How to make an incredibly delicious Caesar salad with shrimps

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

Caesar salad with shrimps is deservedly considered one of the favorite dishes of gourmets all over the world. Traditionally, this salad is prepared with a sauce based on raw yolks, but today we invite you to try its version with a sauce based on mayonnaise, lemon juice and olive oil.

How to cook "Caesar" with shrimps? First, let's decide on the ingredients.

Ingredients:

• Romaine lettuce or Iceberg - one bunch;
• shrimps - use the ones you like best, any kind and size;
• quail eggs (you can also use regular ones);
• cherry tomatoes;
• cheese (Parmesan is best).

For croutons:

• bread (black or white);
• olive oil;
• garlic.

For sauce:

• mayonnaise;
• olive oil;
• fresh lemon juice.
• garlic (can be used fresh, for a brighter and more savory taste, or baked, for a milder taste and aroma);
• groundblack and red pepper (to taste).

Shrimp cocktail salad is prepared in several stages. The first involves the direct preparation of all ingredients. The second stage is mixing, dressing the salad with dressing before serving the dish. So, let's cook it.

For croutons we use yesterday's bread - it does not crumble when cut and is optimally suited for making croutons. We cut it into small cubes, 0.5-1 cm in size, after cutting off the rough crust. Mince a few cloves of garlic and fry them in olive oil. When the garlic acquires a golden hue, carefully lay it out and fry the croutons in this oil. You can give the oil a pleasant garlic flavor by first infusing it with garlic. To do this, also finely chop the garlic, pour it with olive oil and let it brew for several hours. Strain before use. Stirring gently, fry the bread over high heat. When the crackers become golden, put them on a plate with a paper towel - it will absorb excess oil. Leave to cool.

It is impossible to cook a Caesar salad with shrimp without greens, so let's start with lettuce leaves. They must be thoroughly washed from dust and dirt, and then dried thoroughly. It is very important to use dry leaves, without moisture, and pre-chilled. First, wash each leaf separately, dry it with paper towels, then put them in the refrigerator for a while.

Sauce. Withoutit is also difficult to imagine a delicious Caesar salad with shrimp. To prepare it, it is best to use a blender - it will provide a uniform, airy and well-whipped consistency. We put all the products in the blender container: mayonnaise, olive oil and lemon juice. Beat, at the end add the grated parmesan. When the sauce is whipped, put it in the refrigerator with lettuce.

Shrimp. Separate the meat from the shell and fry directly during the assembly of the salad, as, cooling down, the shrimp meat becomes more dense, resembling rubber in taste. At this stage of cooking, it is very important not to overcook the shrimp, but to remove it from the heat as soon as the meat has become opaque and has acquired a slight reddish tint.

While the fried shrimp are cooling, we begin to “collect” our dish. In order to properly decorate the Caesar salad with shrimp, we take chilled lettuce leaves, tear them into small pieces with our hands (if cut with a knife, they will be bitter), put half the crackers, some parmesan cheese and a little sauce. Mix everything gently. Next, put the salad on a plate, put the remaining croutons on top, cut the cherry tomatoes into halves, put them on the salad, then put the shrimp on top and generously sprinkle with grated parmesan.

Appetizing "Caesar" with shrimps is ready!Bon appetit!