The Caesar salad is a rich, fresh, and tasty salad, simple to prepare at home. It is a dish that is based on Romaine lettuce, to which we add toasted croutons, cheese, and a creamy dressing that makes it very flavorful. If these were originally the basic ingredients of the Caesar salad, over time the recipe has been enriched with new elements. In some versions, indeed, grilled chicken breast and hard-boiled eggs are also added, thus becoming a real one-dish meal! Even the traditional Caesar salad dressing is made with raw egg yolks, but a great solution is to replace them with already prepared or homemade mayonnaise. Moreover, you can decide to use anchovies for the dressing or omit them.
The preparation is very simple: we combine chopped lettuce with grilled chicken, toasted bread croutons, hard-boiled eggs, and Parmesan shavings. To dress it, we make a dressing with mayonnaise, garlic, lemon juice, oil, salt, and pepper.
Here are some reasons why you should try this salad:
• It’s very easy and convenient to prepare at home because we can make it in advance and eat it later. But, after all, it’s so quick that it can also be prepared on the spot in a few minutes.
• We can customize it with different ingredients: for example, make it rich so it becomes an excellent one-dish meal, or without chicken and eggs to enjoy it as a side dish.
• It’s fresh and flavorful, perfect all year round but certainly indispensable in summer!
What are you waiting for? Try the Caesar salad and let us know what you think.
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Inexpensive
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 4People
- Cooking methods: Grill
- Cuisine: American
- Seasonality: Summer, All seasons
Ingredients for preparing Caesar salad
- 1 Romaine lettuce
- 0.88 lbs chicken breast
- 1.06 oz Parmigiano Reggiano DOP
- 2 eggs
- 5.29 oz stale bread
- extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- 3.53 oz mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 3.38 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
- lemon juice
- salt
Tools for preparing Caesar salad
- 1 Cutting board
- 1 Knife
- 1 Grill
- 1 Immersion blender
- 1 Bowl
How to prepare Caesar salad
Start preparing the Caesar salad by making the dressing: place the mayonnaise and mustard in a tall glass. Then add the minced garlic and lemon juice. Also pour in the oil and salt.
Blend with the immersion blender until you obtain a smooth and homogeneous sauce.
Now focus on preparing the rest of the ingredients: clean the Romaine lettuce, cut it into pieces, rinse it, and dry it well.
Dice the bread and toast it in a pan with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper until it is well toasted.
Place the chicken breast slices on a hot grill and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side. Once ready, cut them into strips.
Hard-boil the eggs by placing them in a saucepan with cold water and cooking for 9 minutes from the start of boiling. Drain them under running water, gently remove the shell, and cut them into wedges.
Make shavings from the Parmesan.
At this point, all the ingredients for preparing the Caesar salad are ready: put the lettuce with the chicken in a large bowl.
Add the bread croutons, the sauce, and mix everything well.
Finally, add the eggs, the Parmesan shavings, and more sauce.
The Caesar salad is ready to be enjoyed!
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You can also add crispy bacon.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
Why is this salad called Caesar salad?
It is named after the person who invented it in the 1920s, Chef Caesar Cardini. The salad was created in Mexico during a busy 4th of July weekend in 1924. On that occasion, the chef had to make do with only Romaine lettuce, eggs, and the condiments he had available, thus creating this famous salad. Over the years, it has been enriched with other ingredients and has become famous worldwide.
