Panera Bread Green Goddess Cobb Salad is a salad that so many people love. This salad is perfect for low carb and keto diets (just eliminate the pickled onions). Best of all the Panera Bread Green Goddess Cobb Salad doesn’t taste like you are on a diet.
Fans of salads love Panera Bread. All of their ingredients are fresh like crisp greens and vine-ripened tomatoes. Panera creates flavorful salad combinations that are not only unique but also delicious. And, all of Panera’s salad ingredients have no artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, or sweeteners.
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Panera’s Green Goddess Salad
At Panera, the Green Goddess Salad has seen many variations as each chef has added his or her own special touch to the original. If you go to Panera, your Green Goddess Cobb Salad will have a base of fresh mixed greens and tomato wedges. Some thin slices of pickled red onions add some sweet tanginess.
Then everything is tossed together with chopped bacon, avocado, and a hard-boiled egg. And then, of course, the famous Green Goddess dressing, which is made fresh every day. You can choose to add chicken raised without antibiotics.
About Panera Bread
Panera began life as a cookie store thirty-five years ago. Today it’s a well-known chain with over 2,000 bakery-cafes. Panera realized that many people wanted something more than just processed fast food. When going out to eat, they were not only hungry they were hungry for real food served in an engaging environment.
Panera is not in the business of serving you and then getting you out the door as quickly as possible – they want you to linger and enjoy the Panera experience. Read more about the history and evolution of Panera Bread.
How to make this recipe low carb?
There is one step in making this recipe low carb, remove the pickled onions. If you simply omit the pickled onions you remove all but 5 carbs in this recipe.
The Goddess of Dressings
You may not know that a salad dressing could have a history, but the Green Goddess salad dressing draws on a rich tradition that goes back four hundred years. The basics of the Green Goddess dressing reach back to the 17th Century when the personal chef to the French king Louis XIII created the first Green Goddess dressing.
Green Goddess the Movie
In 1923 Philip Roemer, the chef at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco wished to pay homage to actor George Arliss, the star of the silent movie Green Goddess. Roemer made a Green Goddess dressing, achieving its colorful hue with a tasty combination of parsley, chives, tarragon, and scallions. To read more about the history of the Green Goddess dressing, click here.
Make Panera Green Goddess Salad at Home
You don’t have to go to Panera to enjoy this beautiful salad. You can make it at home from the same fresh ingredients that Panera uses. So sit down and enjoy your Green Goddess salad and share its long and storied history with your family. Your taste buds will tell you that it’s worth it.
Check out this recipe for parmesan chicken wings for a tasty appetizer to enjoy before the salad.
Can’t Get Enough of Panera Bread? Here are more great Panera Bread Copycat recipes for you to try
- Mediterranean Grain Bowl
- Panera Bread Panini
- Copycat Tomato Basil Soup
- Fall Squash Soup
- Broccoli Cheddar Soup Panera Bread Recipe
- Panera Bread Macaroni and Cheese
- Panera Bread Muffins
- Panera Bread Spreads – Honey Walnut Cream Cheese
More Dinner Salad Recipes
Be sure to check out more of my copycat Panera recipes and the best homemade salads.
Panera Bread Green Goddess Cobb Salad
Ingredients
Pickled Onions
- 1 cup sliced red onion
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup warm water
Salad Assembly
- 6` ounces salad blend use arugula, romaine, kale, and raicchio blend
- 6 ounces grilled chicken breast
- 2 tablespoons crisply cooked bacon
- 3 tablespoons chopped avocado
- 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes
- 1 hard boiled egg cut in half
- 2 tablespoons feta cheese
- 2 tablespoons pickled onions
Green Goddess Salad Dressing
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons tarragon leaves
- 3 tablespoons minced chives
- 1 cup flat leaf parsley
- 1 cup packed watercress cleaned and tough stems removed
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon champagne vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
Pickled Onions
- Slice onions as thin as possible, I like to use the 1/8 inch setting on my mandolin. Place the onions in a glass far. In a small bowl combine white vinegar, sugar, salt, and warm water. Stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved. These should rest about 30 minutes for using.
Green Goddess Salad Dressing
- Place all of the dressing ingredients in the bowl of a blender or food processor and blend for about 30-45 seconds, or until the salad dressing is mostly smooth and creamy.
Salad Assembly
- Place the salad in the bottom of a large salad bowl. Thinly slice the chicken breast, and place onto the lettuce. Add bacon, chopped avocado, chopped tomatoes, feta cheese, hard-boiled egg halves, and pickled onions. Drizzle over as much salad dressing as desired. Remaining salad dressing can be stored in an air-tight container for 1 week.
Chris David
Really delicious recipe
Sharon
I have ordered this salad twice from Panera and it did not have bacon or feta. Maybe if those two were left out it would more lower calories
Stephanie Manley
It leaving ingredients out would lower calories!
Candace Trass Crute
Always in mine. Maybe it’s chef’s choice.
Maddie
So the full size Green Goddess salad at Panera is 600 calories. Is this just double the portion size or what?
Stephanie
I don’t know how many ounces of chicken you get with the salad in the store, the calories are for the recipe and the serving size as listed.
Kim
I see that the green goddess dressing calls for tarragon leaves, flat leaf parsley and water cress. I’m assuming all of these are fresh? I couldn’t find these at Walmart. I live in a rural area. Do you think they would carry them at Publix? If so, would they be on the lettuce aisle? Thanks in advance!
Stephanie
Please use fresh herbs. You should find them near the lettuce. Most stores carry the flat-leaf parsley, the watercress and tarragon can be harder to find, Publix should have them.
Karen
Am I reading this correctly? 3000 mg of sodium? And so many calories ! Yikes. I knew it tasted too good to be true
Special K
https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/articles/green-goddess-dressing-recipe.html
Rebecca Curtis-Brown
Is that calorie count per serving?
How many servings in the recipe?
Stephanie
The recipe makes 2 servings, the calories are 1175 per serving.
mimi
I read all the nutrition information. I have had a heart attack and am diabetic. I never use sugar – only stevia. 1500 mg of sodium a day. I take prescription potassium, heart meds, blood pressure pills, metformin. I am 73 years old.
Joan
Curious for nutrition on dressing only for green goddess.
Ahmed
Looks so healthy and yummy!
MarkD
We made this twice in the last week. Love this.
Mr Fish
Good effort, good result, good job!
One suggestion, When your computer nerds format recipes for print, It should be done with the idea of printing on one page only. In other words, the print version doesn’t need to have Course, cuisine, keywords or Nutrition facts information. If I was going to create a handwritten version of your recipe I certainly would not include any of that nonsense, now would I?
Stephanie
Thank you, I will be sure to work with the developer on this. You bring up a great point. We are working on this, most recipes print on one page, but there is variability in the length of each recipe. I appreciate your feedback.
Thanks,
Stephanie
S Smith
Mr Fish, You may find it all nonsense, but not everyone does. I actually include the nutritional values when I write down a recipe and am sure others do if they have family members with health conditions. If you have family with different conditions and different needs that you cook for, then you would likely not find it ‘nonsense”. For example one member of my family has had a heart attack so has salt and cholesterol restrictions, one has carb issues because they are trying to lose weight and another, has severe kidney disease and the whole lot is important to try and prevent the degeneration of her kidneys any further. Not everyone sees the world the way you do as some of us actually have health issues where this ‘nonsense’ is actually important. As I collect recipes to try for various family members, having this info is vital. It would be easier if everyone could eat the same things, but life isn’t like that. For Stephanie: So Stephanie, when you speak with your team to sort this, please don’t remove the nutritional facts from the recipe print out. It is important to many of us and with an aging population and a young population interested in staying healthy, this information is only ever going to remain important, even if some don’t find it so right now. Thank you for your recipes!
Stephanie
I don’t plan on removing nutritional information. It was a herculean effort to get calculate nutrition for 1900 recipes!
Rebecca Brandis
I don’t consider 25 grams net carbs as low carb.
anne
Anything under 100g of carbs in considered low carb.
Houstonfit
Made this for my lunch, it was so good!
J
Sorry didn’t see the part about it being low carb and keto ?
Stephanie
My recipe calculator calculates all of the sugar in the onions as an ingredient. If you leave that off, the recipe has very few carbs.
Linda Hawkins
awesome recipes love this