Caesar salad with salmon: recipes, cooking features and reviews

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The world famous Caesar salad is a North American dish. It is served in all establishments - from an elite restaurant to a simple cafe.

There is a traditional version of this dish, where the main ingredients are croutons, chicken fillet and a special Caesar dressing. There are also varieties of salad that use red fish or shrimp instead of meat.

Our article will consider recipes for "Caesar" with salmon.

About Caesar salad

Created in the 1920s by a chef with Italian roots who owns several establishments in Mexico, Caesar Cardini.

According to the legendary story, the salad was invented at a time when prohibition "ruled" in the yard, and there was almost no food left in the kitchen. So Caesar prepared a dish "from what was."

BIn the classic version, the main ingredients are: croutons (croutons) made from pieces of white bread, fried in vegetable oil (often olive or mixed with sunflower oil) with chopped garlic, Parmesan cheese and lettuce (iceberg, romaine, lettuce).

And, of course, a special dressing (several ways of preparing which will also be discussed in the article).

To give the Caesar salad satiety, a little later they began to add chicken, slightly s alted (smoked, fried, steam) fish or shrimp.

By the way, in the 50s of the same century, the dish was noted in Paris as the best recipe that appeared on the territory of the American continent over the past half century.

About the benefits of salmon

It should be noted that many of the world's restaurants and cafes serve several varieties of Caesar salad. This is a classic version (with chicken meat), and with salmon (salmon), with shrimps (regular or tiger). The same is true in institutions that are located throughout Russia.

It has long been known that for the Russian people salmon has long been one of the most important components of traditional cuisine. Especially often it was eaten on fasting days.

And therefore, the options for cooking Caesar salad with salmon are especially fond of in the Russian Federation. This dish is also served in restaurants, bars and cafes. They also cook at home.

Salmon is a marine fish, but it spawns in rivers.

Shequite useful, nutritious and tasty. Despite the high fat content, it is often included in lean and diet meals.

Salmon contains protein, amino acids, melatonin, fatty acids, iron, potassium, fluorine, iodine, vitamins A, B, D.

Use of this product shown:

• people with sleep problems;
• heart disease sufferers;
• with thrombophlebitis;
• high blood pressure;
• high blood cholesterol;
• weak immune system;
• exposing the skin to excessive sun exposure.

Therefore, Caesar salad with salmon will be especially useful and healing for the whole family - both for children and adults. After all, this fish is a source of essential substances, as well as tasty and tender.

Salad dressing

The very first version of this recipe features fresh eggs, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce.

Worcestershire or Worcester (Worchester) sauce is a fairly concentrated seasoning of English cuisine. It has a sweet and sour taste. Consists of 26 ingredients, including soy sauce, tomato paste, ginger, garlic, fish and others.

It is this sauce that gives the fishy taste of Caesar's signature dressing (despite the popular belief that anchovies are the main ingredient).

Let's consider 2 ways to prepare this salad ingredient: with boiled yolks (homemade) and with anchovies.

Firstoption

Quite simple and fast. It turns out that the dressing is delicious in its own way and fully emphasizes each component of Caesar with salmon (recipe at home) or other “meat” ingredients.

Cooking:

1. Boil 2 hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel and separate the white from the yolk.
2. Garlic (10 grams) pass through the garlic.
3. Grate the yolks, add garlic and table mustard (20 grams).
4. Make fresh lemon juice (50 milliliters), add to mixture.
5. Sprinkle s alt (10 grams).
6. Vegetable oil (can be a mixture of olive and sunflower) in the amount of 100 milliliters, pour into the dressing, beat with a whisk or blender.
7. Infuse for 20 minutes (the consistency should resemble sour cream).

Second option

This cooking method involves the use of ingredients such as balsamic vinegar and anchovies.

This recipe is considered a classic (so to speak, the closest to the original source).

Cooking:

1. Bring a small amount of drinking water to a boil.
2. Dip 1 chicken egg and take it out after a few seconds.
3. Then remove from the shell and pour into a container (blender bowl).
4. Add 3 grams of table mustard and lemon juice (20 milliliters), beat.
5. Slowly pour in refined vegetable oil (50 milliliters).
6. Chop canned anchovy fillets (4 pieces) finely, add to the sauce.
7. Pour 1 milliliter of balsamicvinegar.
8. Add s alt (10 grams) and ground black pepper (3 grams), mix.

This option is quite suitable for the classic Caesar recipe with salmon.

With cherry tomatoes and quail eggs

For this cooking method, home-s alted red fish is used.

An excellent version of Caesar salad with salmon and croutons, which will become the king of a festive or everyday table.

Ingredients and preparation:

1. Make white bread croutons (200 grams): cut into cubes and fry in olive oil (30 milliliters) with minced garlic (10 grams).
2. Sprinkle hot croutons with s alt and refrigerate.
3. Hard boil quail eggs (7 pieces), cut into halves.
4. Chop lightly s alted salmon (150 grams) into strips.
5. Parmesan cheese (50 grams) grated.
6. Place lettuce leaves (100 grams) previously prepared and chopped by hand on a dish.
7. Sprinkle with Caesar dressing (prepare one of the options indicated above in the article).
8. Place pieces of salmon and eggs.
9. Sprinkle croutons evenly.
10. Cherry tomatoes (7 pieces) cut in half and also spread on the surface of the dish.
11. Sprinkle with grated cheese.

Siberian recipe

This recipe for a delicious salad has its own zest - it contains pine nuts. And the dressing is made from quail eggs.

Components and stepscooking Caesar salad with salmon:

1. Cook croutons from pieces of half a white loaf in the oven.
2. Chop slightly s alted salmon (200 grams) and Parmesan cheese (50 grams).
3. Make sauce: pour freshly squeezed lemon juice (50 milliliters) into a container, add quail eggs (6 pieces), garlic (5 grams), Dijon mustard (10 grams), s alt (10 grams), black pepper ground (3 grams).
4. Beat the mixture with a blender.
5. In the process, gradually pour in olive oil (100 milliliters).
6. Place pre-prepared lettuce leaves (100 grams) on a dish, tearing them apart with your hands.
7. Pour in some Caesar dressing.
8. Spread the salmon pieces and croutons evenly, pour over the sauce.
9. Garnish the dish with grated cheese and pine nuts (20 grams).

With steamed salmon and Worcestershire sauce

Delicious classic "Caesar" with salmon, dressed with Worcestershire sauce (as in the traditional version). And the fish is steamed. Thanks to these moments, the dish will be even more piquant and tender.

Ingredients and cooking steps:

1. Sprinkle salmon fillet (200 grams) with s alt (10 grams) and ground black pepper (5 grams), pour olive oil (20 milliliters).
2. Cook on a double boiler.
3. Dice white rolls (100 grams), pour vegetable oil (20 milliliters) and dry in the oven.
4. Grate Parmesan cheese (50 grams).
5. Wash and dry lettuce leaves (100 grams), chop by hand.
6. Prepare Caesar sauce: boil a chicken egg in boiling water for 60 seconds, pour into a container, add olive oil (60 milliliters), minced garlic (10 grams), freshly squeezed lemon juice (50 milliliters) and Worcestershire sauce (40 milliliters).
7. Beat the mixture until smooth.
8. Put lettuce leaves on a dish and pour dressing over them, mix.
9. Add pieces of chopped salmon and croutons.
10. Garnish the dish with grated cheese.

With smoked salmon

An original way of cooking the classic "Caesar" with salmon, where this ingredient is lightly smoked (at home or bought ready-made).

This gives the whole dish a new sound.

Caesar dressing can be prepared according to one of the options that are above in the article.

Process description and components:

1. Prepare croutons from the crusts of a loaf (200 grams), frying them in olive oil (20 milliliters) with garlic (chopped, 5 grams).
2. Chop smoked salmon (200 grams).
3. Boil a chicken egg (1 piece), cool and cut into 8 equal parts.
4. Put pre-washed and dried lettuce leaves (50 grams), torn into medium pieces on a flat dish.
5. Evenly apply some of the sauce, mix.
6. Spread the pieces of salmon and eggs.
7. Watersauce.
8. Spread croutons and grated Parmesan cheese (20 grams).

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There are also versions of Caesar salad with salmon, in which the fish is fried in olive oil, which in its own way affects the overall taste of the dish.

To give the appetizer an even brighter color, it is recommended to add black or green pitted olives (whole or in halves).

According to the reviews of hostesses who have been using these recipes for cooking their favorite dish with salmon for quite a long time, the fish component emphasizes the taste of the salad especially subtly. It also adds usefulness and nutritional value to "Caesar" as a whole.