Caesar salad has long won our love. Many housewives wonder how to properly prepare Caesar salad at home to surprise their guests. There are many recipes and the ingredients in them often sound very exotic. But even in the most elite institutions there is a recipe, if not more than one. The peculiarity of this salad is its variety and it is believed that the main thing is to prepare a sauce for Caesar salad, which gives it a unique taste.
Classic sauce requires products that are not always easy to find. So at home, you can make sauces for this salad according to a slightly different recipe, which will not at all spoil the overall impression of the dish, but only add zest to it.
Sauce making
The sauce is the first thing the hostess is interested in when answering the question of how to cook Caesar salad.
It is best to mix all the ingredients for the sauce with your hands, as this transfers the positive energy of the person who prepared it to the dish.
Two egg yolks, lemon juice, two small crushed cloves of garlic and one dessert spoon of mustard are mixed in a small pan. Then the mixture is thoroughly mixed and whipped, and olive oil is gradually added to it (half a glass is enough). You can add one or two tablespoons of vinegar to this version of the sauce to your liking. The sauce is whipped until thickened.
The second version of the sauce
This is a sour cream based sauce, softer. A teaspoon of mustard and two minced cloves of garlic are added to a glass of sour cream of medium fat content. Also, for piquancy, you can add there three small pickled cucumbers (preferably gherkin). Dressing is mixed in a mixer or blender.
Cooking crackers
Crackers for Caesar salad are called croutons. You can cook them easily and quickly, most importantly, decide on the choice of bread (black or white). Most often, croutons use white bread. Making croutons from old bread or purchased crackers is not recommended, as this can ruin the taste of the whole dish.
Two hundred grams of bread must be peeled, cut into cubes (with a side about a centimeter), dipped in olive oil and baked in a heated oven for five to seven minutes. Crutons should only be covered with a light golden crust.
Cooking Salad Basics
How to cook a classic Caesar salad? Its recipe is quite simple and provides only for the presence of cheese, lettuce, croutons and sauce. Recently, many improved versions of this salad have appeared. For example, such as Caesar with chicken or anchovies.
Preparing a salad with chicken is also easy: its fillet is cut into small cubes, crumbled in seasoning and fried until golden brown. After that, let the chicken cool on a plate and mix it with the rest of the ingredients. If the choice was made in favor of anchovies, they need to be cut finely enough.
Cheese selection
For the classic Caesar, you need parmesan, but you can use cheese and other varieties, the main thing is that it is hard. You can calculate the amount of cheese to your taste, focusing on the usual salad norm - 50 gr. per serving.
Lettuce leaves should cover the bottom of the plate in three to four rows. After that, the salad itself is laid out on them.
General phased salad recipe or how to make Caesar salad with chicken.
First, you need to cook the chicken according to the method described above and let it cool.
The second is to make the sauce and grate the cheese.
Thirdly, cover the bottom of the plate with lettuce and pour about a third of the sauce on them.
Fourth - add torn lettuce, chicken, half of crackers and grated cheese to the remainder of the sauce, mix everything and put on a plate on the lettuce leaves.
And, finally, the fifth - sprinkle the salad with the remaining grated cheese and croutons and serve. Optionally, you can decorate it with olives or small cherry tomatoes.
These are the main answers to the question of how to cook Caesar salad at home. Instead of chicken, you can take anchovies, seafood or fish (fried, weak salted or smoked).