The Caesar salad (also called Cesar, César, and Cesare) is a well-known salad of American origins.
In its original version, it is a green salad of romaine lettuce and croutons dressed with lemon (or lime) juice, olive oil, raw eggs (yolks) and boiled, Worcestershire sauce, anchovies, garlic, Dijon mustard, parmesan cheese, and black pepper.
➡Variations include changing the leaves, adding meat such as grilled chicken (Chicken Caesar salad) or bacon, or omitting ingredients like anchovies and eggs.
➡The salad was created on July 4, 1924, by Caesar Cardini (an Italian immigrant who ran restaurants in Mexico and the United States) at Caesar’s in Tijuana, Mexico, when the kitchen was overwhelmed and running out of ingredients.
➡In the 1970s, Julia Child published a recipe in her book “From Julia Child’s Kitchen,” based on an interview with Cardini’s daughter, in which the ingredients are mixed one at a time with the lettuce leaves.
⭐I present to you a classic version, my creative addition is Tofu karaage (see video below).
▶▶Karaage (唐揚げ,空揚げ, orから揚げ, ) is a Japanese cooking technique where various foods are cut into pieces and deep-fried in oil after being coated with flour and/or potato starch (katakuriko) or corn and marinated in soy sauce, mirin, garlic, and ginger.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 1Person
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: American
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- to taste romaine lettuce
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 lemon (or lime)
- to taste salt
- to taste black pepper
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 4 anchovies
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 hard-boiled egg
- to taste bread croutons
- to taste grated Parmesan cheese
- to taste olive oil
Steps
Rub the garlic clove on the plate.
For the dressing: mix the oil with salt, mustard, pepper, lemon (or lime) juice, Worcestershire sauce, yolks, chopped anchovies.
The dressing should be the base of the dish, place the lettuce leaves on top, distribute the bread croutons (which you can make by frying the bread in a pan with oil), add the sliced boiled egg, and finally the grated Parmesan cheese.
As you can see in the video, I have the Tofu karaage with the air fryer that you can purchase on the COSORI website with a 15% discount.
As you can see in the video, I have the Tofu karaage with the air fryer that you can purchase on the COSORI website with a 15% discount.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
What is the history of the Caesar salad?
Caesar Cardini lived in San Diego.
He ran one of his restaurants: Caesar’s in Tijuana, Mexico, to attract American clients who were trying to bypass Prohibition restrictions.
His daughter, Rosa, recounted that her father invented the salad when, in July 1924, the kitchen ran out of supplies.
Cardini improvised with what he had, adding the dramatic touch of tossing it at the table by the chef.
Others claim that Alex Cardini, Caesar Cardini’s brother, prepared the salad—previously called “Aviator Salad” because it was made for aviators traveling during Prohibition.
A number of Cardini staff members have also claimed to have invented the dish.
A popular myth attributes its invention to Julius Caesar.
