Favorite by many the salad, which Caesar cook came up with from the remnants of various products for distinguished guests, is original both for its appearance and the products that make up the dish, and for its unique taste. For many years, a specially prepared egg-based sauce has been used as a salad dressing.
But today, thanks to the variety of recipes, experiments and imagination of experienced cooks and ordinary housewives, Caesar's salad is permissible to cook with products that are different from the original, filling it with mayonnaise. Moreover, such a salad will turn out no less tasty and the difference from the original will be noticed only by an experienced restaurateur or gourmet.
Caesar salad with mayonnaise - general principles
What is this salad good for? It can include a variety of products. Be sure to have crackers, lettuce leaves and cheese, everything else is at your discretion: chicken, fish, cherry tomatoes, seafood, quail eggs and other ingredients.
All products are crushed and cut as indicated in the recipe and put in a fresh salad, with the exception of meat, seafood and eggs: they are pre-fried or boiled.
Salad crackers are prepared independently. It is enough to cut fresh bread into small cubes, put them on a dry baking sheet and send to the oven for a few minutes. For savory taste, seasonings of croutons are permissible: for example, paprika, herbs, garlic.
Mayonnaise can be purchased ready or made independently. If you take a marketable product, choose a quality product that does not contain emulsifiers and other “chemicals”. The homemade mayonnaise, though troublesome, is much tastier and healthier. It can be prepared from vegetable oil, sugar, salt, raw eggs, lemon juice and various additives (mustard, cucumber pickle, spices).
Serve the salad in a la carte plates, laying out all the prepared ingredients in a chaotic manner, sprinkled with cheese and watering with mayonnaise.
1. Caesar salad with mayonnaise and walnuts
Ingredients:
• one chicken leg;
• a small piece of Dutch cheese;
• 1 white loaf;
• 2 lettuce leaves;
• 5 cherry tomatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• A handful of unshelled walnuts;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• spicy mustard - 2 teaspoons;
• lemon juice - 6 tablespoons;
• on a pinch of salt and allspice powder;
• mayonnaise and “Caesar” sauce (ready or made at home) - 2 tablespoons each.
Cooking Method:
1. Preparation of “Caesar” sauce: 2 chop some raw eggs with a blunt side of a needle, put them in hot water for 1 minute so that they turn out to be welded. Break eggs, mix whites with yolks in a cup. Add to them Worcestershire sauce and a little lemon juice. Chop the garlic in a garlic dish, put it to the eggs, whisk everything well. Slowly, slowly stirring, pour in a little olive oil. At the end, a little salt and pepper.
2. Preparation of mayonnaise dressing: chop 3 cloves of garlic in a garlic dish, mix with mustard, salt and pepper, pour the remaining lemon juice, mayonnaise, mix well.
3. Separate the flesh from the chicken leg, cut the fillets into medium straws, fry in a pan with olive oil until light brown crust.
4. Cut the crusts off the loaf, cut the crumb into cubes, dry a little in the oven.
5. Cut the tomatoes into two halves, boil the eggs and cut into large pieces.
6. Rinse and dry lettuce leaves with your hands and lay on a flat plate.
7. To sort out walnuts from garbage, finely chop with a knife.
8. Put chicken pulp in a plate with lettuce leaves, pour over Caesar sauce.
9. Put tomato slices, boiled eggs, grated cheese, bread sticks over meat and salad leaves, pre-mixed with mayonnaise dressing. Sprinkle with crushed nuts.
10. Decorate with parsley leaves.
2. Caesar salad with mayonnaise and Chinese cabbage
Ingredients:
• Beijing cabbage - medium head; • chicken fillet, separated from the legs - 200 g;
• 3 tomatoes;
• a piece of Dutch cheese;
• white bread - 5 pieces;
• a little mayonnaise;
• a pinch of salt;
• a piece of butter;
• a floor of a bunch of any greens.
Cooking Method:
1. Beat off the chicken fillet with a cooking hammer.
2. Put the meat on a hot skillet with butter, salt and fry on all sides to a crust.
3. Slice roasted meat.
4. Cut the tomatoes into slices, put in a plate to the chicken.
5. Cut the cabbage into thin strips, using only delicate leaves without coarse pieces, put into a plate.
6. Add cheese to the salad, cut it into thin plastics and mix well.
7. Cut the bread into cubes, dry in the oven.
8. Chop garlic cloves in a garlic dish, put in mayonnaise and mix well.
9. Add with salad crackers, mayonnaise with garlic, mix thoroughly.
10. Put the salad in a salad bowl, decorate with greens.
3. Layered Caesar salad with mayonnaise
Ingredients:
• lettuce greens - 5 leaves;
• 3 chicken drumsticks;
• 1 loaf;
• 5 cherry tomatoes;
• a slice of Parmesan cheese;
• oil for frying - 30 ml;
• mayonnaise - 50 g;
• seasoning for chicken dishes, salt - on a pinch.
On the sauce:
• 50 g of mayonnaise and sour cream;
• 20 g of any ketchup;
• soy sauce - 20 ml.
Cooking Method:
1. Disassemble the thighs, remove the bones, chop the flesh into strips, add mayonnaise, sprinkle with seasoning, stir well and leave for a few minutes.
2. Cut the dough into a cube, put it in a frying pan with hot oil and fry until sweetheart in a few minutes.
3. Place the crackers with a skimmer on a paper towel and dry.
4. Fry marinated meat in oil until crust.
5. Chop the grated cheese, tear the greens of the lettuce into medium pieces.
6. Preparation of sauce: mix sour cream with mayonnaise and ketchup well.
7. Put salad leaves in a deep salad bowl, put meat, crackers on top, pour the sauce.
8. Sprinkle with cheese, garnish with tomato slices.
4. Caesar salad with mayonnaise in Russian
Ingredients:
• 2 medium chicken legs;
• Peking salad - 3 leaves;
• a piece of Dutch cheese;
• 3 handfuls of white crackers;
• 5 cherry tomatoes.
Refueling:
• half a glass of mayonnaise;
• garlic head floor;
• any greens - 3 branches each;
• lemon juice - 50 ml.
Cooking Method:
1. Disassemble the boiled ham in lightly salted water, remove the bones, put the fillets in the pan and fry until crusty.
2. Salad leaves cut into straws, tomatoes cut into two halves, chop cheese on a grater.
3. Put the first lettuce leaves in a deep salad bowl, put meat, tomatoes, crackers, grated cheese on them, pour all with dressing.
4. Preparation of the dressing: combine chopped garlic with mayonnaise, squeeze out lemon juice, add chopped greens, mix everything thoroughly.
5. Caesar salad with mayonnaise and sausage
Ingredients:
• Peking salad - beam floor;
• a piece of boiled sausage without fat;
• Dutch cheese - 150 g;
• 1 smoked chicken breast;
• a pack of white crackers;
• a little mayonnaise;
• 5 g of salt.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the Beijing salad, chop the delicate part of the head of the strips.
2. Cut the sausage into small cubes, chop the cheese into slices.
3. Divide smoked breast fillet, remove bones. Break the chicken flesh with your hands in small pieces.
4. Put all the ingredients in a deep salad bowl, sprinkle with crackers, pour with mayonnaise, add salt to it and mix thoroughly.
5. Serving on the table, decorate the salad with parsley.
6. Caesar salad with homemade mayonnaise and anchovies
Ingredients:
• 2 eggs;
• lettuce greens - five large leaves;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• Dijon mustard - 10 ml;
• wine vinegar - 30 ml;
• olive oil - 4 tablespoons;
• canned anchovies - 2 pieces;
• white bread - 5 pieces;
• 4 tablespoons of Worcester sauce;
• A slice of Parmesan cheese.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse lettuce leaves to break hands medium pieces, put in a cup. 2. Dice white bread, dry in the oven and put in a cup of lettuce leaves.
3. Prepare homemade mayonnaise: in a small cup, beat 2 eggs with a fork, add a little wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, Worcester sauce, chopped garlic, beat again. With constant stirring, pour in olive oil. Beat until thick consistency.
4. Squeeze lemon juice into a cup of salad, add chopped cheese, pour homemade mayonnaise.
5. Add anchovies to the salad, mix thoroughly, spread parsley and dill on top nicely. You can also decorate the dish with cherry tomatoes.
Caesar salad with mayonnaise - secrets and subtleties
• Lettuce leaves do not darken if you do not cut them, but tear them with your hands. Tastes best when using Romain salad.
• If the lettuce leaves, lying in the fridge, have lost their appearance, you can refresh and give them the original freshness by putting them for 15-20 minutes in ice water.
• The interesting taste of the salad will give crackers with a light garlic taste. It’s easy to make them: squeeze a few cloves of garlic on hot oil in a frying pan, lightly fry them, carefully remove the garlic, and put the previously prepared croutons in the butter for a couple of minutes.
• Prepare Caesar salad just before serving on a la carte plates. “Stopped” salad will soften, losing its taste and appetizing appearance.
• You can decorate a ready-made Caesar salad to your liking: boiled quail eggs, cherry halves, cucumber or sweet pepper rings, and sprigs of greens. Enjoy your meal.
