One of the most popular and fashionable salads, which are most often ordered in restaurants and prepared for home holidays, is considered to be Caesar. A salad with chicken and a host of other ingredients owes its popularity to its unusual taste and ease of preparation. Let's try and we will master this wonderful salad.
Salad history
Once, an Italian of American descent, during the celebration of Independence Day of America, was forced to reflect on the question: “How to feed so many people?” Due to the sudden influx of hungry visitors to his restaurant. A resourceful restaurant owner named Caesar Cardini decided to quickly build something from what was at hand. Salad leaves, boiled eggs, garlic, cheese and fried croutons, the cook seasoned with olive oil and served. Thus was born the classic Caesar! Salad with chicken, bacon, fish, shrimp and crackers, having acquired a huge number of different cooking options, instantly spread around the world. Today there are recipes even with nuts and pineapples.
How to cook Caesar salad with chicken?
• Cut white bread (several slices) into strips and place on a baking sheet. Dry in the oven to make crackers.
• Make garlic butter. To do this, put the garlic (a couple of cloves) in the oil heated in a pan. When the oil is hot, remove the garlic.
• Fry crackers in this garlic oil .
• Soak one large bunch of lettuce in cold water for an hour. This is to keep the salad crispy. Then dry it.
• Chicken, diced, until cooked in vegetable oil. To salt.
• Peel the boiled eggs (3 pcs.) And separate the yolks from the proteins. After that, knead the yolks with a fork until smooth.
• Pour 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, a spoonful of mustard into the yolks and squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic through a press. Add vegetable oil (100 g) and salt, pepper and mix well. We have prepared salad dressing.
• Cheese (can be Parmesan) grate.
• Hands tear the prepared salad and put it on the bottom of the dish.
• Put one package of cherry tomatoes on top of the salad.
• Put chicken on top.
• Pour the cooked dressing and mix the salad.
• Pour crackers on top
• “Caesar” - salad with chicken - must be sprinkled with cheese.
Another option: Caesar salad with chicken and mushrooms
For convenience, we will use the dosage in the volume of the glass.
• Mix boiled chicken meat, cut into strips (about 2 cups) with green salad (about 6 cups), after tearing it in pieces.
• Boil and chop the mushrooms (2 cups of champignons) and pour them into the bowl in which you prepare the salad. Send cherry tomatoes (a glass) that were previously cut into halves. Stir together.
• Prepare a mayonnaise dressing. Incomplete glass of mayonnaise, grated cheese (half a glass), lemon juice (quarter glass), two finely chopped cloves of garlic and a tablespoon of anchovy paste (optional) combine in a small container and mix well.
• Pour the salad evenly with mayonnaise dressing, close the lid tightly and send to the Caesar refrigerator. A salad with chicken and mushrooms will be ready in 4 hours.
• Stir the salad again before serving.
If you liked the very principle of preparing Caesar salad, try fried shrimp instead of mushrooms and chicken.
Fry the bread sticks fried with garlic on salad leaves, fried shrimp on top, then coarsely grated parmesan or another kind of hard cheese. The composition of the fill includes: a beaten raw egg, a spoonful of mustard, juice from half a lemon, olive oil (about 100 ml), a spoonful of vinegar, pepper and salt. Pour salad over with this compound.
Try to come up with your original version of this salad.