The main "chip" of the discussed snacks is the sauce. Caesar salad dressing gives the mixture of vegetables, cheese and chicken piquancy, makes the taste bright and original. Cook it yourself in your kitchen using the recipes published below.

Classic Caesar Salad Dressing

Having decided to prepare a dressing according to the selected recipe, you will need to purchase a special Worcester sauce. It is he who gives the appetizer the very unique taste that cannot be confused with anything. Ingredients: 90 ml of olive oil (required - first extraction), 2 cloves of garlic, half a lemon, salt, 2 mal. spoons "Worcester", 2 chicken eggs.

  1. Eggs are pierced with a thin needle (from the blunt side) and immersed in boiling water. After a few seconds, the white part thickens and can be removed from the liquid. Products are peeled and mashed with a fork. The main thing is not to overexpose them in boiling water.
  2. A special sauce, crushed garlic, oil and lemon juice is added to the eggs.
  3. After thorough mixing, it remains only to taste to fill up the dressing.

If desired, you can also pepper the resulting sauce or add a mixture of your favorite seasonings to it.

With mustard

The mustard dressing is even more piquant. Ingredients: 3 large spoons of finely grated Parmesan, half a lemon, 3 yolks of chicken eggs, 140 ml of quality olive oil, 1.5 large spoons of Dijon mustard, garlic to taste.

  1. Raw egg yolks are whisked with freshly squeezed lemon juice, parmesan and mustard.
  2. Oil is poured into the resulting mass.
  3. The taste of the dressing is salted. Crushed garlic is added to it.

If garlic crackers are served for the appetizer, then you can refuse to use spicy additives in the dressing.

Cheese Sauce Recipe

This sauce will not add extra cheese to the snack. Ingredients: 60 g of fatty butter, Roquefort cheese and any hard, spicy, 3 small. tablespoons of brandy.

  1. The oil needs to be thoroughly softened.
  2. Two types of cheese are rubbed on a grater with the smallest divisions, after which they are poured with cognac.
  3. Soaked oil is added to the mass.
  4. All components are whipped until the amount of dressing is approximately doubled.

Such a sauce is deliciously spread on fresh bread or toasts.

Based on mayonnaise with anchovies

If you want to greatly simplify your task when preparing the sauce for the salad in question, you should take ordinary mayonnaise as its basis. Ingredients: small. spoon of mustard, salt, 3 anchovies, 180 ml of olive oil, 3 mal. tablespoons of mayonnaise, 4 garlic cloves, 60 ml of freshly squeezed lemon juice, a pinch of ground black pepper.

  1. Fish fillet, garlic, mayonnaise and mustard go straight to the bowl of a blender or food processor. In the process of grinding, the mass must be salt to taste, pepper and add lemon juice. A uniform paste should be in the container.
  2. It remains to pour olive oil in a thin stream and mix it well again.

Before use, the sauce is cooled for about half an hour.

Sour cream dressing

Sour cream-based sauce is less caloric than other options. Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic, 190 g sour cream of medium fat content, half a large spoonful of mustard, salt.

  1. Mustard mixed with crushed garlic.
  2. Sharp ingredients are added to sour cream.
  3. The sauce is well beaten by a blender and salted to taste.

A salad with this dressing is served immediately. If its taste turned neutral, dry Provence herbs will help to fix this.

Anchovy-free sauce

If Caesar is cooked not with chicken, but with fish (for example, salmon or trout), then it is worth serving a sauce prepared without anchovies. Ready-made options for dressings for snacks without this, ingredients are rarely found on sale. Therefore, it is worth preparing the Caesar salad sauce at home on your own. Ingredients: 120 g of soft cheese (feta is best), 140 ml of quality olive oil, a large spoon of dry mustard, chicken yolk, 2 large spoons of finely chopped pickled gherkins, salt, half a fresh lemon, granulated garlic.

  1. Ground gherkins are mixed with the selected soft cheese. You can use a special blender nozzle for this.
  2. Mustard, granulated garlic, olive oil, salt, juice squeezed from half a lemon, egg yolk are mixed in a separate cup until smooth.
  3. It remains to add chopped cucumbers and mix thoroughly the finished dressing.

Gherkins can be replaced with a more expensive elite product - capers. These unripened canned olives, hand-picked, have a distinctive sour-salty taste. They are also crushed as much as possible before being added to the sauce with a sharp knife or a special blender nozzle.

Egg-free recipe

If the hostess is afraid to add raw chicken eggs to the dressing, then it is quite possible to do without them. There is a separate interesting recipe for this. Ingredients: 85 ml of high-quality olive oil, a large spoonful of Worcester sauce, the same amount of mustard (dry) in powder and liquid bee honey, a clove of garlic, salt, 2 large tablespoons of lemon juice.

  1. Garlic slices are passed through a press, and rubbed with salt.
  2. Using a blender, honey, mustard and oil are mixed well. Sauce and freshly squeezed lemon juice pour into the resulting mass.
  3. It remains to add a mixture of garlic and salt, and also beat the dressing until smooth.

The unusual taste of the sauce will be combined with any version of Caesar.

Chicken Caesar Sauce

An appetizer with chicken also necessarily includes white crackers, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and, of course, a special dressing.It turns out sharp and goes well with all of these components. Products: half a glass of slightly aromatic olive oil, 2 pcs. eggs, half a lemon, a large clove of garlic, a couple drops of hot sauce (ideally “Tabasco”).

  1. Hard boiled eggs. It usually takes 8-9 minutes. When the products have cooled, the yolks are separated from the proteins, which must be thoroughly kneaded with a fork.
  2. Spicy sauce and mashed garlic are added to the resulting mass. Freshly squeezed lemon juice and olive oil are poured here.
  3. After the next mixing, the appetizer is completely ready.

With extreme caution should be added to the Tabasco sauce. It must be remembered that it is very burning.

Shrimp salad dressing

Large meaty seafood is ideal for this appetizer option. Of course, the dressing for Caesar according to this recipe should also be special. Products: 2 large eggs, 2 small. tablespoons of soy sauce without additives and the same amount of Dijon mustard, 1 cup olive oil, half a lemon.

  1. Eggs are dropped into boiling water and boiled for just one minute. Next, a liquid core (yolk) is extracted from them, which is mixed with soy sauce and mustard.
  2. Freshly squeezed lemon juice and olive oil are poured into the resulting mass.

To taste, you can slightly add salt to the finished dressing for a snack.

 

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