Salad "Caesar" is named after its creator - the chef, not in honor of Julius Caesar - the famous general of the Roman Empire. Salad was invented by a man named Caesar Cardini 4 iyulya1924 year. Caesar Cardini was born around near Lake Maggiore (Italy) in 1896; he and his brother Alex emigrated to the United States after the First World War. Cardini ran a restaurant in Tijuana.
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Who came up with the salad "Caesar"?
The history of the "Caesar" is as follows: food delivery to the restaurant Cardini was late and not to disappoint the customer, he decided to make a meal in a hurry from the available ingredients.
Among them were romaine lettuce, garlic croutons, parmesan, olive oil, eggs and Worcestershire sauce. Visitors were more than pleasantly surprised by the combination of such products and enthusiastically greeted the new dish. Soon the "Caesar" was a hit, and people started coming from all over the country just to try a new salad. By the way, the original name was "Caesar salad" rather than a salad "Caesar".
Spread salad "Caesar" in Europe associated with Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, who was the mistress and eventually became the wife of Prince Edward VIII of Wales. Simpson frequented the restaurant Cardini, when she was in Tijuana, and during his travels began to instruct other chefs how to make "Caesar".
Thanks to her, we found the recipe for this wonderful, unusual salad, which was loved by all.
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The original salad recipe
Ingredients:
1 head romaine lettuce,
1 egg,
3 tbsp. l. red wine vinegar,
2 large garlic cloves,
3 tbsp. l. olive oil,
1 lemon,
1 h. L. Worcestershire sauce,
1/4 Art. l. ground mustard
1/2 Art. grated Parmesan cheese,
150-200 grams of toast,
50 g anchovy fillets,
Salt and pepper to taste.
Instructions for preparation:
Wash the romaine carefully and wrap it in a paper towel so that it absorbed moisture. Then put in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or more.
In a bowl pour the olive oil, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, mustard, garlic and lemon juice. Mix thoroughly.
Heat the water to a boil, drop your back raw egg and let stand for 1 minute. Then remove the egg from the water and let cool. After cooling, add the egg into the sauce and whisk together.
Mash the desired number of anchovies and add them to refuel. If you wish to leave a certain amount for garnish.
Place the torn romaine leaves in a large bowl. Pour the dressing on top and toss lightly. Add the grated parmesan, garlic croutons and freshly ground pepper and stir. Serve immediately!
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Recipe salad "Caesar" with smoked chicken
Ingredients:
For the croutons:
100 grams of bread, cut into cubes of 2.5 cm,
olive oil,
salt and freshly ground black pepper.
For the sauce:
1 egg yolk,
½ lemon (juice only)
50 ml of cream
50 ml unsweetened yogurt or sour cream,
2 tbsp. l. chopped anchovies,
25 g parmesan (grated)
salt and freshly ground black pepper.
For the salad:
1 romaine lettuce (chopped or torn hands)
100-150 g smoked chicken (minced)
25 g parmesan (grated)
1 h. L. chopped mint
salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Cooking method:
To make the croutons in a large bowl, mix the bread and butter until completely absorbed well and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Fry the bread cubes until golden brown and crisp, then place on a kitchen towel to excess oil glass.
To make the sauce, in a large bowl, whisk together all the dressing ingredients and then season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Toss romaine and smoked chicken with the sauce, then put in a large dish.
Sprinkle Parmesan cheese, croutons and mint and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
Serve "Caesar" with smoked Kurets immediately to the table. Bon Appetit!
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How it all began
The main way
Variations on the theme of "Caesar salad with chicken"
Few exotics
Simple, nutritious and delicious
Caesar salad - perhaps the most famous in the world of salad. For Americans, it means the same as for the Russians salad "Olivier" and for the Greeks - "Greek". Oddly enough, his name is not associated with any of a Roman emperor. The inventor of the recipe was an American of Italian descent polumafiozi named Caesar Cardini. With his light hand appeared well then salad recipe "Caesar with chicken."
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How it all began
He was the owner of the restaurant, hotel and underground casino, located in the town of Tijuana, 20 km from the US border. The business prospered, as there gathered wealthy Americans to enjoy plenty of alcohol (in the US in the 20s of the 20th century introduced the "dry law", and Mexico on its effect did not apply).
July 4, 1924 - US Independence Day - the hotel came from Hollywood valiant servants of the silver screen: celebrate. It had a lot of alcohol, and with the food turned out to be a problem.
Came to help savvy and resourceful Caesar unwittingly invented the salad, which later became the "classic" American cuisine.
That's what he did:
salad bowl rubbed with garlic inside,
on its bottom and sides put lettuce,
sbryznul olive oil
Add the egg, varivsheesya exactly 1 minute in boiling water,
Grind parmesan cheese,
put in a bowl a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice,
cut into cubes of white bread croutons, roasted in the oven with olive oil,
liberally sprinkled salad with herbs (tarragon, and preference was given to the basilica)
dripped a little Worcestershire sauce,
all quickly stir until completely enveloping dressing ingredients, spread in a la carte dishes and serve.
This is a classic version of the recipe Caesar salad. After a while, the brother Cardini - Alex began to add to the dish anchovies, and even a little later to the components added chicken. "Caesar" with anchovies called "Salad Aviator" as Alex Cardini took part in World War II as a pilot.
Recipe of the tender salad has its own secrets.
One of them was inherited Caesar Cardini from his mother cooked egg for filling exactly one minute in boiling water, then cool down for 10-15 minutes.
2-3 hours before cooking, the eggs need to get out of the fridge, so that they have reached room temperature.
Here's a fairly straightforward story of the origin of this simple but extremely tasty lettuce.
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The main way
But how to prepare classic "Caesar salad with chicken."
For him, we need: 1 City bun (fresh), a pound of chicken, salad kocheshok 1, 6-7 pomidorin "cherry", 100 grams of cheese such as Parmesan cheese, a couple of cloves of garlic, olive oil. The dressing will need: 3 eggs, a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, 1 small spoon mustard, salt and pepper, olive oil, garlic (2 cloves).
Cooking process:
On a baking sheet, greased with olive oil, pour chopped into small dice roll, fry until dry (do not forget to stir occasionally).
At this time, we warm up in a pan olive oil and fry the garlic on it. Then, remove it, and oil dozharivaem crackers.
Finely cut the chicken and fry in vegetable oil. When the fillet is ready, salt it.
Boil the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks.
Yolks rub on a small grater or mash with a fork, put the yolk mixture into the mustard, lemon juice, pressed garlic and olive oil. It will be a salad dressing.
Shred the cheese in any convenient way.
Tomatoes cut in half.
In a deep bowl of salad leaves decompose, in turn, spread the top "cherry" and the chicken and pour sauce.
All the mix, add at the end of crackers and cheese.
By the way, Caesar Cardini after a successful debut with the recipe, later became spread crackers in the already mixed salad.
If you do not have time to fuss with dressing, and the guests are literally on the doorstep, it is possible to reduce the manufacturing recipe and fill the classic salad with mayonnaise, instead of home, buy ready-made croutons. Of course, the taste of food will be dramatically different.
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Variations on the theme of "Caesar salad with chicken"
In recent years, a host of culinary options for a classic salad "Caesar salad with chicken." We bring you some of them.
"Caesar salad with chicken and mushrooms"
Very easy to prepare, but incredibly tasty salad. Boil half chicken meat and tear it into fiber. Wash the lettuce and divide into leaves. Cook the chopped mushrooms (0, 3 kg). You can buy canned. 100g finely grate parmesan cheese.
Take a separate bowl. Mix it 4-5 tablespoons spoons of mayonnaise, cheese, a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 crushed cloves of garlic, 20 g of anchovy paste (to taste). So we cooked filling.
On the dish lay lettuce leaves, place on top of the chicken, mushrooms and tomatoes. Then mayonnaise dressing evenly over top of salad, a plate or cover it with another dish and refrigerate for 4 hours. Before serving, mix the dressing.
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Few exotics
"Caesar salad with chicken breast and shrimp"
The recipe for this dish is perfect for those who love the gentle blend of chicken and seafood. A cooking process combines classic and modern culinary techniques.
Necessary ingredients: 400 grams of chicken white meat, a cup of cooked and peeled shrimp, green salad, 3 tablespoons grated cheese "Parmesan", 1 fresh rolls, 2 eggs, half a cup of olive oil, a little mustard, balsamic vinegar, a couple of cloves of garlic, 2 teaspoons spoons of sugar, spices (basil, oregano, thyme, pepper), salt.
Cooking will be as follows:
Chicken notch in some places, salt, pepper, obmazhte olive oil, wrap in foil and bake for 20 minutes. Then open the foil, sprinkle the chicken with spices, wrap and send it back in the oven for another 10 minutes.
While our baked chicken, do crunches. In the olive oil fry finely chopped garlic. When the oil is fed with garlic flavor, remove it and add the chopped bun. Fry until golden brown.
Boil the eggs as did the author of "Caesar" - boil them for exactly one minute. Beat the eggs, put them in olive oil, mustard, vinegar and sugar. Stir until smooth mass. Filling is ready.
Spread on a platter of lettuce leaves, sprinkle with a little filling. Chicken cut into cubes, place it on top of the lettuce. Then add the shrimp.
Pour salad dressing and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and croutons. At the end of the meal mix gently and serve.
"Caesar salad with chicken and avocado"
Slightly exotic and unusual name gives the salad an aura of mystery. In fact it is - one of the simplest recipes "Caesar" and takes a minimum of time.
4 chicken breasts sprinkle spices of your choice and send it under the grill for 15 minutes. The oven make croutons of white bread, sprinkle with salt, garlic and herbs (oregano, basil, tarragon).
Cut lettuce (2 things), avocado and mix them with chicken and croutons. For this kind of "Caesar" will suit any salad dressing, including the one that is prepared for the classical variant.
Salad "Caesar salad with chicken and Adygei cheese"
All those who love Caucasian cuisine, come to the delight of this recipe: a combination of salt Adygei cheese, crispy lettuce and tender chicken.
You will need: 1 chicken, kocheshok lettuce, 2 tomatoes, ready crackers with cheese flavor or make them yourself, 150 g Adygei cheese, salt, sauce "Cheese Caesar."
Fry or boil the chicken, salt and pepper.
Cheese and diced tomatoes.
Tear the lettuce and arrange on a platter.
Add the chicken, cheese and tomatoes.
All mix and season with sauce.
"Caesar salad with chicken breast in Moroccan"
Cooks from the hot Morocco decided to compete with the Americans and show that also know how to reinvent the least tasty salads.
For the preparation of the Moroccan option "Caesar" we need: 4 chicken, olive oil - 150 g, salad, fresh mint 50 g, 30 g of honey, 100 g of sour cream, 1 lemon and 1 white bread bun. Home "highlight" of this recipe - sauce for pouring.
Chicken breast baked in foil, previously smeared with olive oil, salt and spices.
Grate the garlic bread and make it in the oven croutons.
Olive oil, lemon juice, honey, mint, lemon and black pepper in a blender to whip until smooth.
On lettuce lay chicken, pour the sauce and sprinkle with croutons.
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Simple, nutritious and delicious
"Caesar salad with chicken and feta"
This tasty recipe for the fans of diets and slim figure. Low Calorie "Caesar" is prepared as follows:
over very low heat prepared with bread croutons,
boiled white chicken caruncle,
cut lettuce, feta cheese (200 g) and tomatoes "cherry" (3-4 things), rubbed with 100 g of parmesan,
lettuce leaves laid out on a plate, top - chicken, tomatoes, feta cheese and crackers. Salt and pepper to taste, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
"Caesar salad with chicken in pita"
If the previous salad suitable for the conservation of a wasp waist, then this recipe is like the men and those who love to eat dense. Incidentally, something similar can be found in the network Mac'Donalds.
Prerequisites: 2 thin pita bread, 400 grams of chicken fillet, 100 grams of salad, 3 tbsp. l. grated Parmesan cheese, half a cup of olive oil, 40 grams of vinegar, 1 tablespoon mustard (preferably grains), salt, spices, mayonnaise (optional), 1 garlic tooth.
Chicken fry in butter, salt and pepper, cut diagonally. In a blender make the sauce: olive oil, mustard, garlic, vinegar, salt and pepper.
Spread on pita bread salad leaves, then chicken, pour the sauce and wrapped in an envelope or roll.
This version of "Caesar" can take on a picnic, to prepare in advance sauce and fillets, and make rolls, arrived at the place.
"Caesar salad with chicken and mustard sauce"
Abundance of vitamins in this classic and simple recipes can only envy.
Prepare salad: half a head of cabbage Chinese cabbage, half a pack a mixture of salad leaves (sold in any large supermarket), 5 tomatoes, a half loaf of white bread, a couple of teeth of garlic, 200 ml of olive oil, 5 testicles, 4 table spoon of prepared mustard, 4 egg yolks 30 g of apple cider vinegar, a tablespoon anchovy, spices.
Fry fillets, tear lettuce into pieces, boiled eggs and tomatoes coarsely cut.
From loaves in the oven will do crumbs 1, 5x1, 5 cm.
Fry the garlic in the olive oil and pour them ready crackers.
Make the sauce: mustard, 4 egg yolks and whisk the vinegar in a blender, then gradually introduce the olive oil, anchovies and stir again.
We spread salad on top of chicken, eggs and tomatoes. All pour the sauce, stir and begin to eating.
Demonstrating imagination, you can decide to experiment with ingredients and sauces and invent options, because the technology of preparation of the classic salad you already know.
Bon Appetit!
