Grilled Greek Steak Cobb

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This Grilled Greek Steak Salad with Greek Goddess Dressing is full of delicious oregano, garlic, and rosemary flavors, delicious steak, and cool salad.  Perfect for summer!

I love salads.  I don’t think I could have said that when I was a kid unless it was packed with radishes, cucumbers, peppers, and lettuce.  Those are pretty much the only raw vegetables I loved as a kid.  At least that’s what I remember. 

But, we all know that my memory is crap.

Even today, I could eat a salad made of cucumbers, radishes, peppers, and lettuce.  But I also like carrots, onions, tomatoes, pears, apples, nuts, and cheeses.  I KNOW I wouldn’t have said that when I was a kid.  Especially blue, feta, or even goat cheese.  Heck, I don’t think I knew what goat cheese was when I was little.  Did you?

When the weather is warmer, we eat more salads because they’re easy.  Salads don’t require lots of time in the kitchen.  They are usually made with grilled meats like chicken, beef, or pork.  They’re super quick and oh so healthy.  And oh so tasty!!

I’ve made a ton of salads over the few years I’ve been blogging.  Steak salads, noodle salads, shrimp salads, scallop salads, the possibilities are endless!  Our favorites are usually grilled meat over crisp greens.  Especially a delicious, flavorful steak. 

Those salads are the best!!

What are some of the ingredients you put in your salad?  We LOVE grilled meats, obviously.  I like putting crunchy nuts like pecans, almonds, cashews in a salad.  They add great texture to a salad outside of the standard vegetable crunch.

I like to add a little sweetness from apples or pears.  Sometimes I add in dried fruits like cranberries, apricots, or even golden raisins are delicious.  Dried blueberries are good, too!  If you haven’t dried those, I highly recommend them.

Then there’s the cheese!! 

I used feta in this Grilled Greek Steak Cobb because it’s a Greek salad.  I love a me some goat cheese in a salad.  Or blue cheese!  Mmmmm.  A good blue cheese, some steak, and bites of pear are a delicious salad in my book.

Sadly, I usually only order those salads out a restaurant.  You see, I suck at assembling salads at home.  I mean, I tried with this Grilled Greek Steak Cobb, but it still doesn’t look that great.  I wonder if there’s a guide for how to photograph salads at home.  Suggestions?

This Grilled Greek Steak Cobb is a play on a typical cobb salad.  I’ve done a few of those.  I think my favorite was the Calypso Caribbean Cobb Salad because I loved the hearts of palm in that.  And that chicken was amazing with that sauce on top.  And the chunks of pineapple were pretty delicious, too!

Granted I didn’t spread this one out like a typical cobb is.  I just tossed it all together thinking it would look prettier.  Yeah, not so much.  I’ll keep trying, though.  Something’s gotta give and I figure out how to photograph pretty salads.  I failed at salads in school, too.  And soup.  Those just are not easy to photograph.

A traditional cobb salad has chopped greens, bacon, chicken breast, hard boiled eggs, avocado, chives, blue cheese, and vinaigrette.  This salad has greens, grilled steak, hard boiled eggs, black olives, tomatoes, roasted red peppers, cucumbers, and feta.  Doesn’t that just say Greek to you?  I skipped the pepperoncini.  I had heartburn that day, but please do add it if you’d like.

Confession.

I never made green goddess anything.  But, I was inspired by Palatable Pastimes recipes for our Green St. Patrick’s Day recipes that inspired me to look into making this popular and delicious dressing.  This is typically made with anchovies, garlic, mayo sour cream, parsley, tarragon, chives, and lemon juice.  I swapped out the parsley with the oregano and the tarragon with the rosemary and kept the chives.  I changed out the sour cream with Greek yogurt and voila!  Greek Green Goddess dressing is born.

It’s so worth it, too!  I put it all into my handy Tupperware mixer and had the most amazing dressing for the salad.  Then I used it for some left over grilled lamb we had.  I spread the dressing on the bread and sliced the lamb for an amazing sandwich.  Sometimes, I really love teleworking.  Heck, who am I fooling? 

I LOVE teleworking!

See what I mean?  You can’t see the onion or the olives.  There’s a hint of tomato and a fleck of roasted red pepper.  You can see the feta but not the cucumbers.  I really do suck at salads.  Sometime I need to work on.  And now that it’s summer, I see us having lots of salads again.

What’s your favorite dinner salad?  How do you dress it up?

   

Summer Dinner Salad Recipes

Brilliant Beef Salads

• Grilled Greek Steak Cobb with Greek Goddess Dressing by A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
• Grilled Keilbasa and Warm Mustard Viniagrette Salad by Our Good Life
• Southwestern Steak Salad by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks

Choice Chicken Salads

• BBQ Chicken Salad by Palatable Pastime
• Chicken Fried Picnic Salad by The Freshman Cook
• Chicken Salad with Orange and Fennel by A Day in the Life on the Farm

Superb Seafood Salads

• Beer Steamed Shrimp Salad by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Crab Salad with Chili, Tomato and Avocado by Monica’s Table
• Red Camargue and Wild Rice Salad with Tuna by Food Lust People Love

Vibrant Veggie Salads

• Kale Guacamole Salad by Pies and Plots