What kind of cheese goes to Caesar. Caesar salad. This is interesting
The classic simple Caesar salad with chicken and croutons is suitable for any table, but more often we cook it for the holiday. The Caesar salad recipe with chicken is very sophisticated - ruddy white bread croutons, bright cherry halves and tender chicken meat look very picturesque among the lush lettuce leaves. Grated parmesan completes the picture, and a light garlic smell tempts and beckons. All the ingredients that you are used to seeing in a classic Caesar salad do not need to be added.
A simple Caesar salad with chicken has a full taste and aroma, many believe that the addition of eggs and other products only breaks the harmony. The easiest way to season Caesar salad is with the sauce from the store of the same name. Nowadays, "Caesar" is prepared according to various new recipes, but the basis of this dish is all the same ingredients from which the first version of this salad was prepared by the restaurateur Cardini.
We are talking about crackers / croutons, lettuce, cheese and sauce. Consider how to choose the right basic ingredients and how to make a classic simple Caesar salad.
Caesar with chicken - a delicious salad recipe. In 1924, the restaurateur Caesar Cardini got into an unpleasant situation: there was a large influx of visitors in his establishment, so almost all the products were quickly eaten. And here's how he got out. It is unlikely that the author of the classic Caesar salad, an American chef of Italian origin Caesar Cardini, could have imagined that his work would be so famous all over the world.
The classic version of this salad includes green leaves, croutons, a special sauce based on egg and lemon juice with mustard and garlic, and parmesan cheese as an ingredient.
Later, chicken meat was added to the main products. Cooking Caesar salad with chicken, a classic simple recipe at home, can be done in a variety of variations. It will be a great dish for everyday or festive table. An amazing combination of ingredients allows you to enjoy each product in the composition, but at the same time feel the overall symphony of taste. So, it's time to move from words to deeds. In this article, we will present a variety of variations in the preparation of a delicious homemade "Caesar".
Simple classic recipe
Ingredients:
- Parmesan cheese - 70 g;
- Chicken breast - 300 g;
- Garlic - 2 cloves;
- Baton - 200 g;
- Olive oil;
- Salad - 1 bunch.
salad dressing
Ingredients:
- Olive oil - 100 ml;
- Mustard - 2 tsp;
- Fresh lemon juice - 2 tablespoons;
- Hard boiled yolks - 2 pcs;
- Garlic - 1 clove;
- Pepper and salt - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Squeeze the garlic cloves through a press and mix them with 5 tbsp. olive oil. Mix and leave aside for 15-20 minutes. Carefully cut the prepared piece of loaf into cubes. For this case, it is better to take yesterday's loaf, and not fresh;
- Rinse the chicken fillet and dry it with a towel. Then we cut it into cubes and fry in olive oil until fully cooked, salt and pepper. Lay out on a paper towel;
- Now let's start preparing the salad dressing. We take 2 boiled yolks and grind them with a fork. Add mustard and mix well. Now skip through the press 1 clove of garlic and add to the yolks. Mix and add lemon juice, olive oil, ground pepper and salt. We mix everything well. Grate Parmesan cheese into a hotel plate;
- We take a beautiful serving plate and rub it with half a clove of garlic. Arrange lettuce leaves nicely. Put croutons and fried chicken fillet on top of the salad. Pour the prepared sauce over the salad and sprinkle generously with grated Parmesan cheese. In some versions of the preparation of Caesar salad, the cheese is not grated and cut into thin slices with a vegetable cutter. You choose which option you like best;
- To decorate Caesar salad with chicken and croutons, you can still sprinkle with pomegranate seeds - this will not change the taste, but its appearance will become more festive. Bon appetit!
Salad with chicken and mayonnaise
Caesar salad with chicken and mayonnaise. The Caesar salad recipe is by no means classic. It is easy and quick to prepare, the result is excellent, especially in terms of taste.
Ingredients:
- Beijing cabbage or iceberg lettuce - 10-12 leaves;
- Hard cheese, preferably parmesan - 100-120 g;
- Chicken fillet - 150-200 g;
- Mayonnaise - half a glass;
- Dried basil - 0.5 tsp;
- Cherry tomatoes - 10-12 pcs.;
- Extra virgin olive oil - 4 tablespoons;
- Juice of half a lemon;
- White bread or loaf - 4 pieces;
- Garlic - 3 cloves;
- Black ground pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
- Cut the banana pieces into small cubes;
- As an experiment, try croutons from black bread and white bread in a ratio of 50 to 50, it will turn out delicious. Put the slices of bread on a baking sheet in one layer, sprinkle olive oil on top, put in the oven for 15 minutes, temperature 150 degrees, the croutons should turn golden;
- Lightly beat the chicken fillet, salt and pepper;
- Fry in a small amount of olive oil on both sides until a crust appears, then bring to readiness under the lid. Cool the chicken, and cut into pieces in size, like croutons;
- To prepare the sauce, garlic must be crushed to the state of garlic paste, transfer to a bowl;
- Put mayonnaise, dried basil, ground black pepper;
- Squeeze the juice from half a lemon, add to the sauce along with olive oil;
- Mix everything with a blender. It will turn out just a chic gas station;
- Wash the Chinese cabbage leaves and tear with your hands into small pieces (can be replaced with leaf lettuce or iceberg lettuce), put on the bottom of the salad bowl;
- Put croutons on top;
- Then put the chicken pieces, halved cherry tomatoes;
- Spread the sauce over the entire surface, grate the cheese on top;
- Repeat all layers again. Caesar salad with chicken is ready, now leave for 15 minutes and you can serve. Bon appetit!
Salad with chicken and tomatoes
Salad with chicken, croutons and tomatoes. This is a variation on the classic Caesar salad recipe with chicken but with tomatoes. It takes a minimum of time to cook, and tomatoes perfectly complement the delicate taste.
Ingredients:
- Tomatoes - 200 g;
- Chicken fillet - 0.5 kg;
- Olive oil;
- Parmesan cheese - 100 g;
- Lettuce leaves - 150 g;
- Long loaf without peel - 200 g.
- Lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;
- Garlic - 1 clove;
- Mustard to taste;
- Spices to taste.
Cooking method:
- First of all, we prepare the meat. It must be washed, and then fried on both sides with spices in vegetable oil until golden brown. Cool the meat, and then cut it into large enough pieces. While the other ingredients are being prepared, the chicken meat will have time to cool completely - this is what we need;
- Now we are preparing crackers, for which white bread is cut into cubes of about 1 cm on each side. Next, fry the bread in vegetable oil, and then you can put the crackers in the oven so that they dry a little. But here it is important not to overdry the ingredient, so be on the lookout. Washed lettuce leaves need to be torn with your hands and put on a plate for serving Caesar. Coarsely, like a chicken, chop the tomatoes. Cheese is rubbed on a large grater;
- To prepare the sauce in a separate bowl, mix all the ingredients. First pass the garlic through a press, and then add to the sauce. Put chicken, tomatoes, croutons on already prepared lettuce leaves. Pour the sauce over everything and sprinkle with cheese on top. Bon appetit!
Salad with smoked chicken
Caesar salad with smoked chicken. You can cook Caesar salad with chicken, a classic simple recipe, according to the video version, where smoked chicken meat is taken instead of raw chicken. This is a savory version of the much-loved dish, which significantly reduces the overall cooking time.
Ingredients:
- Cheese - 100 g;
- Chicken yolk - 2 pcs.;
- Olive oil;
- Garlic - 1 clove;
- Lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;
- Mustard - 1 tablespoon;
- Chicken fillet - 300 g;
- Baton - 200 g;
- Bunch of lettuce.
Cooking method:
- To quickly and easily prepare delicious crackers, you can simply dry the diced bread in the oven. In principle, you can fry crackers in vegetable oil, here, whichever one likes more. Cut the chicken into large pieces, tear the salad into large portions, and grate the cheese. All the ingredients are ready and it remains only to make the dressing, and then start assembling the salad;
- To prepare the dressing, you need to combine chopped garlic with olive oil and carefully pour plenty of lemon juice over everything. Add salt and your favorite spices. Separately, grind the yolks with mustard, and then pour them into the main composition of the sauce, mix everything until a homogeneous consistency.
Put green leaves on a salad serving dish, put chicken on top: pour dressing over everything. Next comes the cheese and crackers, once again pour the sauce abundantly and beautifully. Caesar salad with chicken is ready! Bon appetit!
Video recipe "Caesar salad with chicken and croutons"
Hi all! Now is the time to prepare salads. Today we will devote time to the rubric and prepare a beloved by many, very tasty and popular classic Caesar salad. We will cook it with crackers, because they are among the main ingredients of the salad, just like romaine lettuce leaves and grated parmesan, seasoned with a special sauce, which, first of all, is the essence of the recipe.
Because of its lightness, the classic Caesar salad is added with more high-calorie ingredients, such as a hard-boiled egg or fried chicken.
With the help of such simple and affordable products, it is possible to prepare a delicious salad for dinner for a family or a small company in a few minutes.
I'm sure this salad will become one of your favorites!
There are a lot of recipes for this salad. Of all the varieties of this salad, the most popular is Caesar with chicken. In addition to chicken, modern interpretations are also used with seafood, ham, squid, shrimp, salmon, mushrooms, and turkey. Recipes using such a variety of products in a Caesar salad are no less popular.
How to cook the classic Caesar salad recipe with chicken
An easy-to-prepare dish that will delight you with its simplicity and at the same time amazing taste.
Your guests will love this appetizer!
Ingredients:
- lettuce leaves (Beijing cabbage) - a small bunch;
- chicken fillet - 200 gr
- parmesan cheese - 50 gr
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l
- salt, pepper - to taste
- caesar salad dressing
For croutons (crackers):
- long loaf, baguette - 1 piece
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l
- garlic - 1 prong (or dry)
Cooking:
1. Cooking croutons (crackers) for Caesar salad First of all, we need to prepare butter with garlic flavor. To do this, peel one large clove of garlic. We crush it on a cutting board, it is possible to do it with a knife blade and chop it.
2. Put the garlic in a small container, add hot olive oil and let the mass brew. You can add olive oil to the garlic and warm the mass in the microwave for 20 seconds. The oil will be saturated with garlic aroma.
3. At bread (you can take a baguette or a loaf), cut off the crusts and cut it into small cubes.
Lay the bread cubes on a baking sheet. Drizzle the bread slices with garlic-flavored olive oil, after removing the garlic from the mixture. Even unlike the first option, you can pour bread slices with fragrant olive oil and sprinkle dry garlic on top. This option is just as good.
4. We heat the oven to 120 degrees. We put a baking sheet with crackers in it for 20 minutes. Crackers should be lightly browned and dry. Don't let them burn. Darkened and burnt crackers will not work for us.
5. We coped with the crackers and finally we begin to collect the salad. Lettuce leaves of Chinese cabbage are washed and dried on a towel.
6. Cooking a beautiful plate.
To give the salad aroma and taste, rub the plate with a clove of garlic.
7. We tear the prepared lettuce leaves into arbitrary pieces with our hands, do not cut them and put them on a plate.
8. Cooking chicken. Cut the fillet lengthwise into two parts, beat off, salt and pepper to taste.
9. In a preheated pan, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Fry the chicken fillet on both sides for 5 minutes.
10. Cut the finished, juicy chicken into small slices.
Preparing the Caesar salad dressing.
11. For dressing, we need eggs at room temperature. In addition, if they were in the refrigerator, they must be kept at room temperature for 2-3 hours. To speed up the process of warming the eggs, they need to be lowered into warm (30 ° C) salted water in large quantities under the lid for 30 minutes.
When the eggs for dressing are warmed to room temperature, first of all, boil the egg for exactly 1 minute in a large amount of boiling water without boiling. And then remove from boiling water and cool for 10-15 minutes. This is the main "secret" of the taste of Caesar salad.
13. Season with the juice of one lemon, salt to taste and 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.
14. Mix all the ingredients in a blender.
15. On a green salad, which we lay out chicken fillet slices in a plate. Pour dressing over salad, mix. Add croutons (crackers), sprinkle with chopped thin translucent shavings of Parmesan cheese.
Classic Caesar salad with chicken served immediately.
Bon appetit!
Simple salad with chicken and homemade croutons
A simple and tasty Caesar salad with chicken and croutons can be easily and quickly prepared at home for the New Year.
Ingredients:
- romaine lettuce - 1 bunch
- cherry tomatoes -10 pcs
- quail eggs -7 pcs
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- mustard - 1/2 tsp
- chicken fillet - 300 gr
- sour cream - 1/2 tbsp
- butter - 1 tbsp
- olive oil -4 tbsp.
- loaf or baguette - 1 pc.
- garlic - 4 cloves
- lemon juice -1 tbsp
- Worcestershire sauce - to taste (a few drops)
- Parmesan cheese - 70g
- salt, black, red pepper to taste
Cooking:
1. First of all, let's deal with chicken fillet. Unlike other recipes, we need to marinate it. Wash the fillet, rub with salt, sprinkle with pepper, coat with sour cream and leave in this state for 40 minutes.
2. As soon as our fillet is marinated, fry it until golden brown in an equal amount of butter and olive oil (1 tbsp each)
3. In the oven, bring to readiness. Cool the breast and cut into slices across the fibers.
4. Making garlic oil. Crush the garlic with the tip of a knife and chop. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to it and let it brew for 3 hours. After the oil is infused, remove the garlic.
5 Cooking croutons (crackers). Cut the crust from the loaf, cut the loaf into small cubes, salt, pepper with red pepper and fry in garlic oil. Dry in the oven if desired.
6. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them in a towel and tear them into a plate with your hands.
7. Boil quail eggs, cool, peel, cut into halves.
8. Wash the cherry, dry it, cut it in half.
9. Prepare Caesar sauce. Egg at room temperature, dip in boiling water with salt for one minute, then cool.
10. Break the egg into the olive oil, which was cooked for 1 minute and beat, add lemon juice, mustard, a little Worcestershire sauce, add salt to taste and mix well until smooth.
11. Season lettuce and chicken with Caesar sauce, mix, put on a dish. Add eggs and tomatoes; drizzle with remaining dressing. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and croutons before serving. You can apply.
Caesar salad with smoked chicken and mayonnaise
Delicate, light and fragrant - it will be a great addition to both the festive and everyday table.
Ingredients:
- smoked chicken breast - 350 gr
- green salad - 200 gr
- cherry tomatoes - 200 gr
- white bread - 1 pc.
For sauce:
- mayonnaise - 30 gr
- olive oil - 40 ml
- garlic - 1 tooth
- Worcestershire sauce - 5 g
- lemon - 1 pc.
- salt, pepper - to taste
- granulated sugar - 1 tsp
Cooking:
1. First of all, we make croutons (crackers). They can be cooked in the oven or in a heavy bottomed pan. Cut white bread into cubes and dry until golden brown in the oven. Before drying, sprinkle the croutons with olive oil and sprinkle with dry garlic.
2. Wash my leaf lettuce, dry it with a plain or paper towel and tear it coarsely with your hands. We put the lettuce in a dish or salad bowl.
3. Cut the skinless smoked chicken breast into slices, add to the lettuce.
4. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half, add to the salad bowl.
Preparing the sauce:
6. Pour olive oil into a blender, squeeze the juice of one lemon, add mayonnaise (preferably homemade), a clove of garlic squeezed through a press, Worcester sauce, one teaspoon of granulated sugar, salt and pepper to taste. We mix all the ingredients until a homogeneous mass is obtained, we try. The most important thing is that you like the sauce.
7. Pour the prepared sauce over the salad and serve.
8. The sauce can be served separately in a gravy boat.
That's all, you can serve the dish to the table!
Bon appetit!
A step-by-step salad recipe like in a restaurant with chicken, tomatoes and croutons
Caesar salad has become very popular lately. Having gained such popularity, it is often prepared in restaurants. It can be served as an independent dish, or as an addition to others. Today I suggest you cook Caesar salad with chicken, tomatoes and croutons. A step by step recipe will help you with this.
- chicken fillet 400 gr
- iceberg lettuce 1 head
- cherry tomatoes 200 gr
- parmesan cheese 100 gr
- white bread 1 loaf
- garlic 2 cloves
- olive oil3 tbsp
- salt, black pepper - to taste
For sauce:
- eggs - 2 pcs
- olive oil - 60 ml
- mustard - 2 tsp
- lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
- garlic - 2 cloves
- parmesan cheese - 50 gr
- salt to taste
Cooking:
1. Prepare salad dressing. First of all, take the eggs out of the fridge 2 hours in advance to warm them up. When the eggs have warmed to room temperature, dip them in boiling water for 1 minute, remove and cool. Break the eggs into a deep bowl.
2. Add the juice of one lemon and chopped garlic to the eggs. Garlic can be finely chopped with a knife or squeezed through a garlic press.
3. Rub the cheese on a fine grater and add to the eggs in a bowl.
Place all the ingredients for the sauce in a blender and blend until smooth.
4. In addition, add olive oil and mustard to the bowl with the eggs. Add salt to taste and grind in a blender all the ingredients necessary and prepared for the sauce into a homogeneous mass.
5. Caesar sauce is ready. Pour it into another container and set aside.
Caesar salad preparation
6. Let's start with the preparation of crackers. Cut the crust off the bread and cut into small cubes.
Peel the garlic, crush it on a cutting board, this can be done with a knife blade and chop.
We put the garlic in a small container, add hot olive oil and let the mass brew for a while. You can add olive oil to the garlic and warm the mass in the microwave for 20 seconds. The oil will be saturated with garlic aroma. You can use any of the suggested options.
8. Lay out the bread cubes on a baking sheet and pour them with aromatic, garlic oil. We put a baking sheet with crackers in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-15 minutes. Crackers should dry out and be crispy golden.
9. Rinse the chicken fillet and cut it into small strips 10 centimeters long.
10. Heat the frying pan well on fire, pour olive oil. Lay out the chicken fillet pieces and fry them on both sides until golden brown. I sprinkle the finished chicken with a mixture of Provencal herbs, salt and pepper to taste.
11. Cut the cooled pieces of meat into strips. For one serving of salad - one piece of meat.
This is what Iceberg lettuce looks like, it is very similar to cabbage. Unlike regular lettuce, Iceberg does not get soggy when sauce is added and remains crunchy. So, my head of lettuce, remove the leaves from the head of cabbage.
12. For a salad, iceberg lettuce is the best for us. When sauce is added, it remains crisp (does not lose its taste) and does not soak in the finished dish.
13. Wash the iceberg, dry it in a towel, no need to cut. Lettuce leaves may taste bitter when cut. Break it into large pieces with your hands. This way it will retain its flavor.
14. Wash the cherry tomatoes and cut them into halves or quarters, depending on the size.
15. Cut the Parmesan cheese into thin slices with a paring knife.
16. We have all the ingredients for the salad ready. Let's start assembling the Caesar salad, as in a restaurant. Arrange iceberg lettuce on the bottom of a plate. Put the chicken fillet and parmesan cheese chips on them.
17. Sprinkle fragrant croutons on top, pour sauce over our salad. We spread the tomatoes in a chaotic manner, they give the dish sourness and balance the taste. Our Caesar salad with chicken, tomatoes and croutons is ready in a restaurant. Serve such a salad well for the festive table or just a family dinner.
Bon appetit!
Caesar salad with chicken, Chinese cabbage, croutons and cheese: a recipe with a classic photo
Caesar salad with chicken (a recipe with a classic photo) has not only passed the test of time, but also still remains at the peak of popularity. It is often ordered in restaurants and is not at all difficult to cook at home. Today I suggest you cook a Caesar salad with chicken, Chinese cabbage, croutons and cheese. Our classic recipe with photos will help you with this.
Ingredients:
- lettuce leaves - 100 gr
- white bread - 3-4 slices
- chicken fillet - 300 gr
- parmesan cheese - 30 gr
- olive oil - 3-4 tbsp
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- garlic 3-4 cloves
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp
- salt, ground black pepper - to your taste
Cooking:
1. Rinse lettuce leaves and dry on a towel.
2. Cut off the crusts from the bread and cut it into small cubes.
Peel the garlic, flatten the cloves with the flat blade of a knife and chop them. Heat a frying pan well, pour olive oil. Put the garlic and bread cubes into the pan. Fry everything until golden brown, stirring. This way of roasting, the bread will give the aroma and taste of garlic.
3. Hard boil the egg, cool, peel and mash well with a fork in mashed potatoes. Bake the chicken breast in the oven. If you like lean meat, you can boil it in salted water, and then lightly fry. In any case, the meat should be juicy and crispy on the outside.
4. Lubricate the walls of the salad bowl with a clove of garlic. Let's start putting together the salad. Tear lettuce leaves with your hands into large pieces and put in a salad bowl.
5. Gut the chicken into large fibers with your hands. Add them to your salad.
6. Next, add the egg puree.
7. Separate the fried garlic from the croutons. Spread the toasted bread slices on top of the egg puree.
8. Prepare dressing sauce. In olive oil, add lemon juice, ground black pepper and salt to taste, a little Worcestershire sauce. It adds spice to the salad. Mix the sauce well.
9. Lightly, without ramming, mix the ingredients in the salad. Add dressing to salad and shake well.
10. Sprinkle Parmesan on top.
11. The salad is ready. It is served on the table immediately, without insisting. Delicate, light and fragrant - it will be a great addition to both the festive and everyday table.
Bon appetit!
- Peel the garlic, crush it with the flat side of a knife. Place in a small bowl and drizzle with olive oil. Put in the microwave for 40 seconds. Cut off the crust from the white loaf, cut the pulp into cubes. Put on a baking sheet, pour over the resulting garlic oil and mix. Send the baking sheet to the oven for 20 - 40 minutes and bake at a temperature of 150 degrees.
- Ready crackers to cool. For dressing, mix boiled yolks, mustard and crushed garlic. Grind the mass with a pestle in a small mortar. Add lemon juice and salt to taste. Pour olive oil in portions, continuing to rub. Leave the sauce for an hour to infuse. Cut the raw chicken fillet lengthwise into thin slices, salt and pepper to taste.
- Fry in olive oil for 4-5 minutes on each side. Wash and dry lettuce leaves. Tear the leaves into pieces and put on a dish. Topped with garlic butter croutons and chicken slices, then thinly sliced parmesan cheese. Drizzle classic Caesar salad with chicken dressing. Garnish with quartered cherry tomatoes or regular tomato slices.
Everything about Caesar salad from its inception to the present day.
If you have searched the Internet at least once for a Caesar salad recipe, you could not help but notice that every author who publishes a recipe claims that this particular recipe is the real and the most true.
In this article I will tell you about the history of Caesar salad, the main ingredients of the salad, the recipe for the very first salad that glorified its author.
Authentic caesar salad recipe
I have already mentioned a huge number of "true" recipes for this salad on culinary sites. Approximately the same, if not more, variety can be seen in cafes and restaurants. This diversity is quite understandable - it is a struggle for the client. Both websites and restaurants want to surprise visitors with the uniqueness and sophistication of the product, attract and retain.
All the diversity starts with the way the dish is served (the most incredible dishes, decor and decoration) and ends with the variability of the ingredients (different versions of lettuce leaves, a variety of sauces and dressings, the introduction of completely unexpected ingredients into the salad, etc.). You can order Caesar pizza or Caesar salad, the recipe of which includes pasta (pasta).
Is it worth condemning the authors of these recipes for such a free interpretation of the original recipe? I think no. And now I will try to justify my position. I suggest you take a little break from Caesar salad and talk about French cuisine.
Today, no one will argue with the fact that French cuisine can be attributed to the great cuisines of the world. And no one will say that this cuisine is only a historical rarity for the simple reason that the culinary traditions of France continue to develop and improve.
Why has French cuisine not lost its fame and relevance? For the simple reason that a fundamental principle is laid down in the culinary traditions of French cuisine - a recipe is needed only as a basis for cooking, based on which each chef can bring something of his own and create a dish that has its own zest and differs from that what is served in another restaurant or in another house.
And now I propose to consider the main components of the recipe.
Salad leaves for Caesar
Adherents of the classic recipe will argue that the only option for this salad can only be fresh and crispy Romaine lettuce leaves. And their argument will be ironclad - it was this salad leaf that was included in Caesar's first original recipe.
However, in that memorable recipe there was no chicken fillet and / or shrimp, there were no rye croutons, etc. Why am I? This I mean that the dish should have a harmonious balanced taste. For example, if you introduce pieces of beef into the salad, then it would be very appropriate to use arugula leaves. This combination will create a "zest of taste" for the salad.
In addition, geography must also be taken into account - it is not always possible to find the required leaf lettuce of decent quality in winter. And here I propose to adhere to the principles of French cuisine - the recipe is not a dogma. This is the basis for the creativity of the chef.
And if you use the leaves of another lettuce, there is nothing to worry about. The main thing is that this new ingredient does not spoil the taste of the dish.
Crackers or croutons for Caesar
More recently, on one of the culinary blogs, one of the hostesses complained that she couldn’t make croutons for Caesar in any way: the croutons either burn, or they turn out crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The lady asked for help and advice - how to cook croutons?
The fact is that for the preparation of the classic Caesar salad, not croutons are used, but croutons. In principle, these are the same crackers (from white bread), but crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. We can say that croutons is a term denoting the degree of roasting crackers.
And if the young lady from the blog has croutons obtained naturally, then for some cooks it is difficult to cook croutons. If you are having trouble preparing this ingredient, then my tips will help you:
- It is necessary to constantly monitor the baking process: slices of white bread, previously flavored with sauce, must be laid out on a baking sheet and placed in a well-heated oven. The optimum temperature is 180-200 degrees. If the temperature is too high, the bread will burn. At a low temperature, the bread will simply dry into croutons. At the optimum temperature, immediately after the appearance of a golden crust, the baking sheet must be removed from the oven. Slightly overcook and get tanned croutons. Not fatal, of course, but crackers with a spicy taste of burnt bread can hopelessly spoil the dish;
- The second important point is the number of croutons on the baking sheet. If there are too many “blanks”, then the air will not circulate freely around the baking sheet. As a result, coals will turn out around the edges, and in the center the pieces of bread will remain wet from the sauce;
- Another secret: take a fresh white loaf and remove the crust (this way you will achieve even roasting). Even better - break a fresh loaf and carefully (with your hands) remove the crumb, and "pick" pieces of bread with your hands. Smooth edges are good for classic crackers, and such “handmade” will be another highlight of your “Caesar”;
- Do not cook croutons (crackers) for the future. Salad should be harvested just before serving. Then the crackers will not get damp, and valuable flavors will not disappear.
Delicious croutons is a delicious sauce
And the most important secret of making croutons (crackers) is the sauce with which you soak the croutons. Surprised? Just a loaf (even the tastiest) will not work for a signature salad. The sauce will eventually add another "zest" to your recipe.
You can use the classic sauce recipe: pour coarse salt and black pepper into a mortar, grind, add olive oil, mix, let stand for 25-30 minutes (we insist). And then we sprinkle slices of loaf with this sauce. This is just a classic taste for Caesar salad.
And with this classic you can "play":
- Change the type of oil (pumpkin, sesame, grape, etc.);
- Introduce dried herbs and / or spices into the sauce (mint, rosemary, chili pepper, adjika, sweet paprika, etc.);
- Nuts, seeds, grains (sunflower and pumpkin, pine nuts, mustard seeds, cumin, etc.).
And you can make the salad "more Russian" - use rye croutons or white real ruddy crackers. Only, for God's sake, do not use ready-to-eat from the hypermarket. Why do you need a set of an amateur chemist in a healthy and healthy dish?
Caesar salad cheese
Initially, only and exclusively Parmesan cheese was used for the salad. Connoisseurs say that only this kind of cheese fully reveals all the charm of the salad and forms the taste bouquet of "Caesar".
And here we can agree with gourmets. But, not 100%. Cheap Russian cheeses with a high proportion of salt and a rough taste will indeed, without prior preparation, be out of place in a classic salad - such cheese will simply kill all other flavor notes. But, it's in the classic Caesar.
I suggest experimenting. Try entering into your recipe, for example, Sour Cream Cheese or Roquefort. Or maybe moldy cheese? Need to try! It can turn out to be a very beautiful flavor range.
And if you use cheese platter or cheese balls. Do you know how to make cheese balls?
Take 2-3 types of cheese, grate them, add an egg and form balls. Then, roll these balls in breadcrumbs and in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. The calorie content of the dish, alas, will increase. But, how it will be unforgettably delicious (crispy balls with delicate filling).
Don't want extra calories? Prepare the cheese petals: grate the cheese on a coarse grater (hard cheeses), put cheese petals (such flat piles) on a baking sheet (previously covered with paper), and bake for 2-3 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. Once the cheese is melted and browned, it's ready. When the cheese has cooled, you will have "cheese chips" for the salad. Crispy and flavorful.
No desire to "get dirty" with a grater? Just cut the cheese into sticks, roll in breadcrumbs and fry. It will be very tasty. Not as tasty as balls, but exceptionally tasty. Of course, if you like cheese.
Don't be afraid to experiment.
What to fill Caesar?
I’ll start right away with the fact that mayonnaise from the store is the worst of all possible dressings. The same, classic "Caesar" seasoned with Worcestershire sauce and olive oil. Making real Worcestershire sauce at home is almost impossible. Moreover, if you have this sauce (you can buy it in a store), then it will be better (i.e. tastier) to prepare such a dressing:
- boil the egg for 1 minute (no longer. I.e., the egg should be dipped in boiling water for 1 minute), then break the chilled egg into a bowl, add a few drops of Worcester sauce, olive oil, salt and a little (2-3 drops) of lemon juice , mix well. That's all. The dressing is just incredible (for this salad).
Dressings and sauces are another story altogether. If you season the same dish with different sauces, then you will get several different (to taste) dishes. Those. dressings and sauces allow you to diversify the taste of a traditional dish and do not let it become boring.
Try other condiments. And you can go in a very simple way - work with mayonnaise (of course, with homemade).
Add to mayonnaise (to taste):
- mustard (spicy or sweet):
- garlic;
- chopped fresh or pickled cucumber;
- homemade ketchup or adjika;
- nuts, seeds;
- zest (lemon, orange, lime);
- dried or fresh herbs (finely chopped);
- cream, sour cream, yogurt;
- etc.
The only limitation here is that it tastes good.
What is Caesar without chicken
I'll start with the fact that in that very first, "Caesar", there was no chicken fillet. He was very, very light. However, not very satisfying. Who and when added chicken meat to the salad? It was so long ago that the majority of lovers of this salad believe that it (meat) has always been there.
Chicken meat in a salad is a later acquisition of the recipe.
Chicken fillet is traditionally boiled or grilled.
The next step in the development of the recipe - why only fillets? What is worse than wings (caramelized or Mexican), or legs (including smoked ones)? Or chicken liver stewed in cream?
And after the chicken, fried bacon appeared in the salad, and other types of meat, fish and seafood. Those. Caesar salad with salmon or shrimp is not a perversion of the recipe, but its creative rethinking.
Such a variety allows you to cook "Caesar" at least every day. We change the “main satisfying ingredient” and, in fact, we get a new salad. Simply beauty! Plus a different sauce, plus a new dressing. But, we will talk about this below.
Also try the salad with small meatballs. Meatballs can be meat or fish, or vegetable (they can be fried in a pan or baked in the oven. And then, as an option, slightly “stewed” in the sauce). Unexpected and very tasty.
Those. Again, don't be afraid to experiment!
What else to add to "Caesar"
You can enjoy the original recipe: lettuce, parmesan, olive oil and croutons. The charm is in simplicity.
And you can also tinker a little. Add an egg (quail eggs are often added. I think chicken will be more interesting for taste), or tomatoes (tomatoes can be baked in the oven beforehand), various mushrooms, olives, orange slices. It is very important to observe the measure and “not overload” the salad. An abundance of taste can turn an exquisite Caesar into a dish with an indefinite taste.
How did Caesar come about?
Do you know how chips were invented? And "Herring under a fur coat"? "Kyiv cake"? I can think of dozens more popular recipes today. They have one thing in common - chance.
Something like this happened with the Caesar salad. In a small restaurant immigrated from Italy, Caesar Cardini, a whole crowd of Hollywood filmmakers fell (it was July 4, 1924). The guests demanded drinks and snacks. Fast! And if everything was simple with alcohol, then there was a hitch with a snack - you need to cook something quickly, a lot and tasty. While preparing the main dishes.
Maestro Caesar just grabbed his head. And then he quickly rubbed the plates with garlic (what can you do - the Italian school is simply impossible without garlic), narwhal and put romaine lettuce leaves on the plates, mixed a lightly boiled egg with olive oil and Worcester sauce, fried white bread, seasoned everything with lemon juice, mixed and sprinkled with parmesan.
The salad was not just liked by spoiled guests! Sheer delight!
And they also have word of mouth in America... The salad quickly became popular and got the name of the chef who invented it - Caesar.
Some time later, the recipe was slightly “tweaked”. Even in the restaurant of Caesar himself, the Caesar salad had several versions.
But, let's get back to the first version (or the one that was first named by the descendants of Caesar Cardini). The recipe that I offer you is written from the words of the daughter of the author of this salad).
To prepare the Caesar salad you will need:
- Romaine lettuce - 400 g
- White bread - 100 g
- Olive oil (for croutons) - 30 ml
- Olive oil - (for dressing) - 30 ml
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
- Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon
- Worcestershire sauce - 2-3 drops
- Parmesan cheese - 50 g
- Salt and ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparing the Caesar salad:
- Rinse and dry the lettuce leaves well, tear with your hands into medium-sized pieces.
- Tear the crumb of white bread with your hands into small (up to 1 cm) pieces.
- Mix olive oil with finely chopped garlic and salt. Sprinkle the bread slices with this mixture.
- Put the pieces of bread on a baking sheet and brown in the oven (the pieces should be crispy on the outside and soft on the inside).
- Dip the egg for one minute in boiling water, and then let it cool. So that the egg does not crack, the water must be salted very steeply.
- In a bowl with olive oil, break the egg, beat with a blender until smooth, add parmesan, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice, mix well.
- In a large bowl, very gently mix lettuce leaves with dressing, put the leaves on a plate in which we will serve the Caesar salad. Rub the plate with garlic first.
- Arrange croutons and serve salad.
Well, perhaps that's all. Thanks to those who were able to read this article to the end. For the modern Internet, this is not typical at all.
And don't be afraid to experiment. Almost all the "highlights" of world cuisine are the result of an experiment, a case. Be brave and don't be afraid to make mistakes. Caesar salad is like a quality open source program. It's hard to mess up. And creating your own masterpiece is very simple.
Many of us, when thinking about how to make a Caesar salad, how to make a Caesar salad, how to make a Caesar salad, how to make a Caesar salad, etc., are rarely interested in who came up with the Caesar salad recipe. At the word "Caesar" most of us first of all remember Gaius Julius Caesar, but he did not invent the Caesar salad. The recipe for Caesar salad was invented by Caesar Cardini, an American of Italian origin. It was he who, in 1924, mixed eggs, olive oil, lettuce, bread, Parmesan cheese, garlic and Worcestershire sauce, created the world's first Caesar salad. It’s just that according to legend, he didn’t have other salad products and the chef had to get out. This is the classic Caesar salad. All other ingredients familiar to us were added to the Caesar salad later. For example, they began to cook Caesar salad with chicken, caesar salad with salmon, caesar salad with shrimps. Today, many people mistakenly believe that Caesar salad with chicken is a classic, but this is not so. It should be noted that the classic Caesar salad is made with a special sauce; the recipe for Caesar salad sauce is not known today. If you are interested in the classic Caesar salad recipe, you should definitely know how to make Caesar salad dressing. Caesar salad dressing includes raw eggs, olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, garlic and lemon juice. Thus, Caesar salad dressing is actually homemade mayonnaise. That is why Caesar salad with mayonnaise is so often prepared ready-made, as in the recipe Caesar salad with chicken with mayonnaise.
The most popular Caesar salad at home, it is also the simplest, it is Caesar salad with chicken, croutons, fresh lettuce and mayonnaise. But if you are a real gourmet and you are interested in Caesar salad, a simple recipe is unlikely to suit you. Try the classic Caesar salad and you won't regret it. If you do not have the time or desire to prepare a real Caesar salad, the recipe can be simplified. The two required ingredients are lettuce and croutons. Although Beijing cabbage is sometimes used instead of lettuce, this is a recipe for Caesar salad with Chinese cabbage. In addition to lettuce, other vegetables are sometimes added, for example, Caesar salad with tomatoes is prepared. The recipe for Caesar salad with tomatoes is more juicy. Probably the only constant ingredient of any Caesar salad is croutons. The recipe for Caesar salad with croutons uses both ready-made croutons and fried bread or croutons. Caesar salad with croutons can be prepared in an original way. If you overcook the croutons a little to a dark color, you get a black Caesar salad. For many, cooking Caesar salad is unthinkable without chicken, so Caesar salad it turns out much more satisfying. Chicken meat can be cooked in a variety of ways, this is Caesar salad with smoked chicken, and Caesar salad recipe with grilled chicken. In addition, it happens that they generally forget about chicken when preparing Caesar salad with ham. Thus, Caesar salad can be prepared not only with chicken, the ingredients can be very diverse. You can find a recipe for Caesar salad with salmon, a recipe for Caesar salad with shrimp. So the choice of recipe is up to you. Search, and if you want to do everything flawlessly, choose Caesar salad recipe with photo, Caesar salad photo, Caesar salad with chicken photo.
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