creamy Dressing (recipe below); 1 avocado, cubed; 2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered; 5 ounce Saint Agur or other top-quality blue cheese, crumbled; 2 live lobster, about 1 1/4 lb (625g), cooked and shelled, chilled, and cut into bite size pieces 1/4 bunch chives cut into 2" (5cm) lengths; 1 scallion, minced; 1 clove garlic, minced; 1 tbsp chives, finely chopped; 1 cup crème fraiche; 2 tbsp buttermilk; ½ tbsp cider vinegar; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; Salt and pepper

Mark McEwan's lobster cobb salad on a plate

Mark McEwan’s take on the Cobb Salad replaces chicken with cooked lobster.

ingredients

slab (5oz/150g) top-quality bacon cut into 1/4" (5mm) pieces

tbsp vegetable or olive oil

tbsp garlic butter

thin slices of baguette cut diagonally

head Boston lettuce

sweet cherry tomatoes, halved

red onion, sliced

radishes, thinly sliced

cup The Best Herb and Garlic Creamy Dressing (recipe below)

avocado, cubed

hard-boiled eggs, quartered

ounce Saint Agur or other top-quality blue cheese, crumbled

live lobster, about 1 1/4 lb (625g), cooked and shelled, chilled, and cut into bite size pieces 1/4 bunch chives cut into 2" (5cm) lengths

The Best Herb and Garlic Creamy Dressing

scallion, minced

clove garlic, minced

tbsp chives, finely chopped

cup crème fraiche

tbsp buttermilk

tbsp cider vinegar

tsp Dijon mustard

Salt and pepper

Ingredient Substitution Guide

directions

Step 1

Slowly cook the bacon in the oil, without allowing it to get excessively crisp. Set aside to drain on paper towels.

Step 2

Spread garlic butter on the baguette slices and in a separate pan, fry them gently until golden. Set aside on paper towels.

Step 3

Put 12 to 16 whole leaves of lettuce, the tomatoes, onion and radishes in a large bowl and toss with half the crème fraiche dressing.

Step 4

Place the largest four leaves of lettuce concave side up at the centre of four chilled plates. Follow with a judicious scattering of the dressed tomato, onion, and radish, along with avocado, egg segments, bacon, blue cheese, and lobster. Repeat the layers with lettuce leaves of diminishing size until each salad is three or four layers tall.

Step 5

Finish with an extra drizzle of dressing, the croutons, and the chives.

Step 6

Whisk all ingredients together. Taste, and adjust seasonings.

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