Lighter Cobb Salad

Name: Lighter Cobb Salad
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 4 large eggs; 3 slices bacon (3 ounces); 1 cup low-fat buttermilk; 1/4 cup light mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar; 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese (2 ounces); Coarse salt; 2 heads Boston lettuce (about 1 pound total), torn into bite-size pieces; 6 ounces deli turkey, diced; 4 plum tomatoes, halved, seeded, and diced; 1 avocado, halved lengthwise, pitted, peeled, and diced

December 22, 2011

WHY IT’S LIGHT How do you trim the fat and calories from a beloved salad? Scale back on the bacon, use only the whites of hard-cooked eggs, and make the dressing with low-fat buttermilk and light mayonnaise. Then, fold a modest amount of blue cheese into the dressing, instead of crumbling it over the salad.

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