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Caesar salad

Ceasar salad is a classic of North American cuisine. It consists of lettuce served with croutons and the famous Caesar dressing. Here's my own version.

81K 18 4.2

Last modified on: November 25^th 2012

Keywords for this recipe:Salad Caesar American recipe Croutons Sauce

For 4 people, you will need:

1 100 g cream
2 1 hard-boiled egg
3 2 tablespoons olive oil
4 1 tablespoon white (spirit) vinegar
5 ½ lemon
6 1 teaspoon French mustard
7 Tabasco
8 30 g Parmigiano reggiano (Parmesan)
9 ½ garlic clove (optional)
10 salt
11 pepper
12 1 lettuce
13 4 slices bread
14 3 tablespoons olive oil
15 parsley
Total weight: 845 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
34 min.	3 min.	37 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Put into a blender goblet: 1 hard-boiled egg, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon white (spirit) vinegar, the juice of ½ lemon, 1 teaspoon French mustard, Tabasco to taste, 30 g Parmigiano reggiano (Parmesan), ½ garlic clove, salt and pepper.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Blend until evenly mixed and that's your Casar dressing prepared. Check the seasoning then set aside.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Prepare the lettuce and shred 'en chiffonade'.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Cut 4 slices bread into small croutons. Remove the crust if you wish.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a frying pan and fry the croutons until golden brown.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Trim and chop the parsley then add to the lettuce.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Add the Caesar dressing and mix well.

Add the croutons and mix again briefly.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Finish with a few shavings of Parmesan. Your Caesar salad is ready.

Remarks

It is easy to adapt the Caesar dressing - with its many ingredients - to your own taste, so do try your own variations. It might not be the "real" recipe, but so what?

Keeping

About 2 hours in the fridge, once the dressing has been added.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,228 Kcal or 5,141 Kj	39 gr	146 gr	118 gr
61 %	15 %	14 %	18 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
145 Kcal or 607 Kj	5 gr	17 gr	14 gr
7 %	2 %	2 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
307 Kcal or 1,285 Kj	10 gr	36 gr	30 gr
15 %	4 %	3 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 4.88 €
Per person : 1.22 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), Bounty-style tart for Alison, "Day After Pork Belly" Soup, Mushroom buckwheat pancakes, Thin summer tart "à la grecque", ... All
	Parmigiano reggiano (Parmesan): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pea risotto "mantecare", Broad bean salad with Parmesan, Turnip and Jerusalem artichoke soup, Potimarron and Parmesan tart, Parmesan cauliflower cheese, ... All
	Bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Baby spinach salad, Home-made breadcrumb coating, Auvergnat tartines, Salad lyonnaise, Bistro-style red endive salad, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fish terrine with spinach and tomatoes, Sautéed pork with mushrooms in a cream sauce., Stuffed mushrooms au gratin, Veal Marengo, Roasted cauliflower, ... All

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