Caesar salad dressing Probably, the salad "Caesar" - one of the mostelegant salads of our cuisine. This high-ranking overseas visitor has not yet become a familiar everyday dish for us and still remains an expensive restaurant dish. Of course, we are talking about the real "Caesar", and not about those surrogates with chicken, dressed with mayonnaise, which are cooked in cookery and are sold in plastic pouches. The original recipe for "Caesar" includes a very rare (for our kitchen) component - Worcestersky sauce. Strictly speaking, Caesar salad sauce makes this dish unusual, exquisite and "elegant". And if the recipe of the salad is known to almost everyone, then few people know about the "right" refueling. Those who prepare this salad at home, in the old manner, fill it with mayonnaise or in the pursuit of originality they add anchovy or spicy sprat fillets to the salad. However, even the home version of the sauce for "Caesar" can try to bring it closer to the present. This is what we will try to do - pick up the sauce recipe, which as much as possible will bring it closer to the original taste of "Caesar".

Classic Caesar Sauce

Deeply mistaken is the one who believes that the recipeThe classic Caesar salad included anchovies. The specific taste of the original salad was explained by the presence of fish (wester) sauce in it, although in modern interpretation the classic American "Caesar" is a salad with anchovies, and not with a chicken or with bacon. But there are so many options for making this salad that you can argue hoarse about which one is real. Today, Caesar salad is prepared with fish, chicken, shrimps, and bacon, and sauces for it use the most incredible. But the original sauce recipe is very simple and includes the following ingredients:

  • Egg - 1 piece;
  • Olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
  • Lime - 1 piece;
  • Worcestersky sauce - half a teaspoon.

Preparation: Prepare this dressing is not so easy, even with a bottle of this Worcester sauce. To begin with, you have to learn to cook an egg. A raw egg (in a shell) should be put in boiling water for one minute, taken out and immediately broken and poured into a bowl. After this, add freshly squeezed juice of one lime or lemon, olive oil and mix it all up well. In the end, you need to pour half a teaspoon of Worcestershire (Worcestershire) sauce into the mixture and mix again. The sauce is ready, and you can fill the salad. Caesar salad with chicken

Worcester sauce

This exotic to cook at home,is also possible. So if you get this ingredient in the vast expanses of modern supermarkets, you risk to cook it yourself. Ingredients:

  • Soy sauce - a half cup;
  • Onion - 1 onion;
  • Garlic - 2 cloves;
  • Fresh ginger root - 1 piece;
  • Buds of a carnation - 1 teaspoon;
  • Mustard seeds - 3 tablespoons;
  • Cardamom - 1 teaspoon;
  • Black pepper peas - 1 teaspoon;
  • Water - a half cup;
  • Curry - half a teaspoon;
  • Red ground pepper - half a teaspoon;
  • Cinnamon stick - 2 cm;
  • Balsamic vinegar - 2 cups;
  • Tamarind - 50 g;
  • Sugar - half a glass;
  • Salt - 3 tablespoons;
  • Anchovies - 2 pieces.

Preparation: Garlic, onions and ginger root should be cut into pieces and wrapped in gauze together with seeds of mustard, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon. Marlu tied in the form of a bag and put it on the bottom of the pan. In the same pan, add the flesh of Indian tamarind dates and sugar, pour in soy sauce, vinegar and boil everything on a small fire. Next, you need to boil the mixture for another forty minutes. The next step is to prepare anchovies. They should be finely chopped, add salt and curry, pour cold water, mix and pour into a sauce prepared on fire. Boil all together for another five minutes, remove the pan from the fire, and pour the contents into a glass bottle or jar. Sauce should be infused in a cold place for at least two weeks, after which a bag of spices is removed from it, and the sauce is bottled. Store it in the refrigerator, and shake before use. It would seem that nothing is complicated. However, to prepare this sauce is still problematic. For example, where do you get the exotic Indian tamarind date? At best, you will be able to buy a paste from it. Therefore, we suggest you choose an alternative recipe for Caesar salad sauce.

Honey sauce

This sauce recipe will suit almost any version of "Caesar": with chicken, with shrimps or with bacon. To make it, we need the following ingredients:

  • 2 eggs;
  • juice of half a lemon;
  • 1 teaspoon of liquid honey;
  • 10 teaspoons (50 ml) of olive oil;
  • 1 pinch of salt;
  • 1 teaspoon sweet mustard;
  • 1-2 cloves of garlic.

Preparation: Raw eggs in the shell are lowered for one minute in boiling water, removed and cooled at room temperature. Next, grind the eggs with a blender, add to them all the ingredients in addition to olive oil and whisk. At the end we pour oil in a thin trickle. Note: For eggs not to burst when immersed in boiling water, they can be pre-stored in very warm salted water for about half an hour. sauce for Caesar salad

Raw egg sauce

This recipe is also suitable for "Caesar" with chicken or shrimps. Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs;
  • 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
  • 1 teaspoon French mustard;
  • 3 tablespoons of olive oil;
  • Salt, garlic, pepper - to your taste.

Preparation: This sauce is very easy to prepare. It is necessary to whip the egg yolks with a whisk, add all the other ingredients to them and mix again and lightly shake. Note: To prepare a sauce of varying degrees of density, you need to increase or decrease the amount of vegetable oil. By the way, this sauce can not only fill Caesar salad, but season them with boiled or fried chicken breasts or serve to any dish with chicken.

Sauce based on mayonnaise

Prepare a sauce for "Caesar" and can be based onthe usual for us mayonnaise with the addition of quite affordable parmesan cheese and anchovies. However, for a salad with chicken, this recipe is unlikely to be called suitable, but "Caesar" with shrimps they can fill. Ingredients:

  • 150 g of mayonnaise;
  • 50 g of Parmesan cheese;
  • 1 tablespoon anchovies;
  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice;
  • 2 cloves of garlic.

Preparation: The recipe for this sauce is more than simple. For him, you need to mix mayonnaise with grated cheese and lemon juice, and then add finely ripped anchovies and crushed garlic.

Sauce with cheese tofu

This is a recipe for sauce with soy cheese. By the way, such cheese perfectly replaces mayonnaise in different sauces for dressing salads. Ingredients:

  • 1 lemon;
  • 8 cloves of garlic;
  • 2 tablespoons sweet granular mustard;
  • 4 olives without pits;
  • 6 tablespoons of olive oil;
  • 2 anchovies;
  • 450 g of tofu cheese;
  • Pepper and salt are at your discretion.

Preparation: First, lightly fry garlic in vegetable oil, and then spread it (along with the butter) into a blender. We add fillet of anchovies, olives, mustard, lemon juice, tofu and make a homogeneous puree. Continuing to beat, pour the remaining oil (a thin trickle or drop by drop) and put the spices. Note: When the sauce recipe (except for Worcester) includes anchovies, it is a question of canned fish. In extreme cases, anchovies can be replaced with spicy salted sprat, and fresh anchovies - anchovy. As you can see, Caesar salad sauce can be prepared according to the classical version, or you can dream up on this topic. In the end, there's always a place in the kitchen for the impromptu. By the way, the Caesar salad is also an impromptu, recognized as a culinary classics. So cook with pleasure! Enjoy your appetite and successful impromptu. We advise you to read:

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