How sometimes you want to surprise relatives and friends with a dish prepared by yourself! So we thought, why not make a famous and delicious Caesar salad yourself?
We collected the main and, most importantly, simple tricks, thanks to which this dish at home will be even better than in a restaurant!
Saturated sauce
Refueling, as is known, is not only a binder, but also one of the main elements of a salad. There are several nuances that make the sauce truly original:
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add a little greenery to the sauce - fresh or dried;
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just before dressing the salad, the sauce should be shaken;
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Store refueling in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days.
3 options for filling
No. 1. Classical
It will take :
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2 eggs
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1/2 lemon juice
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2 tsp. mustard
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2 crushed small cloves of garlic
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100 ml of olive oil
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1-2 tbsp. l. vinegar (to taste)
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1 pinch of salt and pepper
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some spicy herbs
Preparation: Puncture the eggshell of each egg on the blunt side and lower for 1 minute in slightly boiling water, after which the eggs are broken and sent to a bowl.Add mustard, lemon juice and chopped garlic, mix everything. Pour a thin trickle of olive oil, add spicy herbs to taste and mix until smooth, add salt and pepper.
№ 2. Sour cream
It will take:
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1 glass of sour cream of medium fat content
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2 ground garlic cloves
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1 tsp. mustard
Preparation: Add the garlic and mustard to the sour cream, mix everything thoroughly (in a blender or mixer).
№ 3. Mayonnaise
It will take:
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150 g of olive mayonnaise
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1 tbsp. l. lemon
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1 clove of garlic
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2-3 carcasses of anchovies
Preparation: Grind garlic and anchovies, add all ingredients to mayonnaise and mix until smooth.
Salad leaves
Traditionally, Caesar uses romaine salad, but lettuce and iceberg are also great.Lettuce leaves are important not only to wash well, but also to dry with a clean towel - so that the water along with the sauce is not at the bottom of the plate.
Crispy croutons
For croutons use, as a rule, white bread. Do not prepare them from the old bread and do not use the purchased biscuits: it will greatly spoil the taste of the salad.You can prepare the croutons in 2 ways:
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bake in the oven (so that they are covered with a thin golden crust on the top, but inside they remain soft enough);
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fry in olive oil in a frying pan (and dry before adding to salad to remove residual oil).
Cheese of hard varieties
And the last important point is cheese: "Pomezan" is "native" for "Caesar", but you can use another, but definitely hard, variety.
Recipes for Caesar salad there are many: without meat, with chicken, shrimp, salmon, anchovies. We decided to cook this cool dish with chicken.
Caesar salad with chicken
It will take:
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200 g chicken fillet
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160 g (about 3 beams) of romaine lettuce
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200 g of croutons from white bread
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4 tbsp. l. fueling
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2 tbsp. l. grated Parmesan
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some dry white wine
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100 gr of cherry tomatoes and olives
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salt and black ground pepper
Preparation:
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Wash salad leaves, dry well with a paper towel and put in the refrigerator before serving.
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Chicken fillet washed, cut into small cubes or pieces, salt, pepper (or roll in a special seasoning for chicken) and fry in olive oil until golden brown. After that put the chicken on a plate and let it cool.
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Peel white bread from the crust and cut into cubes with a face no more than 1 cm. Then dipped them in olive oil and bake in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C for no more than 10 minutes. In the process of drying, the croutons need to be turned on the baking tray 2-3 times.
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Next, prepare a dressing: classic, sour and mayonnaise.
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Lettuce leaves are torn and laid 3-4 layers on the bottom of the plate. On top of the salad put the cooled chicken, then season with sauce and leave to soak. Add the croutons.
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Grate the cheese on a large grater and sprinkle with a salad.
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Cherry tomatoes cut into halves.
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Decorate them and the olives dish.
Bon Appetit!
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