Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make Caesar with Peking cabbage and chicken classic? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Yesterday's bread is better. Take a large egg. Rinse tomatoes, lemon and cabbage and spinach leaves in clean water and dry.
Step 2:
Rinse the chicken under running water. If the breasts are not cut, remove the skin and remove the bones. They can be used in another dish, for example, to cook broth. Cut the fillet into pieces about 1 cm thick. Wipe the resulting pieces with a paper towel so that there is no moisture left and there are fewer splashes when frying. Beat off the fillet a little, season each piece with salt and spices.
Step 3:
Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil over medium heat and lay out the chicken pieces. Increase the heat and fry on both sides until golden brown.
Step 4:
To remove excess oil, put the chicken on a plate covered with several layers of paper towels. Cool completely.
Step 5:
Cut the crust from the bread and cut into small cubes with a side of about 1x1 cm.
Step 6:
Peel and wash the garlic, crush the clove with the handle of a knife. Heat a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil over medium heat, transfer the garlic to it.
Step 7:
Then transfer the sliced bread and fry it on all sides until golden brown, then cool. I fried crackers in 2 sets, so it took me 2 cloves of garlic.
Step 8:
Remove the dark and flaccid leaves from the Peking cabbage, if there are any. Dense parts are also not needed, they are not juicy and can spoil the taste of the salad. Tear or cut the cabbage leaves into medium or large pieces.
Step 9:
Cut the stalk from the tomato and cut the tomatoes into medium slices.
Step 10:
Grate the cheese. Choose the size according to your taste, as you like.
Step 11:
Cut the cooled chicken into slices no more than 3 mm thick.
Step 12:
Fill the egg with cold water and put it on the stove. After boiling, cook over medium heat for one minute. Then lower the egg into cold water.
Step 13:
Peel the last clove of garlic, wash and grate on a fine grater or pass through a press. In a deep whipping container, break the prepared egg, put mustard, garlic, salt, oil, Worcestershire sauce, crushed garlic. Squeeze out the juice of half a lemon there.
Step 14:
Whisk all the ingredients until smooth. The sauce should be quite liquid.
Step 15:
Salad can be served both in a large salad bowl and in portions. Mix the lettuce and spinach leaves, pour the sauce over them and mix easily.
Step 16:
Then lay out the chicken pieces and tomato. Sprinkle everything generously with grated cheese. Spread the crackers evenly on top and serve the salad. Add crackers immediately before serving the dish so that they do not get wet and spoil the salad.
Anchovies are necessarily added to the real Caesar sauce. But they are hard to find on sale, so I cooked without them.
The classic Caesar recipe is prepared with Romano salad, or Iceberg, but it also turns out very tasty with Peking cabbage!
Choose juicy tomatoes, but dense. Soft fruits do not keep their shape well, in the process of slicing and cooking they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the dish.
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Lemon - 16 kcal/100g
- Lemon zest - 47 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavsky cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Soviet cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheese "steppe" - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglichsky cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400 kcal/100g
- Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363 kcal/100g
- Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Aiadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Fat yellow cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyere cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Spinach - 22 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Chinese cabbage - 16 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Cherry tomatoes - 15 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g
- White bread - 266 kcal/100g
- Worcestershire sauce - 78 kcal/100g
- Mustard ready - 418 kcal/100g
- Italian herbs blend - 259 kcal/100g