Caesar salad with salmon: recipes, cooking features and reviews

The world famous Caesar salad is a North American dish. It is served in all establishments - from an elite restaurant to a simple cafe.

There is a traditional variant of cooking this dish, where the main ingredients are crackers, chicken and special Caesar dressing. There are also varieties of salad where red fish or shrimp is used instead of meat.

In this article, we will consider recipes for Caesar with salmon.

About Caesar Salad

The dish was created in the 20s of the XX century by a cook who has Italian roots and owns several establishments in Mexico - Caesar Cardini.

According to the legendary story, the salad was invented at the moment when the dry law "ruled" in the yard and there were almost no products left in the kitchen. So Caesar prepared the dish "from what was."

In the classic version, the main components are: crackers (croutons) made from pieces of white bread, fried in vegetable oil (usually olive or sunflower mixture) with chopped garlic, Parmesan cheese and lettuce (iceberg, romaine, lettuce).

Well, and, of course, a special dressing (several methods of preparation of which will also be discussed in the article).

To give Caesar salad satiety a little later, chicken, slightly salted (smoked, fried, steam) fish or shrimps were added to it.

By the way, a dish in the 50s of the same century was noted in Paris as the best recipe that appeared on the territory of the American continent over the past half century.

About the benefits of salmon

It should be noted that in many world restaurants and cafes several varieties of Caesar salad are served. This is a classic version (with chicken), and with salmon (salmon), with shrimp (regular or tiger). The same thing is in the institutions that are located throughout Russia.

It has long been known that for the Russian people, salmon has long been one of the most important components of traditional cuisine. Especially often she was eaten on fasting days.

That is why the options for cooking Caesar salad with salmon were especially fond of in the Russian Federation. This dish is also served in restaurants, bars and cafes. They also cook at home.

Salmon is a sea fish, but spawning comes to the rivers.

It is quite healthy, nutritious and tasty. Despite the high fat content, it is often included in lean and dietary dishes.

Salmon contains protein, amino acids, melatonin, fatty acids, iron, potassium, fluorine, iodine, vitamins A, B, D.

Use of this product is shown:

• people with sleep problems;
• suffering from heart disease;
• with thrombophlebitis;
• high blood pressure;
• high blood cholesterol;
• weak immunity;
• exposed to the sun above normal.

Therefore, Caesar salad with salmon will be especially useful and healing for the whole family - both for children and adults. After all, this fish is a source of irreplaceable substances, as well as tasty and tender.

Salad dressing

The very first version of cooking this version of the dish includes fresh eggs, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice and Worcester sauce.

Worcestershire or Worcester (Worcester) sauce is a fairly concentrated seasoning of English cuisine. Has a sweet and sour taste. It consists of 26 ingredients, including soy sauce, tomato paste, ginger, garlic, fish and others.

It is this sauce that gives the fishy flavor to Caesar's signature dressing (despite the widespread belief that anchovies are the main component).

Consider 2 ways to prepare this ingredient for a salad: with boiled yolks (homemade) and with anchovies.

First option

Simple enough and fast. It turns out that the dressing is tasty in its own way and fully emphasizes each component of Caesar with salmon (a recipe at home) or other “meat” components.

Cooking:

1. Boil 2 hard boiled eggs, cool, peel and separate the protein from the yolk.
2. Pass the garlic (10 grams) through the garlic.
3. Grind the yolks, add the garlic and table mustard (20 grams).
4. Prepare juice (50 milliliters) from fresh lemon and add to the mixture.
5. Pour salt (10 grams).
6. Vegetable oil (can be a mixture of olive and sunflower) in an amount of 100 milliliters is poured into a dressing, beat with a whisk or a blender.
7. Insist 20 minutes (the consistency should resemble sour cream).

Second option

This method of preparation involves the use of components such as balsamic vinegar and anchovies.

This recipe is considered a classic option (so to speak, the closest to the original source).

Cooking:

1. Bring a small amount of drinking water to a boil.
2. Lower 1 chicken egg and remove after a few seconds.
3. Then remove from the shell and pour into a container (blender bowl).
4. Add 3 grams of table mustard and lemon juice (20 milliliters), beat.
5. Gradually pour refined vegetable oil (50 milliliters).
6. Finely chop the fillet of canned anchovies (4 pieces), add to the sauce.
7. Pour 1 milliliter of balsamic vinegar.
8. Add salt (10 grams) and ground black pepper (3 grams), mix.

This option is quite suitable for the classic recipe "Caesar" with salmon.

With cherry and quail eggs

For this method of cooking, red fish salted at home is used.

An excellent version of Caesar salad with salmon and crackers, which will become the king of a festive or everyday table.

Components and preparation:

1. Make croutons from white bread (200 grams): chop into cubes and fry in olive oil (30 milliliters) with chopped garlic (10 grams).
2. Sprinkle hot crackers with salt and cool.
3. Hard boil quail eggs (7 pieces), chop into halves.
4. Lightly salted salmon (150 grams) chopped with straws.
5. Grate Parmesan cheese (50 grams).
6. Put salad leaves (100 grams), previously prepared and chopped by hand, on the dish.
7. Pour the Caesar dressing (prepare according to one of the options indicated above in the article).
8. Put slices of salmon and eggs.
9. Pour crackers evenly.
10. Cherry tomatoes (7 pieces) split in half and also spread on the surface of the dish.
11. Sprinkle with grated cheese.

Siberian recipe

This recipe for making a delicious salad has its own flavor - pine nuts in its composition. And dressing is made from quail eggs.

Components and stages of preparation of Caesar salad with salmon:

1. Cook crackers from slices of half a white loaf in the oven.
2. Grind slightly salted salmon (200 grams) and Parmesan cheese (50 grams).
3. Make the sauce: pour freshly squeezed lemon juice (50 milliliters) into the container, add quail eggs (6 pieces), garlic (5 grams), Dijon mustard (10 grams), salt (10 grams), ground black pepper (3 grams) .
4. Beat the mixture with a blender.
5. In the process, gradually pour in olive oil (100 milliliters).
6. Pre-prepared lettuce leaves (100 grams) put on a dish, tearing them by hand.
7. Pour some Caesar sauce.
8. Spread salmon and crackers evenly, pour over sauce.
9. Garnish with grated cheese and pine nuts (20 grams).

With steam salmon and Worcestershire sauce

A delicious classic “Caesar” with salmon, which uses Worcestershire sauce (as in the traditional version). And the fish is steamed. Thanks to these moments, the dish will be even more piquant and tender.

Ingredients and cooking steps:

1. Sprinkle salmon fillet (200 grams) with salt (10 grams) and ground black pepper (5 grams), pour olive oil (20 milliliters).
2. Cook in a double boiler.
3. Dice white rolls (100 grams), pour with vegetable oil (20 milliliters) and dry in the oven.
4. Grate Parmesan cheese (50 grams).
5. Wash and dry lettuce (100 grams), chop by hand.
6. Prepare Caesar sauce: boil a chicken egg in boiling water for 60 seconds, pour into a container, add olive oil (60 milliliters), chopped garlic (10 grams), freshly squeezed lemon juice (50 milliliters) and Worcestershire sauce (40 milliliters).
7. Beat the mixture until smooth.
8. Put lettuce leaves on a dish and pour them with sauce, mix.
9. Add slices of chopped salmon and crackers.
10. Garnish with grated cheese.

With smoked salmon

An original way to cook the classic “Caesar” with salmon, where this ingredient is slightly smoked (at home or bought ready-made).

Thanks to this, the whole dish sounds in a new way.

Caesar dressing can be prepared according to one of the options that are higher in the article.

Description of the process and components:

1. Cook croutons from the crusts of the loaf (200 grams), frying them in olive oil (20 milliliters) with garlic (minced, 5 grams).
2. Grind smoked salmon (200 grams).
3. Boil a chicken egg (1 piece), cool and cut into 8 equal parts.
4. Put previously washed and dried lettuce leaves (50 grams), torn into medium pieces, on a flat dish.
5. Evenly apply part of the sauce, mix.
6. Put slices of salmon and eggs.
7. Pour over the sauce.
8. Put croutons and grated Parmesan cheese (20 grams).

Summary

There are also options for preparing Caesar salad with salmon, in which the fish is fried in olive oil, which in its own way affects the overall taste of the dish.

To give the appetizer an even brighter color, it is recommended to add black or green pitted olives (whole or halves).

According to the reviews of the hostesses, who have been using these recipes for cooking their favorite dish with salmon for a long time, the fish component especially subtly emphasizes the taste of the salad. It also adds usefulness and nutrition to Caesar in general.