Vegan Cobb Salad! Amp up your salad game with this rich and flavorful plant-based winner! A vegan twist on a classic dish is just what your taste buds ordered 😉
This healthy, oil-free Vegan Cobb Salad is a bursting with vibrant veggie rainbow goodness and drizzled with a irresistible creamy dressing. Tender boiled potatoes with a sprinkle of black salt makes for a delicious egg substitute. This big salad makes for a fresh and wholesome meal for lunch or dinner. The dressing alone will make your taste buds come alive with the first bite. You’ll be wondering where the salad has been all your life!
Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar, gluten free, and no highly processed ingredients.
Hi there, Ameera here!
I absolutely love how this salad is a cornucopia of fresh and vibrant veggies. All those beautiful colors just makes me want to dive in; plus, the dressing is to die for! This salad is one of those types of salads that is a meal in itself. It is hearty, filling, and super easy to make. Just some chopping, a little blending, and voilà, it’s complete!
Boiled Potatoes
Honestly, the tiny boiled potato cubes are divine in this salad! No seriously, they are sooooo good! Dad LOVED them. He said they reminded him of chopped eggs. In other kitchen tests, we didn’t sprinkle the black salt on them and he stilled loved the tiny boiled potatoes in the salad. He said they totally made it. It’s the little things, don’t ya know? LOL
Customizable Dressing
This recipe is very easily customized to suit your own tastes. Just remember when taste testing, dip a piece of lettuce into the salad dressing, shake it off before testing. This will give you an “idea” on how the dressing distributes with the refreshing veggies and will give you a more accurate taste of the dressing.
Sometimes when taste testing salad dressings, the dressing will taste amazing when making it, but after covering all the diversified salad ingredients, it tends to mellow out the dressing.
We suggest erring on the side of a punchy dressing to ensure the dressing flavor comes through once the salad is dressed. Plus, it’s very forgiving! You can increase or decrease the Dijon mustard, the maple syrup, or any seasonings accordingly.
Salad Ingredient Amounts
You can totally scale back on the salad ingredients if you don’t want to make a HUGE salad like we did. Additionally, leaving off certain ingredients (like red onions) is perfectly fine as well.
We devoured this “Big Salad” (Seinfeld reference)! LOL
If you try this delicious salad, we would love to know if you enjoy it as much as we do! Please leave us a review! Post a picture on Facebook or Instagram and tag us! We would love to hear from you.
Products Used:
- High-speed blender
- Stock pot to boil potatoes
Vegan Cobb Salad
- Prep Time: 25 Minutes
- Cook Time: 10 Minutes (Potatoes)
- Total Time: 35 Minutes
- Yield: 4 Servings 1x
- Category: Salads
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
This healthy, oil-free Vegan Cobb Salad is a bursting with vibrant veggie rainbow goodness and drizzled with a irresistible creamy dressing.
Ingredients
Salad Ingredients:
- 3 heads Romaine lettuce, chopped
- 1 cup corn
- 1 carrot, sliced into ribbons
- 1 – [ 15 oz. can ] kidney beans, drained and rinsed *
- 1 English cucumber, sliced
- ¼ cup red onions, thinly sliced
- 10 grape tomatoes, sliced
- 3 to 4 medium-sized Yukon Gold potatoes, cut into ½ inch cubes *
- Black salt (optional)
- 1 avocado, cut in chunks (optional)
Dressing Ingredients:
- ½ cup raw cashews *
- ¼ cup water
- 2 Tablespoons low-sodium vegetable broth *
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 to 3 teaspoons pure maple syrup (+/-)
- 1 Tablespoon white miso *
- 1 Tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard *
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 Tablespoon dried minced onions
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/8 teaspoon dried dill weed
- pinch to ¼ teaspoon + 1/8 teaspoon sea salt (+/-) *
- Pinch black pepper (+/-)
Instructions
- Place the raw cashews into a small bowl, cover with boiling water, allow to sit for 10 minutes, then drain and discard the water and place the softened cashews into a high-speed blender with all the remaining Dressing Ingredients. Blend on high until smooth and emulsified. Set aside until ready to dress the salad.
- Cube the potatoes and place into a small stock pot, cover with cold water, then bring to a gentle boil and sprinkle with some sea salt. Boil until fork tender about 7 to 11 minutes. Watch them carefully, do not overboil. Drain and the cooked potatoes run under cold water to cool down. Set aside until ready to make the salad.
- Salad Assembly: Place a bed of Romaine lettuce down, then add all the Salad Ingredients on top of the lettuce. See notes on adding black salt to the boiled potatoes.
- When ready to serve, drizzle the Salad Dressing over top, mix well, serve, and enjoy.
Notes
Tips for Success:
- Cooked Yukon Gold Potatoes: You can use any potatoes that you enjoy. We suggest using Yukon Gold because you typically don’t have to peel them and they are a creamy potato; however, again any boiled potato will work with this recipe. The cooked potatoes can be slightly warm (or cold) when added to the salad. Optional: In order to get an “eggy” taste, you can lightly sprinkle the cooked potatoes with black salt before adding to the salad. Remember a little sprinkle goes a long way when it comes to black salt. If unsure, try a little sprinkle on a potato before adding it to all of them. Note: If using another potato that is not thin-skinned like a Yukon Gold, then peel them.
- Boiling the Potatoes: Use a gentle boil and watch them closely. Boil just until tender, then remove from the stove and rinse them with cold water to cool them down. Do not overboil the potato cubes or they will disintegrate into your salad which will not be pleasant.
- Salad Dressing: This recipe is very easily customized to suit your own tastes. Just remember when taste testing, dip a piece of lettuce into the salad dressing, shake it off before testing. This will give you an “idea” on how it will taste. Sometimes when taste testing salad dressings, the dressing will taste amazing when making it, but after covering all the diversified salad ingredients, it tends to mellow out the dressing. We suggest erring on the side of a punchy dressing to ensure the dressing flavor comes through once the salad is dressed.
- Beans: You can use your favorite bean in this salad.
- Salad Dressing: Cashew-based dressings tend to get thick when refrigerated. You can easily thin it out by adding a little vegetable broth, water or red wine vinegar.
*Notes Continued:
*Cashews: If you are allergic to cashews, you can try sunflower seeds, white beans, or silken tofu. We have not kitchen tested these substitutions, but they typically work as substitutes with the understanding that the flavor and texture will change accordingly.
*Vegetable Stock: We use Pacific Organic Low Sodium Vegetable Stock. We love this brand because it is Whole Food Plant Based compliant, as it does not contain MSG, has no oil, and does not contain any highly-processed ingredients.
*Miso: We used Miso Master Organic Mellow White Premium Lite Miso, Certified Gluten Free. Miso really lends itself to balancing flavors when you don’t use oil. You can also use chickpea miso for a soy free version.
*Dijon Mustard: We used Koops Dijon Mustard. Please feel free to use your favorite Dijon mustard.
*Sea Salt: Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.
*Makes: 4 servings (Dressing makes 1 cup – you may or may not have dressing left over.)
*Storage: Refrigerate, use within 5 days. If salad is dressed, use with 24 hours
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Oh my gosh . . . this is SO good!! I will make this again & again 😉 Thank you!!
Hi there Jane 🙂
Yaaaay!!! We are so glad to hear that you enjoyed this recipe and that you plan to make it again. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful feedback with us!
-Ameera and Robin 🙂
This is one of your best salads. So good!
Hi there Tracy,
YAYYY!! We are thrilled that you enjoy this salad. We love it too! Thank you for taking time to leave us an awesome review.
-Ameera and Robin
I have to say that this dressing is absolutely delicious! I have tried so many dressing recipes, only to be disappointed. Many wasted ingredients and too much vinegar in previous tried recipes. However, this recipe balanced the red wine vinegar really well. I will be making this dressing again many more times. For the salad, I did not have the exact ingredients, but it was still so, so good. Next time I’ll make sure to have the potatoes!
Hi there Barbara,
YAYYYY!!! We are thrilled that you gave this recipe a try and enjoyed it. Thank you so much for taking time to leave us a great review.
-Ameera and Robin