Fri, Feb 28, 2014
If at first glance it may seem that the technology
cooking salads does not provide for any features then
after reading our recipes, your opinion,
undoubtedly change. Naturally, no holiday table
can do without a salad, especially if it is tasty and
original. Most likely, everyone has heard of such a salad as “Caesar”
and many even know how to cook it properly. But, that not
less I want to remind you of its origin. At the beginning of the twentieth century
It was on the Independence Day of the United States, July 4, in one of the restaurants, to
At the end of the working day, a group of musicians peeked in
bring them food. In the kitchen there was only one cook and the minimum
amount of ingredients. However, he wanted to please his
customers, and he decided to cook a special salad, adding to it
those products that remain in stock. As a result, visitors
the restaurants were satisfied, and the salad of the American chef
of Italian origin named Caesar Cardini got his
the name is still considered one of the most popular
salads of the world. Of course, we are talking about a Caesar salad. To the present day
Many interpretations of the original salad have reached, and each of them
in its own delicious and interesting. The main feature of Caesar salad
– this is properly cooked sauce, which is filled with any of its
view. There is a small secret in the preparation of refills, not knowing
which you will not be able to properly prepare the Caesar salad.
Contents
Caesar Salad: reveal the secret of cooking refueling
So, for making the sauce, we need to prepare eggs,
lemon, Worcestershire sauce, a few cloves of garlic and olive oil.
Boil water in a small saucepan and drop fresh eggs into it.
Hold them for exactly 1 minute and quickly cool. After that, clean
eggs from the shell and carefully beat with olive oil. Spice up
freshly squeezed lemon juice, Worcester sauce and garlic. That’s
everything. Salad dressing is ready, and the number of ingredients
depends on how much salad you should make in
the end result. how видите, заправка классического салата майонезом
– This is a misconception, because as soon as the above sauce
able to give the salad a special flavor that will
match the very name of “Caesar.” Below we are with you
let’s get acquainted with the technology of cooking Caesar salad in
multiple interpretations, but the main ingredient of each
there will be lettuce leaves and croutons.
Recipe 1. Salad “Caesar” classic
It is believed that the composition of the classic salad include
anchovies. This is a misconception. Light taste of fish can be felt
thanks to the Worcester sauce, which includes
anchovies.
Ingredients:
- grated Parmesan cheese – 100 g;
- fresh leaves of Romano lettuce – 150 g;
- olive oil – 2 tbsp;
- wheat croutons or crackers – 100 g;
- lime – 0.5 pcs;
- Worcestershire sauce – 0.5 tsp;
- egg – 1 pc .;
- grainy mustard – 0.5 tsp;
- freshly ground black pepper and salt – to taste.
The way приготовления:
First, prepare delicious croutons with you at home.
We take Chabatto bread or another kind of white wheat bread.
Cut it into small cubes, spread on sprinkled
olive oil baking sheet and send in the oven for a few minutes.
We need dried cubes, not fried! Further prepared
grated Parmesan cheese on the shallow side of the grater. Wash under
cold water leaves of fresh salad “Romano” and neatly
dry them in a special drying or using paper towels.
Italian chefs strongly recommend tearing lettuce leaves.
only by hand. It is believed that in this way the taste of the salad is much
richer and it retains all the vitamins and minerals. Boil
water in a saucepan and lower for exactly 1 minute a fresh egg.
We take out and immediately cool it under running cold water.
Turn on the mixer and whisk the egg, adding to it the Worcester sauce,
garlic and mustard passed through the garlic press. Then thin
pour olive oil in a trickle, without stopping while beating
sauce with a mixer. Beat until it gets thick.
consistency. Then squeeze the juice of half lime and
mix it up.
Salad bowl carefully wipe the sliced lobule
garlic. We send it torn leaves of lettuce and add
diced crackers. Pour over cooked sauce and sprinkle with grated
Parmesan cheese. Caesar Salad, cooked in a classic
option, ready. Good appetite!
Recipe 2. Salad “Caesar with Chicken and Crackers”
Ingredients:
- boiled chicken breast – 1 pc;
- fresh leaves of Romano lettuce;
- white loaf or Chabatto bread – 1/4 part;
- walnuts – 1 handful;
- grainy mustard – 1 tbsp;
- Parmesan cheese – 50-70 g;
- balsamic vinegar – 1 tbsp;
- olive oil – 3-5 tbsp;
- lime juice – 1 tbsp;
- chicken egg – 1 pc;
- freshly ground black pepper and salt – to taste.
Cooking method:
Boiled chicken breast cool and gently cut with a knife on
cubes. Preheat the pan on the fire and fry a handful of kernels on it
walnut. Put them on a paper towel so they
cool down Fresh salad leaves are washed thoroughly under cold.
running water and dry in a dryer or using paper
towels.
Take a clove of garlic, cut it along and wipe the bowl, in
which will be preparing a Caesar salad. So, tear the leaves
Salad and evenly spread them in a bowl. Sliced Chicken Fillet
pour out the top of the leaves and take up the preparation of the sauce. AT
boiling water drop the egg for 1 minute. Immediately we get it and quickly
cool Remove some shell and pour the contents of the egg
the dishes. ATзбиваем миксером, добавляем к нему тонкой струйкой
olive oil, balsamic vinegar and lime juice. After
This is dropped into the sauce, grainy mustard and 2 tbsp. grated cheese
Parmesan. Spice up соус перцем и солью по своему вкусу. If you have
get too thick sauce, then you dilute it with a small
amount of olive oil with lemon juice.
Cook homemade croutons of white loaf or bread
�”Chabatto”. To do this, you can do in two ways: cut
bread into cubes or tear it into small pieces. Splash
baking tray with a small amount of olive oil, put the pieces
loaf and send for a few minutes in the oven.
Ready salad will fill with the prepared sauce, we decorate from above
its croutons, roasted nuts and grated cheese. ATсе, можно
Serve at the table – enjoy your meal !!!
Recipe 3. Salad “Caesar with smoked chicken”
This type of salad is especially original. Thanks to smoked meat
chicken, the interpretation of the classic version of the salad has received extremely
memorizing taste.
Ingredients:
- smoked chicken fillet – 350 g;
- boiled chicken yolks – 2 pcs .;
- Romano lettuce leaves – a bunch;
- white loaf – 200 g;
- ground black pepper;
- olive oil – 100 ml;
- mustard granular – 2 tsp;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- Lime or lemon juice – 3 tbsp.
Cooking method:
First we will skip the peeled garlic cloves through
garlic press ATыложим его в небольшую миску и добавляем по одной
spoonful of olive oil, constantly stirring. ATсего нам
need 5 tablespoons of oil. Leave aside for 20-25 minutes, and
let’s get down to cooking croutons for salad. Cut loaf on
cubes and fry them in garlic butter. ATыложим на бумажное
towel.
At our discretion, we chop smoked chicken breast – you can
cubes, stripes, and even break chaotically into small pieces.
A piece of hard cheese is grated, and lettuce leaves are good.
flush. Let’s dry the lettuce sheets on a paper towel or in
special drying. Take a beautiful salad bowl, rub it
chopped garlic and vykladyvaem in her torn hands
Romano lettuce leaves.
We proceed to the preparation of refueling. For this we take
boiled egg yolks and mash them with mustard. Then to
add a thin stream of olive oil to the resulting mass,
continuously mixing. Season with pepper and salt to your liking.
Smooth meat slices evenly distributed on lettuce leaves
Chicken and fried croutons. ATсе заливаем приготовленным соусом и
sprinkle with grated cheese.
Caesar salad with smoked chicken meat is ready. We wish you all
enjoy your meal!
Recipe 4. Salad “Caesar with chicken and mayonnaise”
For cooking Caesar salad according to this recipe, we
we use iceberg lettuce leaves and hard boiled eggs. AT
As a result, we’ll have a tasty salad
fast enough to cook at home, just in case
guests already, as they say, “on the threshold.” Not difficult
Quickly boil the chicken breast and eggs and let them cool, and
further it goes on its own.
Ingredients:
- Iceberg lettuce – 2 packs;
- boiled chicken fillet – 0.5 kg;
- cherry tomatoes – 1 package;
- hard cheese – 100 g;
- long loaf – 200 g;
- garlic – 1 tooth;
- olive oil – 50 ml;
- boiled chicken eggs – 3 pcs;
- mayonnaise – 200 ml;
- lemon juice or lime – 1 tbsp.
- mustard – 25 g;
- salt and spices – to taste.
Cooking method:
Give cool boiled breast and cooked chicken eggs. Baton
cut into cubes and dry them on a baking sheet in the oven. Pouring
olive oil on a skillet and fry a clove over low heat
garlic. Using the skimmer, we take out the garlic and send it to the oil
dried cubes of loaf. Fry them until golden crispy
peel.
We wash lettuce leaves under running water and quickly
we will lower in ice water for 10-15 minutes. AT результате мы получим
crispy leaves.
While the leaves are in the water, we quickly cut the chicken fillet
on cubes and fry them in oil in a skillet. AT конце процедуры
add some salt. Separate the yolks from proteins. With a fork we knead
yolks, add mustard and lemon juice to them. Grate cheese
together with egg whites, and tomatoes are cut into 4 parts. ATсе,
the ingredients we have prepared, and it remains only to choose from the water
Lettuce leaves and dry them with a paper towel.
We collect salad. We will need a flat and wide dish. ATыложим
on it are beautifully torn leaves, spread evenly on top
tomatoes, then chicken fillet. On the chicken fillet lay out the yolk
mass and season with mayonnaise. Gently, two forks all
mix and form a small hill. Now on the formed
lay a layer of lettuce leaves, a layer of crackers and grated cheese with
egg whites. Well, that’s all, the salad is served. ATы прекрасно с этим
справились — enjoy your meal!
Recipe 5. Salad “Caesar with chicken and tomatoes”
To make a Caesar salad according to this recipe, you want to
recommend preparing cherry tomatoes. Naturally, in any
You can use ordinary tomatoes as well, but cherry
блюду более торжественный view. And yet, unforgettable about tasty and
Original Caesar Sauce – This Is Important!
Ingredients:
- fresh lettuce leaves – 1 bunch;
- baked chicken breast – 1 pc;
- Parmesan cheese;
- olive oil; garlic – 1 tooth;
- cherry tomatoes – 1 package;
- white loaf – 2 pieces.
For the sauce:
- olive oil – 100 ml;
- Worcestershire sauce – 1/2 tsp;
- wine vinegar – 1 tsp;
- lemon juice – 2 tsp;
- chicken egg – 2 pieces;
- grain mustard – 1 tsp;
- pepper and salt to taste.
Cooking method:
First, wash under cold water lettuce leaves and gently
dry them with a paper towel. Sliced loaf slices
crust, and crumb cut into cubes. Preheat in a skillet
olive oil and fry the long loaf cubes in it. Chicken breast salt
and send in the oven to bake.
Let’s start cooking the sauce: in boiling water for exactly 1
minute we drop chicken eggs. Remove the shells and pour the eggs into
blender bowl. Add olive oil and beat. Now thin
trickle of the rest of the oil, without stopping to beat. When
we get a thick texture, add mustard, Worcestershire
sauce, vinegar, lemon juice and whisk well. Season with salt and
pepper.
Формируем salad. Prepared salad bowl rub a slice
garlic and lay on it dried leaves. Top lay out
Slices of baked chicken fillet and pour the sauce a la Caesar.
Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese shavings, on which we put the tomatoes
cherry and fried crackers. ATсе, салат можно подавать на стол.
Several recipes for making sauce for the salad “Caesar with
chicken “
We know that there are many interpretations of the classic
recipe “Caesar”, at the same time, professional chefs decided
take a chance and come up with several options of sauce, oh
which we will discuss below.
1. Sauce from famous chef Jamie Oliver
For its preparation, on the recommendation of English
a professional cook, James Oliver, we need a mortar.
If you do not have it, you can use a blender. So,
вооружившись пестиком, опускаем в чашу anchovies. This is optional
ingredient, but still … Mash pestle anchovies along with
дольками garlic. No need to add a lot of garlic so that you have
turned out too hot sauce. So, тщательно все перетираем до
homogeneous state. Now add to them a tablespoon
olive oil and a spoonful of sour cream. Grate a handful of cheese
�Parmesan and send in a mortar. Stir with active movements.
all ingredients to get a gentle homogeneous mass. ATнешне
our sauce will be very reminiscent of mayonnaise, but the taste of this sauce
special. Before you send the salad dressing, be sure to
try not to spoil the main dish! Remember to sauce
It turned out perfect, you need to take 3 parts of olive oil 1
part of lime juice!
2. Sauce dressing for Caesar salad
To prepare the sauce for this recipe, be sure to
use fresh and preferably homemade egg. We will need
Only the yolk, so boil the egg and carefully remove the protein.
Yolk pound well in 2 tsp. mustard and add to mass 2
st.l. olive oil and lime juice, a teaspoon of wine vinegar.
ATзбейте миксером и приправьте соус по вкусу молотым перцем и солью.
Попробуйте на вкус и можете заправлять salad. The sauce is ready!
Secrets and useful tips from leading chefs
- If the lettuce leaves that you prepared for cooking
Caesar salad have lost their appearance and fumbled a bit, then
It is recommended to soak them in ice water for 15-20 minutes.
- To taste cooked croutons at home
amplified in the pan in which you are going to fry
cubes, add some butter to the olive oil.
Wait until the mass starts to sizzle a little and fry the croutons until
golden brown on high heat for 2 minutes. ATыложите их
on a paper towel and can add to the dish. Preferably not
apply fresh loaf!
