Mill's Cobb Salad Tower

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients:

1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced
1 red onion, peeled and diced
3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine
12 roasted tomato halves
2 chicken breasts, cooked, diced into 1-inch cubes
6 ounces of one cheese: blue cheese / crumbled Gorgonzola / cabrales / Stilton
1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and diced
12 leaves Boston bib lettuce
6 strips bacon, cooked crispy and diced

Dressing:

1 cup champagne vinegar
1 clove of garlic, minced fine
1 shallot, minced fine
1-cup extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper

Special equipment: Ring mold

- You may also use an empty 12-ounce tomato paste can washed out well if you don’t have a ring mold available.

Directions:

For dressing:

In a bowl, combine vinegar, shallots and garlic. Stir and allow to rest for a few minutes. With a wire whisk drizzle in the oil to emulsify. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

To make tower:

Arrange six chilled plates. Place two lettuce leaves on each plate. Put a ring mold over the lettuce in the center of the plate and press down slightly.

Arrange diced ingredients in layers in the ring mold, on at a time, pressing slight between layers, until there is one of each kind. Carefully remove the ring mold leaving a colorful vertical tower.

Whisk dressing again to re-emulsify. Drizzle dressing over and around the tower. Garnish with a sprig of chervil.