Caesar salad dressing. Secrets of Proper Cooking

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Most amateur cooks have not only heard the name, but also know by heart the original recipe for Caesar salad, invented almost a hundred years ago. Since then, years have passed, people's food habits have changed. This dish has survived its metamorphoses, and now it exists in many different versions. One thing has remained unchanged - Caesar salad dressing, because without it, the appetizer will not be worthy of this big name! How to cook the famous sauce correctly?

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken eggs;
• 1/2 lemon;
• 100 ml olive oil;
• 2 tbsp. l. grated Parmesan;
• 20 grams of Worcestershire sauce.

Cooking

1. Caesar salad dressing prepares itselfit’s not difficult, but it’s important to follow the technology for preparing the main ingredient - eggs. First, they must be at room temperature (accordingly, they must be kept warm if they were stored in the refrigerator). Secondly, the blunt end of the eggs should be pierced with a needle and lowered for exactly one minute in water brought to a boil.
2. Crack the eggs in half, drain the liquid component into the prepared container, then send a thin layer of protein that formed during cooking to the same place, gently scraping it off the shell with a spoon. Beat the contents with a blender.
3. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon and add it to the egg mass. Mix thoroughly.
4. One of the most important components that includes salad dressing



"Caesar" is a Worcester (Worchestershire) sauce. If you could not find it in the nearest stores, then you can replace it with sweet French mustard. Pour a few drops of sauce into the bowl of dressing.

5. Grate Parmesan finely, add to other ingredients.
6. Beat the sauce with a blender, pouring olive oil into it gradually. When the amount of dressing increases by 1.5 times - everything is ready, it remains only to prepare the salad itself!

Classic Caesar salad by Caesar Cardini

Ingredients:

• Romaine lettuce (leaves);
• white bread;
• olive oil;
• tarragon and basil (dried ground or fresh).

Cooking

Fresh breadcut into cubes about a centimeter in size. Lightly fry and mix with chopped lettuce and aromatic herbs. You can refuel!

Shrimp Caesar Salad Sauce

If you add fried shrimp to the appetizer described above, you get a completely new dish with a delicate, refined taste. Of course, the classic Caesar salad dressing will go well with it, but you can also make another dressing that will emphasize all the advantages of the new dish.

Ingredients:

• 80 ml olive oil;
• 50ml water;
• 3 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
• 1 egg yolk;
• 1/2 tsp mustard (dry);
• 1/4 tsp s alt;
• ground black pepper;
• 2 pcs anchovy fillet (canned)

Cooking

1. In a small bowl, mix water, lemon juice, egg yolk (raw), s alt, pepper and mustard. Put the saucepan on the burner and bring to a boil.
2. Add olive oil and anchovies to the slightly cooled mass. Beat the prepared sauce with a blender and cool.

Variety of flavors

How many people, so many opinions and culinary preferences. Choose your Caesar salad variation, the right dressing for it, and enjoy!