Salad "Caesar" - a dish known and loved by many. Invented by his American cook Caesar Cardinini in the distant 1924. According to the legend, the cook invented it when, in the kitchen, practically no food was left, and visitors demanded food. This is how a simple salad turned out from simple products, which many fell in love with. Now we will tell you how to prepare a classic Caesar salad.
Caesar salad is a classic recipe
Ingredients:
- Romaine lettuce - 400 g;
- chicken eggs - 1 piece;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- baguette - 120 g;
- extra virgin olive oil - 50 ml;
- lemon juice - 10 ml;
- grated parmesan cheese - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- Worcestersky sauce - 1 teaspoon;
- black ground pepper - 1 pinch;
- salt - 1 pinch.
Preparation
For the classic Caesar salad we will need croutons - dried white bread. For its preparation with baguette cut the crusts, crumb cut into cubes and dried until blubbering in the oven. During the preparation, the future croutons need to be turned several times so that they become evenly browned. Then rub garlic with salt, it is most convenient to do this in a mortar. In the resulting gruel add 10 ml of olive oil and heat the mixture on a small fire. Then we pour out the croutons, mix it and, for the same small fire, hold it for 2 minutes.
Next, take a large raw chicken egg, pierce the shell from the blunt side and for 1 minute carefully lowered into boiling water. In a salad bowl, first lay out the large-sliced romaine salad, sprinkle it with oil and gently mix it. Then sprinkle with lemon juice, season with salt, pepper, Worcester sauce and mix again. The egg is neatly broken and poured on top of the salad, mixed, so that the greens are covered with egg mass. Then sprinkle with grated parmesan, mix again, put the croutons, mix it neatly, and immediately serve the salad to the table.
The correct recipe for Caesar salad with chicken
Ingredients:
For salad:
- baguette - 200 g;
- salad - 1 bunch;
- chicken fillet - 300 g;
- Parmesan - 50 g;
- tomato - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- olive oil - 100 ml;
- salt, a mixture of peppers.
For sauce:
- Worcestersky sauce - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- garlic - 1 small denticle;
- black peppercorns - 5 pcs .;
- egg yolks - 3 pieces;
- olive oil - 75 ml;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- Dijon mustard - to taste.
Preparation
Chicken fillet rubbed with a mixture of salt and peppers, cover with a film and put in a cold place to marinate for a couple of hours. In the frying pan pour olive oil, reheat and dip it into the garlic cut into plates. Fry until lightly golden, after which we extract it, it will no longer come in handy - we gave all the aroma of garlic to olive oil. Baguette is cut into cubes, after cutting off the crust from it. The resulting pieces fry until a ruddy crust in olive oil.
Then in a hot frying pan fry the chicken fillet for 4 minutes on each side. Do not cover the frying pan with a lid.
Now let's start preparing a classic Caesar salad sauce. In a mortar rub garlic cloves, peas of black pepper and a pinch of salt, add a Worcesters sauce, raw egg yolks and
Now it's time to collect the classic Caesar salad with chicken: put the salad dish on garlic and spread the leaves of the lettuce, cut by large pieces. Sprinkle them with sauce and sprinkle with grated parmesan. From above place chopped chicken fillets and again sprinkle with sauce. Now we place crunches, which are also sprinkled with sauce and pommeled with parmesan cheese. If desired, add the tomato, cut into pieces, which also pritirushivaem cheese and immediately put on the table.