Caesar salad has a very rich history and is the basis for the preparation of other varieties of this dish. There are a lot of variations of this salad. In a classic salad, some add chicken, tomatoes, ham, seafood, etc., but, nevertheless, the main ingredients remain unchanged.
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You will need
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- Romano lettuce leaves - 250 g;
- Parmenzan cheese - 60 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- To make croutons:
- baguette or white bread (preferably dried) - 150 g;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- salt.
- To make the sauce:
- lemon - ½ pcs.
- Worcester sauce - 1 tsp;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
- black pepper (ground).
Instruction manual
1
Fresh eggs at room temperature, dip in cool salted boiling water for about 1 minute, then let cool, pour them cold water. If you stored the eggs in the refrigerator, carefully pierce them from the blunt end before cooking.
2
Thoroughly rinse the Romano salad, pat it dry with a paper towel and put it in the refrigerator.
3
Cook the croutons. Turn on the oven in advance. It is necessary that she has time to warm up to 180-200 degrees. In the meantime, go in for bread. Cut the crust from it and cut it into small cubes about 1x1 centimeter in size. Put on a baking sheet and dry in a preheated oven until a golden hue appears for about 8 minutes. Then crush the garlic, crush it with salt, mix with olive oil and heat in a pan over low heat. After that, pour croutons into a heated pan, mix and hold on fire for about 2 minutes.
4
While making croutons, grate the Parmesan cheese on a fine grater.
5
Rub a salad bowl with a clove of garlic. Tear the leaves of chilled lettuce with your hands into small pieces and put in a cup. After that, sprinkle them with cold olive oil and actively, but at the same time, carefully move to make the salad airy.
6
Salt, pepper, add lemon juice, Worcester sauce and mix.
7
Next, add the eggs to the salad and mix in such a way that they cover all the salad leaves.
8
At the end, sprinkle the dish with grated Parmesan and croutons.
Useful advice
Be sure to tear lettuce leaves with your hands, and do not cut with a knife.
Mix all the ingredients immediately before serving the salad.
Store the washed lettuce leaves in the refrigerator until mixing. Thanks to this, they will be more crispy.
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