The Caesar salad recipe with chicken and crackers is very popular today. Many variations of its execution are known, both with a minimum of ingredients seasoned with simple mayonnaise / sour cream, as well as more complex versions of the preparation. Below we offer to consider some of the most famous varieties of salad.
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Classic Caesar Salad with Chicken and Rusks
Classic Caesar salad with chicken is very easy to prepare. There are not so many components, a little complexity can cause unless the preparation of the sauce.
- a bunch of romaine lettuce;
- Cherry - 100 gr;
- grated parmesan - 50 gr;
- white loaf - 2 slices;
- olive oil - a stack for salad and 100 ml for dressing;
- cloves of garlic - 2;
- chicken fillet - 200 gr;
- eggs - 2;
- ordinary mustard - 2 tsp;
- lemon - ½ of the fruit.
First of all, we prepare all products:
- Cut the garlic cloves into three parts and add a stack of oil. Leave to brew for an hour.
- Squeeze juice out of lemon.
- Rinse the chicken breast thoroughly, fry in oil on all sides until tender and a small appetizing crust appears - in total it will take 20-25 minutes.
- Hard boiled eggs.
- Parmesan grated very finely.
- Wash the vegetables.
- From the bread slices, cut the crust and cut the pulp into small cubes. Fry in oil, which was poured garlic.
- Boiled eggs are divided into protein and yolk. Squeeze the garlic that was previously in the butter over the yolk. Mash everything with a fork and grind well. Combine with mustard, lemon juice, dressing oil - Caesar’s sauce is ready.
- Rinse the vegetables. Cut the fillet into small thin slices, cherry - into quarters. Romen to pick with his hands and immediately put on a dish where there will be a salad.On top of it - chicken, crackers, pour dressing and sprinkle with cheese. Garnish with cherry quarters.
Salad should be served immediately.
On a note. You can make crackers for salad yourself, or buy ready-made ones in the store. At home, they can be made in different ways: slightly dry in the oven, sprinkled with garlic oil or fried in a pan.
A quick recipe in a hurry
A simple recipe for a quick salad will appeal to all lovers of delicious and quick dishes. Salad is suitable as a light breakfast or dinner. Supporters of good nutrition can replace mayonnaise with low-fat sour cream or natural yogurt.
- wheat crackers - 190 gr;
- boiled chicken fillet - 550 gr;
- light mayonnaise (or homemade) - 250 gr;
- salt - a pair of pinch;
- a little ground pepper;
- Peking cabbage or salad - 300 g of fresh leaves.
We cut meat into cubes, leaves - into strips or tear with our hands.
Mix meat, lettuce, mayonnaise in a deep salad bowl, add pepper and salt. Dress with mayonnaise and mix. Sprinkle crackers on top.
On a note. If cabbage leaves are used, it is necessary to separate their fleshy part and use only tender, young leaves.
Smoked chicken
- smoked chicken - 1 half fillet;
- lettuce a small bunch;
- Rye bread;
- light mayonnaise - a couple tsp;
- lemon juice;
- mustard - 11/2 tsp;
- dry crumbs - 30 gr.
Lettuce leaves are separated from the bunch - 3-4 leaves are enough.
Bread is cut in very thin slices - like translucent paper. Three slices are enough. Dry them in a hot oven for several minutes.
Preparing the sauce: combine a drop of lemon juice, mayonnaise and mustard. All rub well with a spoon.
It is interesting:Caesar Salad Sauce
Cut the fillet into slices.
We spread the leaves on the dish, lightly grease the dressing prepared earlier, chicken, the bread greased with the sauce and sprinkle with a little crackers. The dish is ready to eat.
With egg sauce
For any salad variation, we suggest using home-made egg-based Caesar dressing.
For cooking are used:
- a pair of egg yolks;
- spicy mustard - 1 tsp;
- lean refiner. oil - 200 gr;
- salt - a pair of pinch;
- sugar - 1 tsp;
- infused with garlic olives. oil;
- lemon;
- dry basil;
- dry white wine.
Using a blender, combine the yolks with vegetable oil and mustard until the mass becomes homogeneous. With prolonged whipping, a thickening of the mass will become noticeable, as if preparing homemade mayonnaise. Pour sugar and salt, turn on the remaining components. Now you can use a spoon and mix everything thoroughly. Let the sauce brew for a couple of hours. After that you can use it for salad dressing or serve with other dishes.
Caesar with Peking cabbage and chicken
This variation of the salad will differ slightly in appearance - it is served not in classic large pieces of all the ingredients, but in the more familiar form of finely chopped products seasoned with sauce.
- chicken fillet - 300 gr;
- cherry - 6 units;
- leaves of Beijing cabbage - 150 gr;
- Parmesan - 50 gr;
- wheat salad crackers - 50 gr;
- garlic cloves - 2 units;
- salt, pepper, turmeric;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- any hard cheese - 200 gr;
- oil post. - 3 tbsp. l
Fry the fillet in vegetable oil on both sides until tender. Dice, salt and pepper, add turmeric and fry again for about five minutes.
Wash the vegetables, peel the cabbage into leaves and chop very finely, cut the cherry into quarters.
Prepare dressing: mix mayonnaise, grated parmesan and garlic, mix well. If you want to get a thinner sauce, add some more mayonnaise or sour cream.
Mix chicken pieces, cabbage, tomatoes, grated hard cheese with sauce and put in a salad bowl. Sprinkle with crackers.
With beans
- canned beans;
- boiled breast - 350 gr;
- tomatoes - 2 medium;
- wheat slices of bread - 2-3 slices;
- Italian herbs
- garlic cloves - 1-2;
- olive oil.
- mayonnaise;
- ground pepper.
We cut the crumbs into cubes, sprinkle with herbs, sprinkle with oil and send to the oven. We monitor for a uniform coating of golden hue of future crackers, stirring them periodically.
We cut the chicken, cheese and tomatoes into a cube, approximately equal in size to the crackers.
Combine them with beans.
Preparing the sauce: combine mayonnaise with squeezed garlic clove and pepper. Dress the salad. Before serving, sprinkle with breadcrumbs on top.
Classic salad dressing at home
According to legend, Caesar's sauce consisted of only a few products - eggs, butter, Worcester sauce and grated cheese. The modern version has been slightly improved, and its taste is in no way inferior.
- a pair of eggs;
- 200 ml post. oils;
- 1 ½ tsp mustard;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- 2 table. l lemon juice;
- table. l Worcester sauce;
- 20 gr Parmesan cheese;
- a pinch of salt.
Beat eggs, butter and mustard with a hand blender. The mass should significantly lighten and increase quite a bit in volume, slightly thicken - this will be the basis for the future sauce.
We add juice, pressed garlic, sauce, grated cheese, a little salt. Beat well with a blender. You can leave it to infuse for half an hour and then use it for salad dressing.
Fact. It is widely believed that you need to add some anchovies to the sauce to give a light fish note. In fact, the Worcester (Worcester) sauce just gives the fish a touch, so there is no need to add anchovies.
