Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a classic Caesar salad with salmon? Prepare the ingredients. The fish will need red salted. You can buy ready-made or pickle it yourself. I took quail eggs, you can take ordinary ones, just cut them smaller. Tomatoes are better suited to cherry, small ones. You can take any leaf salad.
Step 2:
First of all, prepare the croutons for the salad. How to make croutons? Cut the bread into small cubes. Take better white bread. Fry them in a frying pan over low heat, adding chopped garlic and salt, until lightly crispy. You can add a little oil when frying, but I like crackers without oil.
Step 3:
Put well-washed and dried lettuce leaves in a salad bowl. It is better not to cut the salad, but to tear it with your hands. From contact with metal, lettuce oxidizes faster and loses its shape. I took a salad mix, an iceberg will do well, and the most correct Caesar is prepared with Romano salad.
Step 4:
Remove the red fish (I have it ready) from the package and cut into medium pieces. Add the fish to the salad plate.
Step 5:
Boil the quail eggs. To do this, put them in cold water, bring to a boil and then cook for 5 minutes. Then fill them with cold water, cool and clean. Cut each egg into two parts and add to the salad.
Step 6:
Wash cherry tomatoes, dry and cut into quarters. Put them in a salad bowl.
Step 7:
Add fried pieces of bread to the salad.
Step 8:
Sprinkle the whole salad with grated Parmesan cheese and just before serving add the Caesar sauce.
Step 9:
Prepare the products for making the sauce "Caesar". Take the mustard soft to the taste, I have French. Olive oil or any vegetable oil. Instead of the scarce Worcestershire sauce, I use balsamic vinegar.
Step 10:
How to make sauce? Put the egg in boiling water for a minute, then take it out, break the shell and pour its contents into a blender container. Add chopped garlic, mustard, vinegar or Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, then whisk everything until smooth with an immersion blender. Pour in the oil in a thin stream. Whisk the Caesar salad sauce for another minute. The consistency of it should be like sour cream.
Step 11:
You can buy a ready-made sauce, you can make an authentic one using all the necessary ingredients without replacing them, or you can make a lightweight version using, for example, natural yogurt. All options are suitable, choose according to taste and capabilities. Pour the Caesar with the resulting sauce and serve immediately to the table so that the crackers do not soften. Enjoy your meal!
The salad was named not after Guy Julius Caesar, but after the person most often called the author of this dish, the American chef of Italian origin Caesar Cardini, who in the 20-40s of the XX century owned several restaurants in the city of Tijuana, located in Mexico. According to legend, the salad was invented by Cardini on July 4, 1924 (the Independence Day of the USA), when there was almost nothing left in the kitchen, and visitors demanded food. In 1953, Caesar salad was marked by the Epicurean Society in Paris as the best recipe that has appeared in America over the past 50 years. (Wikipedia)
Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.
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.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Steamed salmon - 197 kcal/100g
- Boiled salmon - 189 kcal/100g
- Fresh salmon - 140 kcal/100g
- Mustard canteen - 417 kcal/100g
- Mustard - 417 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Quail egg - 168 kcal/100g
- Lemon juice - 16 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- Parmesan cheese 45% fat content - 389 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Pepper - 26 kcal/100g
- Cherry tomatoes - 15 kcal/100g
- White bread - 266 kcal/100g
- Balsamic vinegar - 88 kcal/100g
- Lettuce leaves - 12 kcal/100g