Caesar salad with shrimp is no less popular than the classic version, with chicken. Below are several variations of the preparation of the dish, as well as recommendations for preparing the individual components of the salad - crackers and sauce.
Material Content:
Classic Shrimp Caesar Salad
- fresh lettuce;
- olive oil;
- raw ordinary shrimp - standard packaging;
- eggs
- black pepper;
- Cherry
- cheese;
- half a lemon;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- Caesar sauce;
- for boiling shrimp several branches of dill, 2-3 peas of allspice, lavrushka.
To begin with, we prepare shrimps: we clean them from the shell, head and insides, at this time we boil a decoction with bay leaf, several branches of dill, a couple of peas of allspice. As soon as the broth boils, lower the shrimp into it and cook 3-4 minutes after boiling the water. Ready shrimps are mixed with dressing from lemon juice, pressed garlic, oil and pepper, let soak for a quarter of an hour.
We cut the salad with the middle cube or tear it manually.
Boil eggs until tender. Clean, cut into quarters. If quail is used, it will be enough to divide them into halves.
We put greens, shrimps on a salad dish, arrange around with halves of cherry and pieces of eggs. Put the sauce in the center.
On a note. Regular shrimp are boiled for several minutes, king - up to 10-12 minutes, depending on size. Frozen food must first be thawed.
With the addition of crackers
Traditionally, Caesar salad, whether it is classic, with chicken or shrimp, is served with fragrant crispy crackers. They can be purchased at the store. Well suited products that relate to the "own production" of the supermarket. Simple snack crackers will not give the dish the desired flavor.
You can also cook crackers at home:
- We cut the wheat stick into cubes, heat a few drops of oil in a pan, squeeze the garlic clove and fry the crackers until golden. You do not need to add a lot of oil during frying.
- We remove wheat bread from the crust, cut it into thick slices, divide it into cubes, put it on a baking sheet, slightly sprinkle it with olive oil, sprinkle it a little with Italian herbs and pepper, and send it to the oven at 180 degrees. Depending on the company and model, the oven may “fry” more or less weakly, therefore it is necessary to monitor the crustiness of crackers.
On a note. Usually wheat bread is used, but if desired, it can be replaced with rye. For the preparation of homemade crackers, it is recommended to use yesterday’s bread - the crumb becomes denser and easier to cut.
Salmon Recipe
The Caesar salad recipe with shrimp and crackers will sparkle in a new way if you add a little salted salmon to it.
- a bunch of salad;
- 200 grams of boiled shrimp;
- 100 g salted salmon;
- 4 cherry;
- 60 g finely grated parmesan;
- ready crackers;
- 120 g of low-fat sour cream or natural yogurt;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- tsp mustard;
- 2 pickled gherkins.
Cooking basics:
- Rinse lettuce leaves, dry with paper towels and tear by hand in a dish where Caesar will gather.
- Cut the fish into thin slices and spread evenly on the greens.
- Put boiled shrimp on top.
- Halve the cherry and put it on the salad.
Sauce making:
- Cucumbers cut into quarters.
- Put all the components of the sauce in a blender bowl and beat well for several minutes.
Pour the salad with sauce, grate with cheese and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Read also:how to cook caesar salad
How to cook with fried shrimp?
Caesar is usually cooked with boiled shrimps cooked in broth with dill and bay leaf to give a light spice.
No less tasty salad is obtained with fried shrimp:
- The first step is to clean and pickle the shrimp. We remove the carapace, the head, carefully remove the intestine from the tail with a knife.
- Squeeze the garlic cloves into the shrimp meat, pour pepper, squeeze the lemon juice, a little oil and leave it for a while aside so that the shrimps are marinated.
- Add a little oil to the pan and spread the shrimp. Fry for a few minutes until they become appetizing pink. Put on a plate for cooling.
Further shrimp are used for your favorite Caesar salad.
With chinese cabbage
- 4 slices of white bread;
- lean oil;
- 300 grams of freshly frozen shrimp;
- 150 g of dense hard cheese;
- small forks of Beijing cabbage;
- can of pitted olives;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- 100 ml low-fat sour cream;
- Art. l mustard;
- Art. l lemon juice;
- some ground pepper.
Boil shrimp in slightly salted water. Make bread crumbs from bread. Grate the cheese coarsely, rinse the cabbage under water and chop finely.
For dressing, mix sour cream, mustard, pressed garlic, juice, pepper. Mix well with a teaspoon.
Read also:caesar salad dressing
Collect salad, add chopped olives in half, season with mayonnaise.
On a note. Boiled shrimp is more juicy, and fried - a little dry.
Caesar with Chicken and Shrimp
- chicken fillet - 200 gr;
- wheat salad crackers - 50 gr;
- salad bunch;
- half a lemon;
- mustard - 1 tsp;
- eggs of hens. - 2 pieces;
- garlic - a pair of cloves;
- Cherry or ordinary small juicy tomatoes - 3-8 units (depending on size);
- quail eggs - 4-5;
- shrimp - 300 gr;
- olive oil;
- Italian herbs, peppers;
- Parmesan - 50 gr.
Cut the salad into a medium dice. Boil quail eggs until tender and clean.
For dressing, combine oil, pressed garlic, herbs, grated parmesan, pepper, work with a spoon until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Grease the fillet with spices and fry until tender.
Peel and boil shrimps in salted water.
In a salad bowl, combine all the components, with quail eggs, tomato slices put on top, crackers will sprinkle on top of the salad.
Classic salad dressing
Shrimp sauce for Caesar will suit the classic, most common:
- egg;
- tsp Worcester sauce;
- 3 tbsp. l olive oil;
- half a lemon;
- salt, pepper - 1-2 pinch;
- 1 tsp mustard.
The egg should be immersed in boiling water for one minute and then immediately removed, cooled in cold water. Then clean, put in a bowl to mix the sauce. Add freshly squeezed lemon juice and other products there. Add lemon juice in small portions so as not to “acidify” the sauce. Work well with a blender - the mass should thicken and lighten.
On a note. Optionally, add a little French (grainy) mustard.
Calorie content of the finished dish
The general opinion about Caesar salad is a dietary dish. However, this is not entirely true, and its calorific value is quite high. Of course, vegetables have a very low calorie content, and shrimp are not too high in calories. But many people forget about the sauce - they add oil and sour cream to it, sometimes they use mayonnaise.
In order to navigate a little in the nutritional value of a dish, we suggest that you consider an approximate calorie table with a certain amount of products:
| boiled shrimp | 100 gr | 95 kcal |
| boiled chicken egg | 1 unit | 105 kcal |
| lettuce leaves | 200 gr | 24 kcal |
| table mayonnaise | 1 table. l | 125 kcal |
| garlic | clove | 6 kcal |
| cherry tomato | 5 units | 15 kcal |
| Parmesan | 15 gr | 59 kcal |
| wheat bread | 15 gr | 36 kcal |
| 100 g of finished product / 1 serving | 524 | 155/465 |
