This was in the late 90s of the last century. While in Mexico, we decided to try the Caesar salad, the most famous even at that time. Of course, if you try Peking duck, then it is best to try it in Beijing, at the Peking Duck restaurant. Also Caesar salad, we went to try it at the Caesar restaurant, where, according to legend, the triumph of this salad began and was prepared in those days by the creator of this salad - Caesar Cardini, the owner of this restaurant.

How to prepare Caesar salad - step-by-step cooking recipes

Menu:

In our time, unfortunately, Caesar no longer existed, but when we ordered Caesar salad, to our surprise and joy, a cart arrived at the table with all the ingredients for the salad laid out on it, and the chef of the restaurant was driving this cart.

1. Classic Caesar salad recipe - from the chef of the Caesar restaurant in Mexico

4-6 servings

Ingredients:

• Romaine lettuce - 2 large heads
• Garlic - 2 large cloves
• Salt - 1/4 tsp.
• Olive oil - 3/4 cup is best
• White bread crackers - 2 cups
• Lemon - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Parmesan cheese, freshly grated - 1/4 cup
• Pepper in a hand mill
• Worcestershire sauce - 6-8 drops.

Caesar salad preparation

1. Lettuce – You need 6-8 clean, undamaged lettuce leaves per person. Wash them, wrap them carefully in a towel and put them in the refrigerator for a while.
2. Breadcrumbs - Grind the garlic in a small mortar or bowl. Add salt and puree until smooth. Pour in 3 tbsp little by little. oil, stir and strain the oil into a frying pan, heat it slightly and put the crackers in it. Stir for one minute. Place in a small salad bowl.
3. Just before serving, squeeze the juice from the lemon into a glass.
4. Place the eggs in boiling water for exactly 1 minute, remove and immediately cool with cold water. The top layer of white will stick somewhat, but the egg will be runny.
5. Grate the cheese on a fine grater - 1/4 cup.

Lemon juice, eggs, cheese - place in separate containers.

1. Place all prepared ingredients including olive oil, breadcrumbs, pepper mill, salt, Worcestershire sauce on a tray.
2. Chill large dinner plates and place lettuce leaves in the largest salad bowl you have.

And then the boss’s magic began with detailed explanations

All his movements were slow and smooth.

• The chef placed lettuce leaves in a very large wooden salad bowl.
• Poured some olive oil
• Turn the leaves in the salad bowl twice using a large spoon and fork.
• Add salt and turn the pepper mill eight times
• I poured about 2 more tablespoons. olive oil
• Turned the leaves over again.
• Sprinkled with lemon juice.
• Added 6 drops of Worcestershire sauce
• Broke eggs over salad
• Turned the leaves twice again
• Grate about 1/4 cup over the salad. parmesan cheese
• Turned the leaves over again
• I poured out the crackers
• And mixed the salad twice again
• Arrange the leaves in a circle on chilled plates, stems facing out.

Once again he emphasized that there was no need to rush. Movements should be smooth and slow so as not to damage the leaves. We stir the salad by grabbing the leaves from below with two utensils and, as it were, tossing them a little upward. You can eat the salad with your hands, but you may need a fork and knife to scoop up the breadcrumbs.

Of course, I think that the chef did all this for restaurant pathos, but this is exactly the order in which the salad is assembled. If you turn the leaves not twice, but three times, I think nothing bad will happen.

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1. Homemade Caesar salad with chicken and mushrooms

Ingredients:

• Iceberg lettuce - half a large head
• Chicken breast - 1 pc.
• Champignons - 200 g.

For the sauce:

• Mayonnaise - 4-5 tbsp.
• Garlic - 1 medium clove
• Anchovies - 2-3 pcs.

For refueling:

• Grated cheese - 1/4 cup
• Crackers - 1 cup

For decoration:

• Eggs - 4 pcs.

Caesar salad preparation

1. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes.

2. Cut the chicken breasts lengthwise to make them thinner.

3. Salt and pepper the breast.

4. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and add the chicken breast to fry. There is no need to fry the breast too much, otherwise it will become dry and tasteless. Fry until lightly golden brown on each side. Test for readiness; if the knife goes in softly and the juice is light, then everything is fine. Or cut a piece.

5. Turn the breast over and fry on the other side, just like the first.

6. Place the second frying pan on the stove, pour a little oil and add mushrooms to fry until done.

Caesar salad preparing sauce

7. Meanwhile, make the sauce. Place anchovies in a blender glass, chop finely and add garlic there. At low speed, chop the garlic and anchovy. Add mayonnaise and grind this whole mass.

Do not beat with a blender for a long time, otherwise you will begin to separate the mayonnaise into oil and other ingredients. We need our whole mayonnaise. We obtain a homogeneous mass of sauce.

8. We cut the salad like we cut cabbage, and then collect the chopped feathers in a pile and cut them in half so that they are not very long.

9. Our mushrooms are ready, set aside.

10. Cut the chicken breast into strips, approximately the same length as the lettuce leaves.

It's time to collect the salad

11. Place the chopped salad on a cold plate, place pieces of chicken breast on top, add mushrooms to them and cover everything with lettuce leaves.

12. Put crackers into the salad.

13. Add our sauce to the center, expect 4 servings.

14. Decorate with eggs and serve.

Note: the photo shows a larger number of ingredients, as they cooked there for a large number of people. I specifically gave you the most common quantity for 4 servings. It's much more convenient and clearer.

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1. Classic Caesar salad recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 small head of romaine lettuce
• Baguette (bread) - half
• Parmesan cheese - 20 g.
• olive oil
• Garlic - 1 clove

For the sauce:

• Olive oil - 100 ml.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
• Anchovy fillet - 2 pcs.
• Mustard - 1 tsp.
• Worcestershire sauce - 1/2 tsp.

Preparation:

1. Cut the baguette into medium pieces. Place the pan on medium heat. pour a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, put a crushed clove of garlic in the oil, heat it up. A pleasant garlic aroma floated up, remove the garlic and pour in the sliced ​​bread. Fry until golden brown.

When the crackers begin to brown, add a little salt to give them a better taste. When they are well browned, remove from heat and set aside to cool. Stir all the time and watch the crackers. They can burn out very quickly.

2. Place the egg in a small container and pour boiling water over it. Hold for exactly 1 minute, pour out the boiling water, and pour cold water into the egg to stop the cooking process.

3. Take the egg out of the water and break it into a blender cup, add 2 peeled cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 100 ml. olive oil, try to use the highest quality oil, 1 tsp. mustard, regular, plain mustard, without grains or other additives, 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce and 2 anchovy fillets.

We don't add salt, we have salted anchovies. After whipping, you can try and add salt, beat a little again. Beat until smooth.

4. Tear the lettuce leaves into a plate with your hands, pour out some of the sauce and mix.

5. Lay out as many crackers as we like, sprinkle with grated cheese and mix again.

6. Pour the remaining sauce, you can pour less, to taste, decorate the top with breadcrumbs and cut into thin slices, you can use a potato peeler and cheese.

All. Our salad is ready.

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1. Caesar salad recipe with photos step by step

Ingredients:

• Romaine lettuce - 1
• Bun - 5-6 pieces
• Olive oil
• A piece of Parmesan cheese, which we will grate extra
• Cherry tomatoes

Preparation:

1. We disassemble the romaine lettuce into leaves; of course, you can replace it with iceberg lettuce, but it’s not the same.

2. Wash the leaves, let them drain through a sieve, dry them thoroughly with napkins and put them in the refrigerator. The salad is assembled before serving. By this point, our leaves should be clean, dry and cool.

3. Slice the bread, maybe from yesterday’s bun. It will even be better if the bread is a little dry. If the crust is hard, it must be cut off; if it is soft, then it is not necessary. Piece sizes to suit your taste.

4. Crackers can be prepared in two ways: in the oven and in a frying pan. We chose the first method, as it turns out to be less caloric.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the sliced ​​bread on the parchment. Sprinkle with olive oil and place in an oven preheated to 200°-210° for about 5-7 minutes, until the crackers are golden brown.

5. Crackers are ready. Set aside and let cool.

Prepare Caesar salad sauce.

We will need the following main ingredients:

• Eggs - 2 small or 1 large
• lemon - 1 pc.
• Freshly grated hard Parmesan cheese - 20-30 g (about 2 tbsp)
• Olive oil - 160 ml.

Additional:

• Not spicy mustard - 1 tbsp.
• Fish sauce - 1/2 tsp.
• Red wine vinegar or other - 1 tbsp.
• Worcestershire sauce - 1 tbsp.
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp.
• Sugar - 1 tsp.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Hot Tabasco pepper - a few drops
• Mixture of oregano and basil herbs - 1/2 tsp.

Additionally, you can add half a head of mild onion or scald the onion with boiling water and 1-2 cloves of garlic. Invest according to your taste. If you don't want the sharp taste of garlic, roast it a little.

If you have them from the refrigerator, place the eggs in warm water, but it is best to remove them from the refrigerator in advance, at least half an hour before cooking. They should be at room temperature.

1. After they have warmed up, lower them into boiling water for exactly 1 minute.

2. After a minute, take it out and immediately put it in cold water to stop the cooking process.

Beat the ingredients with a blender

3. Finely chop the onion and garlic and put it in a blender,

chop.

4. Add a tablespoon of mild mustard to the blender. If yours is spicy, add half a tablespoon, or even a teaspoon. Once mixed, you can taste it and add more if necessary.

5. Add half a teaspoon of fish sauce or 1 anchovy there. If you don't have this, skip this step, no problem.

6. A tablespoon of red wine vinegar.

7. A tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce. If you don't have it, buy it, you won't regret it. This sauce is good in almost any, especially vegetable salads. Always useful.

8. A tablespoon of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of sugar. Add a few drops of hot pepper - Tabasco or chili, to taste.

9. A pinch of a mixture of oregano and basil herbs and a little ground black pepper. It's best straight from the mill so it's freshly ground. We break everything down to a homogeneous mass.

We continue to prepare the sauce.

10. Break the eggs into a blender with our mixture. Look at the yolk, it’s raw; around the yolk the white has set a little, and the white of the shell is quite dense. Scoop out the whites and also add them to the blender cup. Beat everything again into a homogeneous mass.

11. Place an immersion blender at the bottom of the bowl and pour olive oil into the bowl. We don’t lift the blender; it stands at the bottom of the bowl, and in short bursts we begin to blend the mixture. After some time, when the mixture begins to form, we carefully begin to lift and lower the blender. When there is no visible oil left in the bowl, you can use the blender freely. Just whisk the sauce.

12. Beat for about 3-5 minutes and the sauce is ready. In terms of thickness, it is approximately like light mayonnaise. At this point you can taste the sauce and add what you are missing, salt, sugar, mustard, etc.

13. Pour the sauce over the grated hard Parmesan cheese. Stir thoroughly and now our sauce is finally ready. There was quite a lot of sauce, enough for several servings. If you don’t use it all up, you can store it in the refrigerator, but no more than 3 days.

Assembling the salad

14. Assemble the salad, as we have already said, just before serving. We tear the salad with our hands into medium leaves.

16. Add crackers. Mix.

17. Grate the cheese. Mix again.

18. Place on a serving plate. Top with a little more sauce, some croutons and a little grated Parmesan.

Decorate with cherry tomatoes and sprinkle with a little cheese. Serve immediately.

Bon appetit!

1. 1. Video - Caesar salad with chicken

6. Caesar salad with shrimp classic simple recipe

Ingredients:

• Iceberg lettuce (if you can't find romaine) - 1 head
• Shrimp - 1 kg.
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Olive oil - 4 tbsp.
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
• Hard cheese - 200 g.
• Quail eggs - 15 pcs.
• Cherry tomatoes - 15 pcs.
• Loaf - 1 pc.
• Pepper
• Caesar sauce -

Preparation:

1. We start by cleaning the shrimp. When you remove the shell, pay attention to the black vein running along the ridge, remove that too.

2. Place the shrimp in a deep salad bowl and use a garlic press to squeeze a clove of garlic into the shrimp. Pepper with a mixture of five peppers from the mill or whatever pepper you have.

3. Squeeze 2 tbsp juice from lemon into shrimp.

4. Add olive oil.

5. Mix everything and set aside for the shrimp to marinate.

6. Prepare crackers. Cut the loaf into small cubes.

7. Pour a little, literally a couple of tablespoons of olive oil into the frying pan.

8. Squeeze a clove of garlic into the oil.

9. Fry the garlic a little.

10. Add sliced ​​bread.

11. Fry until golden brown.

Frying shrimp

12. Place the shrimp in a frying pan, stirring constantly until they turn pink. Fry for just a few minutes.

13. Place the finished shrimp on a plate to cool.

14. Cut the salad. That's it, all the ingredients are ready, all that remains is to prepare the sauce and assemble the salad.

For the sauce we need:

• Egg - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp.
• Mustard - 2 tsp.
• Parmesan cheese - 2 tsp.
• Olive or, in extreme cases, sunflower oil - 150 ml.
• Anchovy - 3 pcs.
• Pinch of salt, black pepper

Preparation:

1. Crush the garlic with the flat side of the knife and chop. Place the garlic in a blender cup.

2. Cut the anchovies crosswise into 3-4 pieces and add them to the garlic.

3. Break the egg and lemon juice into it.

4. Add 2 tsp. mustard. A pinch of salt.

5. Parmesan cheese and lower the blender.

6. Place the blender on the bottom and pour in the oil.

7. Beat the mixture for several minutes. First, without lifting the blender, and after the white mass appears, we begin to gradually raise and lower, and then beat freely until it becomes thick.

8. Our sauce is ready.

9. We begin to collect the salad. Place lettuce leaves on a serving plate and place several shrimp on them.

11. Use a vegetable cutter to cut plastic cheese. Garnish with halved eggs and chopped cherry tomatoes.

Sprinkle crackers on top. Very beautiful and tasty.

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1. 1. 1. Video - Caesar salad with shrimp

1. Caesar salad with chicken and tomatoes

You and I will make this salad for just 1 serving, as a sample. So you can add or subtract something somewhere.

Ingredients:

• Romaine lettuce (I used iceberg) - 200 g.
• Chicken fillet or breast
• Cherry tomatoes
• Parmesan cheese

For crackers:

• White bread or loaf
• Garlic
• Olive oil

For the sauce:

• Egg - 1 pc.
• Juice of half a small lemon
• Grated Parmesan cheese
• Olive oil - 50 ml.
• Mustard is not very bitter - 1 tbsp.
• Salt pepper

Preparation:

1. Take two pieces of loaf and cut off the crust.

2. Cut the loaf into cubes.

3. Place in a dry frying pan, place on the stove and turn on the lowest temperature, just so that the pieces of bread dry out a little.

4. Place another frying pan on the fire, pour a little oil and heat it up. Cut the chicken into fairly large pieces and place in hot oil.

5. Turn over, salt and pepper.

Boil an egg

6. Place a saucepan with a small amount of water on the fire. The water has boiled, put the egg in there for exactly 1 minute. The stove can be turned off. After a minute, take out the egg and immediately lower it into cold water to stop the cooking process.

7. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into a separate cup. You can cut it in half and squeeze it with your hands.

8. Grate the cheese, literally 2 spoons.

9. Break the egg into a blender cup. The yolk turned out runny, but the white set a little, which is what we wanted.

10. Start whisking, after a minute add a little salt and pepper, and pour lemon juice through a strainer. To prevent lemon seeds from getting into the sauce. We continue to beat.

11. Add grated cheese and mustard. Whisk everything again.

12. Continuing to beat, add olive oil in a thin stream. The sauce should have the consistency of liquid sour cream.

13. Meanwhile, the pieces of bread have already dried, we will fry them. Place a clove of crushed garlic in a hot frying pan with oil. As soon as the garlic has browned a little, remove it from the pan and add our croutons there.

14. The crackers will instantly absorb the garlic oil and fry. Watch and stir all the time so that they don’t burn.

15. Place the crackers on a paper towel to absorb excess oil. Unfortunately, we didn’t pay close attention and our crackers got a little burnt. Well, it’s okay, we’ll choose better.

16. We begin to prepare and assemble the salad. Tear the iceberg lettuce into fairly large pieces with your hands.

17. Our chicken has also already cooled down, cut it into small cubes and put it on the salad.

18. Rub the cheese with thin plastics. Some graters have this special side. If you don't have it, shred the cheese with a vegetable peeler.

19. Add cheese to the salad. Some people prefer grated, others cut into slices. At your discretion.

20. Lay out the selected crackers.

22. Cut cherry tomatoes in half and place on top of the salad.

Salad ready. Try it immediately.

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1. A simple classic recipe for Caesar salad with chicken

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 200 g.
• Salad - 150-200 g.
• Tomato - 1 pc.
• Lemon - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Salt pepper
• Hard-boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
• Bread - 200-300 g. Rusks are never superfluous.
• Mayonnaise
• Mustard
• Vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. First, prepare the garlic butter. Grate one clove on a fine grater into a deep, small cup.

2. Add 2 tsp to the garlic. vegetable oil. Mix everything, set aside, let the oil soak in the smell of garlic.

3. Cut the chicken breast lengthwise to make it thinner, add salt and pepper.

4. Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the chicken breast and fry until golden brown on both sides.

5. Cut off the crusts of the bread.

6. Cut into cubes with sides approximately 1-1.5 cm. You need to dry or fry the crackers. You can do this in any way convenient for you. Dry in the oven, fry in a frying pan or in the microwave. I like them fried in a pan in garlic butter.

7. Prepare salad sauce. Pour 1 tbsp into a larger deep cup. vegetable oil.

8. Add 1 tsp. mayonnaise, if you like, is optional.

9. Squeeze out about 1 tsp. mustard. Add finely chopped garlic and squeeze lemon juice to taste. Approximately 1-2 tbsp.

10. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything well and set the sauce aside to infuse.

11. Slice the chicken breast.

12. Cut one egg into large pieces.

13. Cut the second egg into 4 parts.

14. Three cheese on a fine grater.

15. Cut the tomato into slices.

16. Add a little garlic butter without garlic to the prepared crackers, about 2 tsp. Mix the crackers well with the butter.

We have prepared all the ingredients and are starting to assemble the salad.

17. Tear lettuce leaves into a deep cup with your hands.

18. Lay out the chicken breast. We also send chopped eggs here.

20. Place the salad on the dish on which we will serve it.

21. Place egg quarters and tomato slices on top of the salad.

22. Add a little salt to the salad, add croutons and grated cheese.

Our simple salad, without the use of any complex or hard-to-find ingredients, is ready. It must be served immediately.

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1. 1. Video - Delicious salad with salmon

1. Caesar salad with salmon and tomatoes

Simple salad. I will no longer show you all the photos step by step. You already know everything.

Ingredients:

• Baguette – 1/2
• Olive oil - 3 tbsp.
• Salmon or trout fillet - 300 g.
• Cherry tomatoes - 300 g.
• Salad - 1 large head
• Parmesan, grated or shaved with a vegetable peeler

For refueling:

• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Chicken egg yolks - 2 large
• Dijon mustard - 1 tbsp.
• Worcestershire sauce - 1/2 tsp.
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
• Olive oil - 3 tbsp.
• Salt pepper

Preparation:

1. Separate the head of lettuce into individual leaves, rinse well with cold water and dry with paper towels.

2. Cut the baguette into cubes with a side of approximately 1-1.5 cm.

3. Pour 2 tbsp onto a baking sheet. olive oil, add baguette pieces and mix with butter.

4. Place the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 200° and bake for 8-10 minutes. It is necessary to stir several times during this time so that the crackers fry evenly.

5. While the crackers are being prepared, heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Salt and pepper the salmon fillet to taste. Place in a hot frying pan and fry until done on both sides, about 3 minutes on each side.

We are preparing the dressing.

6. Crush the garlic using a garlic clove or three on a very fine grater. Place in a small, deep cup.

7. Add yolks, mustard, lemon juice and Worcestershire (Worcestershire) sauce.

8. Continuously whisking, pour in 3 tbsp in a thin stream. olive oil. You should get a mixture similar to mayonnaise.

9. Cut the tomatoes into halves or quarters, depending on the size and your desire.

10. Tear the lettuce leaves into pieces with your hands and put them in a salad bowl.

11. Cut the fish into slices and add it to the salad along with the tomatoes.

12. Pour over the sauce, sprinkle croutons and Parmesan cheese on top.

We serve at the table.

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1. Caesar salad with ham

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 400 g.
• Ham sausage, we have two varieties, chicken and beef - 300 g.
• Hard cheese - 150-170 g.
• Tomato - 2 medium
• Eggs - 5-7 pcs.
• Greenery
• Purchased crackers - 1 pack (100-120 g)
• Iceberg lettuce - half a head
• Mayonnaise - 1 glass
• Garlic - 6-8 cloves
• Salt pepper

Preparation:

1. Cut the breast into small thin pieces. Beat until the pieces become very thin. Salt and pepper.

2. Set the frying pan to warm up.

3. While the frying pan is heating up, we take mayonnaise and squeeze 5-7 cloves of garlic into it, mix and set aside. Let it soak.

4. Generously pour vegetable oil into the frying pan, let it heat up for a couple of minutes and lay out the breast pieces.

5. Prepare a paper towel-lined plate ahead of time for the finished breast.

6. Place the breast without any breading. Be prepared for some pretty heavy splashes of oil on the stove. Take a closer look at the breast. The surface is slightly pinkish in color.

7. When the surface becomes almost completely white, see the photo, the arrows indicate the parts that have already turned white, and those in the mug are still pink, then the breast should be turned over to the other side and, after frying a little more, removed from the pan and placed on a pre-prepared plate with a paper towel, so that excess oil is absorbed.

Be careful not to dry out the meat, otherwise the salad will not be very tasty.

8. Cut the chicken and ham into strips, like our croutons.

9. We also cut the cheese into strips.

10. Place the chopped meat in a deep cup, and add the chopped cheese there.

11. Peel the eggs, cut them into halves and cut into strips

and we also put them in a cup with meat and cheese.

12. Pour the crackers in there.

13. Cut the tomatoes into pieces, where it turns out - into strips

and put it in the salad.

14. Cut iceberg lettuce into large pieces. You can tear it with your hands, as you prefer.

and of course we also add it to the salad.

15. Take greens: parsley, dill, green onions, a little of everything and chop finely. Add to salad.

16. Mix everything carefully with your hands.

18. We didn’t think there was enough mayonnaise, so we added a little more straight from the pack.

19. Mix everything again, the salad is ready, all that remains is to put it on plates.

Well, our salad is fully decorated. Get started.

Bon appetit!

1. 1. Video - Caesar salad with salmon

1. 1. Video - Caesar with shrimp and salmon

I showed you several recipes for Caesar salad, each of them with its own twist. Cook what you like. Original Caesar, this is recipe No. 1, either with chicken, or with shrimp, or with fish and enjoy. If you have time between meals, please rate my work. There's a place down there. It's called comments. Thank you.

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The world-famous Caesar salad has been delighting residents of America and Europe for almost a century. This wonderful salad came to us not so long ago, but has already become a sincere favorite. In this article from MirSovetov we will talk about how to prepare Caesar - a salad that can compete even with the much-loved Olivier.
By the way, we all know the history of the creation of the aforementioned Olivier salad - unexpected and even emergency events contributed to the birth of a brilliant recipe. Likewise, the history of the creation of Caesar salad is based on a force majeure situation. Some believe that Caesar salad is somehow connected with the legendary Gaius Julius, but although the salad bears the name of its creator, it has nothing to do with the famous Roman emperor. But first things first...

From the history of salad

Oddly enough, we owe the appearance of Caesar salad to Hollywood filmmakers. On the Independence Day of the United States in 1924, they, overwhelmed by patriotic feelings, really wanted to raise a glass to the independence of their country, and they went to do this in the small Mexican town of Tijuana, because Prohibition was in effect in the States at that time. The choice of place for the movie-makers' party fell on the restaurant "Caesar's" (as Caesar Cardini, an American of Italian descent, simply named his establishment). On that historic day for world cuisine, the bar of the Cardini restaurant was full of a variety of drinks, but the supplies in the kitchen were simply extremely deplorable. The shops and stores nearby were already closed, so there was nowhere to expect replenishments of food, and then Caesar Cardini decided to mix everything he had, in the hope that he would get some kind of passable snack. In one bowl, pre-rubbed with garlic, he mixed toasted bread slices, soft-boiled eggs, Parmesan cheese, lettuce, herbs, and added olive oil and lemon juice. To Caesar’s boundless surprise, his salad was received with “Hurray!”
From that very day, the triumphant march of Caesar salad around the world began. At first, people went to Tijuana specifically to try the salad, and then the salad itself became widespread. Many variations on the “Caesar” theme were created, by the way, the very first of which belonged to the hand of Caesar’s brother Alex. He added some anchovies to the salad dressing, which gave the dish a subtle fishy flavor. Alex named his creation “Aviator Salad” - of course, in his name, since Alex was a pilot in the First World War.
Today there are a huge variety of Caesar salad recipes. To the main ingredients you can add chicken, ham, herring, tuna, cucumbers, bell peppers, nuts, olives... you can go on and on. Therefore, at this stage we will stop and turn to the recipe itself.

Ingredients for Caesar salad

So, today with MirSovetov we are preparing Caesar salad with chicken and cherry tomatoes.

Ingredients:

• 1 head watercress or romaine lettuce
• 2 chicken breasts,
• 300 grams of white bread,
• 4-5 cloves of garlic,
• 2 yolks,
• 2 tablespoons mustard,
• 2 spoons of mayonnaise,
• 50 ml dry white wine,
• 150 ml,
• 30 ml vegetable oil,
• juice of one lemon,
• 100 grams of Parmesan cheese,
• 6-7 pieces of cherry tomatoes,
• salt, black pepper to taste,
• breadcrumbs.

Cooking chicken

MirSovetov draws your attention to the fact that chicken prepared according to the described method is nothing more than a perfect schnitzel. A hot piece of breast, decorated with a suitable set, will undoubtedly delight schnitzel connoisseurs! And for Caesar salad, the poultry pieces must be cooled at room temperature:

Making croutons

Croutons are commonly called croutons. The choice of bread type for croutons is entirely up to your taste. However, in any case, it must be emphasized that dried out, stale bread is not suitable for croutons, and even more so there is no need to use ready-made crackers for Caesar salad, which are multiplied in huge quantities by a wide variety of manufacturers, as a snack for beer.
This recipe uses fresh white “toast” bread for the croutons.

Next, add a clove of finely chopped garlic and black pepper to 50 ml of olive oil. The oil needs to sit for half an hour to take on the aroma of garlic:



In an oven preheated to 200 degrees, dry the bread for 3-5 minutes. It is very important that the bread does not turn into hard crackers, but only has a crispy crust and a soft core:

MirSovetov would like to draw your attention to the fact that if you dry the bread to the condition of croutons, then the resulting croutons are an ideal addition to pureed cereal soups, especially those with smoked meats.

Preparing the sauce and dressing the salad

We have reached the final stage of preparing the Caesar salad; this stage is also the most critical.
So, let's prepare the sauce. In a mixer, mix egg yolks, mustard, wine, lemon juice, and a clove of finely chopped garlic.
Next, without turning off the mixer, add 100 ml of olive oil in a thin stream and gradually add 50 grams of grated Parmesan cheese. The sauce is ready.
Rub the sides of the salad bowl with garlic and tear the lettuce leaves into it.

Various greens can be cut into a dish when served directly: greens cut with a knife give juice. For this reason, greens are also cut for those dishes in which the juiciness of the greens is important, for example, for okroshka. If it is expected that the dish will “stand” for some time, then it is better to tear the greens with your hands, this way they retain freshness longer.

Add half the breadcrumbs, half the remaining Parmesan and half the fried chicken, cut into strips. Pour in half the sauce and mix carefully. Wooden spatulas are best suited for this:

Now put the salad on a serving plate, place the remaining chicken and breadcrumbs on top in random order, pour in the rest of the dressing and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. The final touch is to decorate the salad with cherry tomato halves:

This recipe does not claim to be a classic and leaves room for the realization of your limitless culinary fantasies. Experiment with both ingredients and

The combination of chicken breast, Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lettuce, tomato slices, and garlic makes Caesar salad a complete healthy food. This hearty snack is presented prepared in various versions, on which its calorie content and the content of BJU in the composition depend.

History of the dish

Appearing at the behest of the imagination of the restaurateur Caesar Cardini, named after him, a simple dish made from improvised products (eggs, lettuce leaves, seasoned with lemon juice, olive oil with garlic, Parmesan, croutons, sauce) was liked by all the eaters who tried it. Caesar salad was first made in a small restaurant on the border between America and Mexico in the early 19th century.

The success of the dish is the merit of its signature sauce; the composition of the classic Caesar salad is quite simple: lettuce, toasted bread, Parmesan cheese.

Thanks to its lightness and balanced taste, Caesar has gained worldwide popularity. European, American, and now Russian chefs are offering new interpretations of the famous taste, including anchovies, nuts, ham, herring or pike perch fillets, cucumbers, shrimp and other ingredients in the snack. Our favorite is Caesar salad with chicken.

Classic recipes for Caesar salad with chicken

Available ingredients and the absence of any special difficulties in cooking technology will allow you to enjoy your favorite taste by preparing this classic simple recipe with a photo at home in the kitchen. The cooking process can be made easier if you choose a ready-made sauce for the salad.

Traditional Caesar salad

Product selection:

• chicken breast fillet – 200 gr.;
• butter – 30 gr.;
• white loaf – 200 gr.;
• head/bunch of lettuce;
• tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
• parmesan / any cheese – 50 gr.;
• garlic;
• chicken seasoning;
• Caesar sauce.

How to cook:

1. Melt the butter and add the crushed clove of garlic to the pan.
2. Fry the chicken fillet until cooked, after cutting it into strips 1 cm thick and sprinkling with seasoning. Place on a napkin to remove excess oil.
3. Cut into cubes and fry the bread croutons until golden brown in the same oil with a fresh clove of garlic. Place on a napkin.
4. To serve you will need a wide flat plate. “Cover” its bottom with hand-torn lettuce leaves. Next, lay out the chicken fillet and sliced ​​tomatoes. Season generously with the prepared sauce, sprinkle with finely grated cheese, and garnish with bread croutons.

To make Caesar salad special and magically delicious, we will tell you the secret of preparing it at home.

The best Caesar recipe

Required products:

• 1 chicken fillet – about 400 g;
• fresh salad leaves - a bunch;
• small fresh cherry tomatoes - 1 sprig;
• half a white loaf;
• cheese (ideal if Parmesan) – 50 gr.;
• garlic – 3 cloves;
• olive oil – 100 gr.;
• egg - 2 chicken or 5 quail;
• lemon – ½ piece;
• ready mustard - 2 tsp.

Cooking secrets:

Classic sauce

Boil and cool the eggs. No protein needed. Carefully place the yolks, chopped garlic cloves, and mustard. Add lemon juice, then 50 gr. olive oil, stir until smooth. It is best to prepare the sauce with a blender, then you will be able to get the desired “mayonnaise” consistency.

Juicy chicken breast

Cut the breast fillet (washed) into layers lengthwise about 0.5 cm thick, add salt. Grease and heat the saucepan. Fry the strips for 8 minutes until crispy. In order for the chicken to turn out juicy, it is important not to overcook it on the fire, but also not to leave it raw. Cut the finished strips into medium pieces across the grain.

“Garlic” flavored croutons

Cut the loaf into bars or cubes, first cutting off the hard crusts. Grease and heat the pan. Fry the clove of garlic, cut into slices, until an appetizing aroma appears (2-3 minutes), remove it. Place the loaf pieces into the heated frying pan, being careful not to brush away any crumbs that have formed. Stirring, fry them until a beautiful golden color.

Effective presentation

Tear large lettuce leaves onto a plate. Brush a little (add drops) with sauce. Place chicken and bread crumbs on top. Decorate with sauce (drops/stripes/zigzag, etc.). Sprinkle with grated Parmesan and arrange the halved tomatoes.

Caesar salad with chicken is best served immediately, before the croutons and lettuce leaves lose their crispness.

Caesar salad with croutons and chicken

The experiments of cooks and housewives with recipes for this snack amaze with their diversity; there are more than two dozen versions with chicken alone. We invite you to try a spicy interpretation of the famous dish.

Caesar with smoked chicken and croutons

Salad ingredients:

• smoked chicken fillet – 1 pc.;
• head of lettuce ( / romaine);
• Parmesan (or other available hard cheese) – 70 gr.;
• white loaf for crackers – 200 gr.;
• olive oil – 30 gr.;
• fresh garlic – 2 cloves;

For the dressing sauce:

• egg yolks (boiled) – 1 pc.;
• Oil, ideally olive – 50 g;
• mustard paste – 1 tsp;
• lemon juice – 2 tbsp;
• clove of garlic.

We prepare in stages:

1. Lightly dry the loaf slices on a baking sheet, grate with garlic, cut into cubes, and dry until tender.
2. For the dressing sauce, whisk all ingredients, first chopping the garlic. Add salt and pepper to your taste.
3. Cut the smoked fillet into thin slices, grate the cheese, wash the water, and tear the dried lettuce leaves into pieces.
4. Arrange the salad on a platter in layers: lettuce leaves, chicken meat, cheese, dried croutons. After placing the sauce in a cooking bag, draw a “net” on top of the dish.

We recommend using hard, crisp lettuce leaves (iceberg, romaine). With them, the salad will retain its taste and shape longer, which is especially important for holiday feasts.

Those who tried it for the first time in a restaurant, but have never prepared Caesar salad at home, are surprised by the simplicity of the ingredients in the recipes. By choosing quality products: the freshest chicken breast, crispy non-soggy lettuce leaves, cold-pressed oil, a delicious white loaf, aromatic garlic and lemon, you can prepare your favorite dish even tastier than in a cafe.

Caesar with chicken, croutons and fried bacon

• boiled chicken fillet – a couple of pieces;
• thinly sliced ​​bacon - 200 g package;
• white bread – 4 slices;
• a small bunch of lettuce leaves;
• parmesan – 30 gr.;
• olive mayonnaise – 200 gr.;
• butter – 30 gr.;
• juice from ½ lemon;
• garlic;
• ground pepper, salt.

Cooking method:

Dip a couple of medium cloves of garlic, cut into slices, into vegetable oil and leave to brew. Boil the chicken breast. Tear it into long pieces with your hands. Cut the bacon into strips 5 mm wide and fry in a frying pan (dry).

Slice the bread for croutons. Sprinkle the cubes with garlic oil and fry until golden brown. Tear the salad into large petals. Grate the cheese. Prepare the sauce: mix mayonnaise, lemon juice, a couple of grated cloves of garlic.

In a deep bowl, combine chicken, bacon, lettuce and croutons, season with sauce, taste for salt, sprinkle with cheese, and serve immediately.

The recipe for Caesar salad is varied, tasty, simple, and inexpensive. Prepare Caesar, loved without exaggeration by millions of people. You will surely like it, surprising you with the harmonious combination of flavors of leafy greens, tender chicken, homemade garlic croutons, spicy cheese and signature dressing-sauce.

The Caesar salad takes its name in honor of the name of its creator, the culinary specialist Caesar Cardini. One fine day he decided to cook his signature dish, but suddenly discovered that he did not have the necessary ingredients for this. But there was still something in stock, so, after thinking a little, he created a separate dish, which then came to us as the classic Caesar salad, which is now loved by both adults and children.

We buy ingredients for the salad

There are a huge number of varieties of Caesar. However, regardless of whether we prepare a classic Caesar salad with shrimp, chicken, feta cheese, avocado, turkey, ham, fish or any other main component, the remaining ingredients remain the same. Therefore, if you do not want, like Cardini, to suddenly discover that it is impossible to prepare the desired dish, you should go to the store in advance and purchase the necessary ingredients there.

You will need a regular white loaf, cherry tomatoes, parmesan cheese for sprinkling, leaves, and fresh chicken fillet to prepare a classic chicken Caesar salad or any other ingredient you crave in this dish. But to prepare the sauce - an integral part of the dish, you will have to purchase chicken eggs, mustard, garlic, lemon and olive oil. Well, every housewife probably already has salt and pepper, but if they run out, then, naturally, they will also have to be purchased.

General salad recipe

After purchasing all the ingredients and choosing the variety of classic Caesar salad that you want to try, you can safely start preparing the dish. It doesn’t matter which component will be the main one in Caesar, the general principle of preparing this dish is always the same and understandable to the cook. So, to create a dish and sauce for it you will need:

• one head of lettuce;
• 1 baguette or white loaf per 200 grams;
• 100 grams of cherry tomatoes, but other tomatoes will do;
• 50 grams of Parmesan, but any other hard cheese will do;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 150 ml olive oil;
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice;
• 1 tablespoon mustard;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• pepper and salt to your taste.

The last component of the classic Caesar salad, be it shrimp, mushrooms, or anything else, we always take in the amount of 200 grams. Then we simply combine torn leaves of green salad, croutons made from a loaf of bread and a completely ready-to-eat main component of the dish. After this, pour the sauce made from olive oil, lemon juice, mustard and egg yolks over the finished dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and serve the dish.

Preparing croutons for salad

It doesn’t matter whether you’re preparing a classic, simple Caesar salad with shrimp, chicken, bacon, mushrooms, or any other main ingredient, the first step in preparing the dish is to make crispy and flavorful croutons from the purchased loaf. To do this, you need to cut off all the crusts from the bread, and then cut it into small cubes. Next, prepare the sauce that will be poured over the crackers, for which we crush 1 clove of garlic with a knife and pour in three tablespoons of olive oil. After this, the composition should be heated in the microwave for 20 seconds, and you can pour it over the crackers, which you then put in the oven and dry for half an hour at a temperature of 150 ° C.

Preparing chicken fillet for salad

Most often, novice cooks prepare a classic Caesar salad recipe at home, the main component of which is chicken. Before cooking, chicken fillet should be thoroughly rinsed in running water and then dried with a paper towel. After this, the meat is cut lengthwise into 2-3 parts, salted on both sides and placed in a frying pan. Fry the chicken fillet until golden brown, which will take about 7-8 minutes. At the final stage of preparation, the chicken will have to be cooled to room temperature, and then cut into cubes or small slices - at your discretion.

Preparing shrimp for salad

Of all types of dishes, seafood lovers prefer the classic simple recipe for Caesar salad with shrimp. But before mixing with the rest of the ingredients, the seafood needs to be prepared. To do this, 200-300 grams of shrimp purchased in a supermarket or market should first be boiled in salted water for three minutes. After that, we peel them from the shell, put them in a bowl with olive oil and garlic and marinate for half an hour. At the final stage, before adding the ingredient to the salad, all that remains is to fry the shrimp over low heat for a minute so that they become a pleasant golden color.

Prepare romaine lettuce for adding to the dish

The most important ingredients in a classic, simple Caesar salad recipe are the lettuce leaves. The most commonly used leaves for this dish are romaine lettuce, but iceberg lettuce will also work. At the very beginning of preparation, you will need to thoroughly rinse the bunch of lettuce under running water and then leave to dry for 10 minutes. After this, the lettuce leaves need to be torn into large pieces and placed in ice water, so that they will not wither and will have a pleasant crunch while eating.

Preparing the dressing sauce

It doesn't matter whether we prepare a classic Caesar salad with chicken or with bacon, seafood or anything else - its most important ingredient is the sauce that is poured over the dish before serving. The first step is to bring the eggs to room temperature, for which you need to either remove them from the refrigerator a couple of hours before cooking, or put them in warm water for 10 minutes. Then boil the eggs for a minute, cool and separate their yolks from the whites.

After this, we begin to prepare the sauce for the classic Caesar salad. To do this, finely chop the garlic with a knife or crush it using a garlic press, and then grind it together with two yolks and mustard until smooth. After this, add the juice squeezed out of lemon and a small amount of salt to the dry mass, and at the end, gradually pour the remaining olive oil into the container, which will make the dressing liquid. The main thing is to constantly stir the sauce during cooking, and then the result will be simply magical.

How to properly decorate and serve a dish

Another very important aspect of creating a Caesar salad according to the classic recipe is its design and serving. To do everything correctly, you should lay out all the prepared ingredients in the right sequence. First comes a layer of crispy torn lettuce leaves, then a layer of a mixture of croutons and chicken or any other component (shrimp, bacon, mushrooms, feta cheese and the like), which can either be mixed together or laid out in a checkerboard pattern. The third layer is hard cheese, which is grated on a coarse grater directly above the dish. And finally, the dish is decorated with cherry tomatoes cut in half or slices of regular tomatoes.

Caesar salad with chicken and shrimp

As you can see, preparing Caesar salad at home according to the classic recipe is not difficult even for novice cooks. It’s also easy to prepare all sorts of variations of the recipe, the most common of which is to create this dish with chicken and shrimp together. To prepare it, you will need the same ingredients as for a regular Caesar salad, but there should be 150 grams of chicken fillet, and 100 grams of peeled shrimp. The process of preparing the dish is also identical to the classic recipe. The only thing is that in this case, when serving, the second layer will be chicken and shrimp, then the sauce is poured over the food, and the cheese is grated on it and croutons are placed on it. In this case, there is no need to add tomatoes.

Caesar salad with any additives

Having learned how to prepare Caesar salad with shrimp using a classic simple recipe, you can make this dish with any other additives. The main thing is to prepare them so that they are completely suitable for consumption without further processing. That is, mushrooms, fish should be boiled and fried, feta should be cut into large cubes, bacon should be cut... There are simply no limits to imagination. It is important that the amount of these additives is approximately equal to the amount of croutons and green salad, then the dish will be balanced and will please even the most picky gourmets.

Economical classic Caesar salad

It happens that there is simply no money for the most important ingredient of the salad, or there is a fast on the street and then you cannot eat shrimp, chicken, or any other meat or seafood. But this is not at all a reason to refuse your favorite dish, which can be prepared without any problems without this component. It’s just that in this case you will have to transform the classic Caesar salad recipe quite a bit. We will need:

• 400 grams of romaine or iceberg lettuce leaves;
• 100 grams of loaf;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 50 grams of olive oil;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce;
• 1 tablespoon of grated hard cheese;
• pepper and salt to taste.

The first step is to tear the lettuce leaves and prepare croutons from bread toasted in the oven. Then you can start preparing the dish, for which you will first need to rub the bowl with garlic, and then put lettuce leaves on it, which must first be sprinkled with olive oil. Next, the lettuce leaves are moistened with Caesar salad sauce, which is prepared in the standard way, and a layer of croutons and grated cheese is placed on it. The salad is decorated with chopped boiled egg.

Quick Caesar salad

If it so happens that you don’t have time to prepare a classic simple Caesar salad with chicken or seafood, then this recipe can be slightly transformed and you can whip up your favorite dish. You will be able to save time due to the fact that you will not have to fry croutons in the oven, but will immediately buy ready-made ones in the supermarket - either regular ones or with different flavors (from garlic to hunting sausages), so that everyone can choose this ingredient at their own discretion. Yes, and the sauce in the salad can be replaced with regular mayonnaise. For such a dish, you just need to cook the chicken by frying it in a frying pan, and then put all the ingredients together and pour the salad with store-bought mayonnaise, which, of course, is better to take with a lower percentage of fat content.

Rolls with Caesar salad

If you are already tired of the classic recipe for Caesar salad with shrimp, chicken or any other additives, you can try preparing this dish in an unusual variation in the form of rolls. You can take this snack with you for a snack or put it on the table, which it will decorate due to its unusual nature. So, to prepare the rolls you will need:

• thin sheet of lavash;
• 150 grams of lettuce leaves;
• 200 grams of chicken fillet, shrimp or any other additives;
• 100 grams of juicy tomatoes;
• 50 grams of hard cheese;
• 4 tablespoons olive oil;
• 150 grams of homemade mayonnaise or natural yogurt without flavoring;
• 20 grams of capers;
• 20 grams of mustard;
• 60 grams of anchovies;
• 20 grams of olives.

To prepare the rolls, first of all you will need to boil or grill the chicken fillet, and then, after cooling it, cut it into small pieces. To prepare rolls according to the classic Caesar salad recipe with shrimp, you can do it even simpler - just boil them and fry them. After this, you will need to cut the tomatoes into slices, grate 30 grams of cheese and tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces. At the next stage, all the remaining components are collected in a blender bowl and beaten there until smooth.

In conclusion, all that remains is to place the prepared ingredients on a layer of pita bread, after greasing it with half of the resulting sauce. The components are laid out with a five-centimeter deviation from the edge of the pita bread in this order - lettuce, tomatoes, grated cheese and chicken, shrimp or any other main component on top. Next, all the laid out ingredients are smeared with the remaining sauce and wrapped in a roll, which is placed in cling film and sent to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. At the end, the roll is cut into small rolls, and they can be served at the table or taken with you to work or school.