Most housewives prepare Caesar salad with chicken breast, but it is not the main ingredient of this popular snack. The main products in its composition are leaves of lettuce, croutons, cheese and a delicate sauce, which emphasizes a light piquancy of cheese and freshness of greens, creates a pleasant contrast with crispy crackers. These components are well combined not only with chicken, but also with salmon. Salad “Caesar” with red fish is cooked a little less than with poultry meat, but it turns out to be no less tasty, light and appetizing.
Cooking Features
Salad "Caesar" is prepared simply, but with a special technology. If you do not take into account a few moments, instead of the famous snack you can get a little appetizing dish.
- Caesar salad is especially tasty if the salad leaves are juicy and even slightly crispy. The most suitable are iceberg and romain lettuce leaves. Leaves of Peking cabbage will turn out to be a little more rough, but even more crunchy, but for Caesar you can take only the upper part of them.
- Lettuce leaves will be more succulent if they are put into ice water for an hour or two before use, then dried.
- Attempting to use purchased croutons for cooking Caesar salad is rarely successful. For appetizers, croutons with garlic or cheese flavor, crispy on the outside, but soft inside, are best. Make it easy at home. Garlic oil is first prepared: this is a common vegetable oil in which garlic is roasted or infused. Then diced white bread is fried in this butter. In conclusion, it remains to dry the rusks in the oven or microwave oven.
- Some housewives seasoned Caesar salad with mayonnaise. This is acceptable, but not the best option. A homemade sauce made from lightly cooked chicken eggs, lemon juice and olive oil will complement the snack in the best way, giving it a unique taste. If you do not have time to prepare the sauce at home, you can buy in the store a ready-made dressing, created specifically for the Caesar salad. It will be inferior to the home, but will cope with the task better than mayonnaise.
Red fish for Caesar salad can be used boiled, fried, baked, salted, smoked - the choice depends on the specific recipe. If all other ingredients are prepared correctly, the appetizer will have a harmonious taste and appetizing appearance.
Caesar salad with red fish
Composition:
- fillet of red fish (pink salmon, trout, salmon) - 0, 4 kg;
- romaine lettuce - 0, 2 kg;
- cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- baguette - 0, 2 kg;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- olive oil - 160 ml;
- egg yolks - 2 pcs .;
- Dijon mustard - 5 ml;
- Worcestershire sauce - 2-3 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Baguette peel off, cut into small cubes.
- Crush garlic with a press, pour a tablespoon of oil. Leave for half an hour.
- Cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice out of half the fruit. Add 2 tablespoons of oil.
- Wash the fish fillets, dry them with a napkin, cut them into portions, marinate for 20 minutes in a mixture of butter and lemon juice.
- Oil, in which lay garlic, strain. Brown the bread in it and dry them for 10 minutes in the oven.
- Fold the fish and bake in the oven until cooked. Cool, cut into cubes.
- Pound egg yolks with mustard, the juice of the second half of the lemon and Worcester sauce. Beat with a whisk or blender.
- Continuing to beat, partly add the remaining vegetable oil. The result should be a sauce resembling mayonnaise.
- Wash, dry the salad, tear it with your hands and put it on the dish. Pour sauce.
- Place cherry tomatoes and pieces of red fish cut in half on lettuce leaves. Pour the sauce, leaving quite a bit.
- Sprinkle with croutons, pour the remaining sauce.
- Grate cheese and sprinkle them with snacks.
This recipe for cooking Caesar salad with red fish is one of the most common. It can be attributed to the number of classic.
Caesar salad with lightly salted red fish
Composition:
- fillet of salted salmon or other red fish - 0, 2 kg;
- cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- iceberg lettuce - 150 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- croutons - 150 g;
- Caesar sauce - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Separate the right amount of leaves from the head of lettuce, wash them, dry, coarsely chop and place on a dish. Pour a small amount of sauce.
- Fillet of salted fish cut into cubes or slices, spread on lettuce leaves.
- Cut the tomatoes in half, spread between the pieces of salmon or other red fish. Pour sauce.
- Cut the cheese into small cubes or grate it. Along with the croutons spread over the salad. They can also be covered with a mesh of sauce.
The composition of this snack is similar to the recipe of the previous salad, but it will have a completely different taste.
Caesar salad made of smoked red fish with olives
Composition:
- Beijing cabbage - 100 g;
- smoked red fish (pink salmon will do) - 0.3 kg;
- pitted olives - 100 g;
- wheat crackers with garlic, salmon or cheese flavor - 80 g;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- soy sauce - 5 ml;
- Caesar sauce or mayonnaise - 100 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Coarsely cut the top of the cabbage leaves.
- Mix the sauce with soy sauce. Put half of the sauce to Peking cabbage, mix, put on a dish.
- Separate the meat from smoked fish from bones and skins, finely chop.
- Cut the olives in half, mix with the fish, put on the lettuce leaves.
- Add the croutons, pour the remaining sauce.
- Grate cheese and sprinkle other ingredients with cheese chips.
Salad made according to this recipe has a spicy taste. It will appeal to fans of not only European, but also Eastern cuisine.
How to decorate a Caesar salad with red fish
The technology of cooking Caesar salad does not involve mixing the ingredients, but laying them out in layers, followed by coating them with sauce. Due to this, the appetizer looks bright, elegant and at ease, however, many hostesses prefer to arrange it in their own way before serving. You can offer several options for decorating Caesar salad with red fish.
- It is easy to make flowers out of slices of red fish. To do this, it is enough to cut it into thin slices, roll one of them into a tube, then lay around the other pieces so that the created figure resembles a bud. This flower can be put on top snacks or on the edge of the dish.
- Sliced salmon can be spread out along the contour of the salad. This will give it a more festive look.
- If the snack includes cherry tomatoes, olives or olives, they can be arranged around the perimeter in a specific order. It will also look attractive.
When serving in portions, the Caesar salad can be spread out on the bowls. In them it will look very elegant and modern.
Caesar salad with red fish is a delicious dish worthy of a festive table. Cooking it does not require great skill, although the result will appeal to even the fastidious gourmets.
