Caesar salad with chicken dietary recipe

Caesar salad dressing with Worcestershire sauce

Ingredients

• Chicken egg 2 pieces
• Lemon ½ piece
• Olive oil 100 ml
• Grated Parmesan cheese 2 tablespoons
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper to taste
• French mustard 20 g

Preparation

• 1. Wash the eggs, bring the water to a boil, immediately turn off the heat, and pierce the blunt part of each of the two eggs with a needle. The eggs should sit in NON-BOILING (or at least not very boiling) water for exactly 1 minute (this is if you cook according to the original source, I kept it for three minutes, basing my decision on my assumption - so that the layer of boiled protein would be thicker).
• 2. Cut our lemon in half and carefully squeeze the juice from half the lemon into a separate bowl. To get more juice, you can add a little water to the squeezed lemon and squeeze the lemon into the sauce again. Please note that you don’t need to overdo it with lemon juice. One of my sauces turned out very sour, and believe me, this is not very tasty!
• 3. Prepare the blender (whisk), use a knife to split the eggs in half, pour the liquid part of the egg into a blender glass, and scoop out the white layer from the egg shells with a spoon. Salt and beat the eggs thoroughly, pour in lemon juice, and beat thoroughly again.
• 4. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of Parmesan into the blender glass with the sauce and whisk thoroughly again.
• 5. Add either a few drops of Worcestershire sauce (if you managed to find it), or a little sweet sandwich mustard (this is not Russian thermonuclear mustard, but one that you can practically eat with a spoon, it is also sometimes called “Butterbrodnaya”, “French” but without whole mustards). grains). Add pepper to taste.
• 6. Beating the contents of the glass with a blender (whisk), pour 100 grams of olive oil into the glass in a thin stream and, without stopping whisking, bring everything to a homogeneous whipped mass.

Store the sauce in the refrigerator and whisk again before using. The taste of the sauce is preserved for 1-2 days, but the consistency clearly becomes worse. If the sauce is prepared and whipped correctly, its volume will increase 1.5 times, and the consistency will be thinner than 10% sour cream. I found out for certain that the said twist with piercing the egg with a needle took place in the classic version of the salad by its creator, Caesar Cardini. I assume that the purpose of this stage is to obtain a thin layer of boiled protein, which, when ground, improves the consistency of the sauce.

Secrets of dietary options for the legendary salad

Italian-American Caesar Cardini came up with his famous salad from ingredients that were on hand.
Unexpectedly, the dish quickly gained popularity not only in the United States, but throughout the world.

Since 1924, many variations of it have appeared.

You can find recipes with chicken breast and turkey meat, beef and venison, ham and bacon.

Many chefs replace meat with seafood (crab meat, shrimp, tuna, sea or river fish fillet) in their original versions of this dish.

For dietary recipes, you can also use Chinese cabbage or white cabbage instead of lettuce (traditionally romaine lettuce).

The meat is used boiled, baked or fried in a dry frying pan with a non-stick coating.

Pieces of whole grain, rye or bran bread are dried in the oven or in a frying pan without adding vegetable oil. They will replace the croutons used in traditional recipes.

There is also a Caesar dressing - sauce made from sour cream, yogurt, or even any mayonnaise with additives. Choose the recipe you like for the New Year's table and start cooking. (photos and step-by-step cooking algorithm will help us!)

Chicken recipe

This version with chicken and regular cabbage is most similar in taste to the classic one.

It is better to take young cabbage - its leaves are more tender.

Ingredients:

• cabbage - 100 g
• fillet without skin and bones - 100 g
• whole grain bread - 50 g
• Parmesan cheese - 30 g
• tomatoes (cherry) - 3-4 pcs.
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• garlic - 1 small clove.

for the sauce:

• yogurt - 50 ml
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp.
• salt - 1/4 tsp.
• mustard - 1/4 tsp.
• boiled yolk - 1 pc.

Preparation:

1. Boil the fillet (peeled from skin and fat) in salted water with the addition of spices. Cut the cooled meat into cubes or separate into small pieces.
2. Let's boil the eggs. Two are enough for us - we’ll take 1 yolk for dressing, and the rest for the salad.
3. Coarsely chop the cabbage and, adding a little salt, knead it with your hands.
4. Dry the bread, cut into cubes, in a hot frying pan until golden brown.
5. Cut the cheese very thinly into small petals or grate it. Cut the tomatoes into halves or quarters.
6. In a blender, beat all the ingredients for the sauce.
7. Let's warm up a flat plate a little and run a cut clove of garlic over the entire inner surface - we don't need the taste and pungency of garlic, but the smell is simply necessary for piquancy.
8. Place all the ingredients beautifully on the dish in layers: cabbage, meat, eggs, crackers, grated cheese. Pour in the sauce and garnish with cherry tomatoes.
9. Bon appetit!

Cooking with shrimp

Salad with shrimp and Chinese cabbage is a different taste.

We’ll make a dietary sauce for it using olive oil.

Whole grain crispbread is perfect for this.

We need:

• Chinese cabbage - 200 g
• shrimp – 300 g
• whole grain bread - 1-2 slices
• cheese - 50 g
• tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.
• small fresh cucumber - 1 pc.

for the sauce:

• boiled egg yolk - 1 pc.
• olive oil - 30 g
• lemon juice - 1 tsp.
• Dijon mustard - 1 tsp.
• anchovies - 2 small fish.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Chop the cabbage coarsely or tear it with your hands. Cut the tomatoes into slices into 4-8 pieces (depending on the size!). Chop the cucumber into cubes.
2. Boil shrimp in boiling salted water for 1-2 minutes. Cool and clean them.
3. Grind the cheese on a grater.
4. Break the bread into small pieces.
5. In a blender, mix all the ingredients for the sauce - the mass should be thick and homogeneous.
6. Place cabbage, vegetables and shrimp in a salad bowl. Sprinkle with cheese and add pieces of bread. Pour over the sauce.
7. Serve to the table.

Homemade diet Caesar roll

I really like the option of serving salad “packed” in thin Armenian lavash; this deliciousness is called Caesar roll. And the ingredients for it and the dressing are the same: vegetables, chicken, Parmesan cheese, a mixture of yogurt and mustard. But all this, wrapped in pita bread, turns into not just a snack, but a full-fledged lunch and even sometimes dinner - there is a lot of protein in the composition. Here is just a video with the preparation of the Caesar fitness roll and indicating its kbju:

The popular Caesar salad will not have such an attractive taste if it is made without sauce. By replacing at least one component in the dressing, you can radically change the taste of the entire dish. Learn about the variety of options for making Caesar dressing using the recipes and photos provided.

Caesar dressing with Tabasco

Ingredients

• Garlic 1 clove
• Mustard 1 teaspoon
• Egg yolk 1 piece
• Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
• Olive oil 45 ml
• Wine vinegar 1 teaspoon
• Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon
• Tabasco sauce to taste
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper to taste

Preparation

• 1. Chop the garlic.
• 2. Add salt to the garlic and stir.
• 3. Take the dishes, add 1 teaspoon of mustard.
• 4. Next, add 1 raw yolk.
• 5. Add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Mix.
• 6. Add chopped garlic and 1 teaspoon of wine vinegar. Mix.
• 7. Pour in 40–50 ml of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce (optional).
• 8. Add 3-4 drops of Tabasco (no need to add), ground black pepper. Mix.

Best Caesar Salad Dressing Recipes

Irina Pavlina

Food section editor

A delicious Caesar sauce is half the success of a salad. Its classic composition includes: olive oil, garlic, black pepper, wine vinegar, lemon or lime juice, hard-boiled egg, Worcestershire sauce and salt.

Crushed garlic is intensively beaten in olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice and ground egg are added, and finally Worcestershire sauce and salt are added. These days, another must-have ingredient for chicken Caesar salad dressing is anchovies.

Caesar dressing with red pepper

Ingredients

• Mayonnaise 3 tablespoons
• Dijon mustard with horseradish 1 tablespoon
• Garlic 3 cloves
• Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
• Ground red pepper pinch

Preparation

1. Mix mayonnaise with mustard, then squeeze the garlic out of the garlic press and add a tablespoon of lemon juice, whisk everything well. Add ground red pepper and stir again.

How to replace Caesar dressing

You can buy ready-made Caesar dressing or season the salad with mayonnaise, adding garlic, vinegar or freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Let us remind you that we previously told you how to cook Caesar with shrimp. Today.Lifestyle also shared a Caesar recipe with lightly salted salmon.

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The best dressing for classic Caesar with anchovies, mayonnaise and soy sauce

List of required products:

• mayonnaise 200 ml;
• soy sauce – 20-25 ml;
• garlic – 1 small clove;
• grated parmesan - 25-35 g;
• anchovy fillet - 2-3 pcs.

How to cook:

1. Add garlic crushed with a knife to mayonnaise (you can prepare it yourself or buy store-bought).
2. Pour soy sauce there and put 2-3 anchovy fillets.
3. Finely grate the Parmesan and add to the rest of the ingredients. All that remains is to blend until smooth using a blender and let the dressing sit a little in the refrigerator.

Diet Caesar with quail eggs

Compound:

• Iceberg salad – 0.2 kg;
• oatmeal bread – 50 g;
• quail egg – 5–6 pcs.;
• cherry tomatoes – 0.2 kg;
• soy sauce – 10 ml;
• unsweetened yogurt – 100 ml;
• balsamic vinegar – 10 ml;
• hard cheese – 50 g.

Cooking method:

• Coarsely chop the lettuce leaves and place on a plate.
• Peel the hard-boiled eggs, cut them in half, and place on the salad.
• Arrange the tomato halves.
• Break the bread with your hands and place it randomly on top.
• Mix balsamic vinegar, soy sauce and yogurt. Pour the resulting sauce over the salad.
• Sprinkle with grated cheese.

This Caesar salad recipe can be prepared in a hurry. Quail eggs can be replaced with chicken eggs, cherry tomatoes - with regular ones. Then cut them into large cubes.

Caesar salad or roll sauce like McDonald's

Sauce composition:

• garlic – 1-2 cloves (to taste);
• olive oil – 5 tbsp. l.;
• egg yolks – 3 pcs.;
• French mustard – 1.5-2 tsp;
• lemon juice – 2 tsp;
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

1. Pass the garlic through a press or grate it on a fine-hole grater.
2. Place the yolks in a tall blender glass, add chopped garlic cloves, lemon juice (freshly squeezed juice), mustard, a little salt and pepper.
3. Punch with a blender. Without stopping whipping, gradually add oil.
4. The resulting sauce will have medium thickness. Before adding to the salad, let the dressing sit in the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours.

Other Chicken Caesar Recipes

Caesar salad with smoked chicken

Usually for this salad, chicken meat is boiled or fried in a pan. You can get an original recipe if you add smoked breast. This salad saves cooking time and has a delicate smoky flavor.

Ingredients:

• smoked chicken - 250 g;
• loaf - half;
• parmesan cheese - 50 g;
• leaf lettuce - 100 g;

For refueling:

• lemon – 1/2 pcs.;
• mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.;
• garlic – 3 cloves;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• Italian herbs – 1 pinch;
• olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
• water – 2 tbsp. l.
• cherry tomatoes – 5-6 pieces.

The preparation is like this.

1. Cut the smoked chicken into small pieces.
2. Peel and press the garlic cloves.
3. Cut white bread into small cubes.
4. Add vegetable oil to a heated frying pan and lightly fry the garlic. Then add croutons and fry until golden brown.
5. Prepare the sauce: squeeze lemon juice into a bowl, add olive oil, spices and water. Mix everything thoroughly.
6. Place lettuce leaves on a plate, place chicken strips on top, sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
7. Pour over the sauce and add the croutons. Serve immediately.

Caesar salad with beans

People who for some reason do not eat meat can try making Caesar with beans. This salad is a great change from the classic version.

Ingredients:

• boiled beans – 200 g;
• lettuce leaves - 6-7 pcs.;
• red onions - 50 g;
• tomatoes – 5-7 pcs.;
• yoghurt mayonnaise - 50 ml;
• baguette - 2-3 pieces;
• garlic – 1 clove;
• grated cheese - 50 g.

Cooking involves a number of steps.

1. Cut the bread into cubes, fry in a frying pan, add crushed garlic.
2. Mix well and let stand.
3. Wash the lettuce leaves and cut them.
4. Place in a mixing container.
5. Wash the tomatoes, chop finely.
6. Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
7. Add beans.
8. Pour yogurt mayonnaise and mix ingredients.
9. Place on a serving plate.
10. Sprinkle with grated cheese and add croutons.

Caesar salad with Chinese cabbage

Ingredients:

• Chinese cabbage – 150 g;
• white bread – 5 pieces;
• cherry tomatoes – 7 pcs.;
• chicken fillet – 200 g;
• soy sauce or Teriyaki sauce – 1 tsp;
• parmesan – 70 g;

For the sauce:

• lemon – 1/2 pcs.;
• mayonnaise – 3 tbsp. l.;
• garlic – 3 cloves;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• hard cheese, grated on a fine grater - 2 tbsp. l.;
• mustard – 2 tbsp.
• olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.

The preparation is like this.

1. Wash the chicken breast and cut into pieces. Fry in a frying pan until fully cooked.
2. Cut the bread into small pieces.
3. Cut the garlic clove into slices and fry in oil. Add pieces of bread to the garlic and brown on all sides.
4. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise and mustard.
5. Wash the tomatoes, cut into halves.
6. Separate the Chinese cabbage leaves, wash and dry. Cut the upper part of the leaves into large pieces or tear them by hand.
7. Place the cabbage pieces in a bowl, add half the sauce to it, and stir.
8. Place the cabbage on a platter, add pieces of chicken and tomatoes on top, and place croutons on them.
9. Pour the remaining sauce over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese.

Caesar salad with tomatoes and cheese

The traditional version uses small cherry tomatoes, but you can add regular tomatoes after cutting them into quarters.

Ingredients:

• loaf – 200 g;
• olive oil – 5 tbsp;
• garlic – 1 clove;
• salad - 1 bunch;
• cheese – 50 g;
• chicken meat - 300 g;
• cherry – 6-8 pcs.

For the Caesar dressing:

• egg – 1 pc.;
• mustard – 1 tsp;
• lemon juice – 2 tsp;
• olive oil – 100 ml;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

The preparation is as follows.

1. Cut the bread into cubes and fry in a frying pan with garlic.
2. Boil the chicken, cut into pieces.
3. Wash the lettuce leaves and cut them.
4. Wash the tomatoes, chop finely.
5. Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
6. For the sauce: separate the yolk, add mustard, lemon juice, olive oil, spices. Mix everything well.
7. Place lettuce leaves and chicken fillet in a serving plate
8. Sprinkle with grated cheese, add croutons and pour over the sauce.

Caesar salad with shrimp

Ingredients:

• shrimp – 300 g;
• fresh lettuce leaves - a bunch;
• quail eggs - 2 pieces;
• black pepper - to taste;
• cherry tomatoes – 5-6 pcs.
• hard cheese – 100 g;
• Caesar sauce;

The preparation is as follows.

1. Boil shrimp in boiled water, add salt and spices. Cook for 15 minutes.
2. Wash the lettuce and chop coarsely.
3. Boil the eggs, peel and cut into halves.
4. Place lettuce leaves, shrimp, cherry tomatoes on a plate. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Serve along with the prepared sauce.

Caesar salad with bacon and eggs

• egg - 4 pcs.;
• bacon - 6 strips;
• white bread - 2 pieces;
• mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. l.;
• olive oil - 4 tbsp. l.;
• juice of half a lemon
• green salad - 1 head;
• cheese - 50 g.

The preparation is like this.

1. Fry the bacon on each side for 3-4 minutes.
2. Boil the eggs.
3. Slice the bread and bake in the oven.
4. Prepare the sauce: whisk mayonnaise, olive oil, lemon juice, spices.
5. Place lettuce leaves in a salad bowl.
6. Place bacon, croutons and eggs on top of the salad.
7. Sprinkle with grated cheese and pour over dressing.

Diet Caesar with chicken breast

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet – 300 g;
• Chinese cabbage - half a head;
• cherry tomatoes – 7-8 pcs.;
• bread – 3-4 slices;
• hard cheese – 50 g;
• unsweetened yogurt – 100 ml;
• lemon – 1 pc.;
• table mustard – 2-3 ml;
• chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
• salt, Italian herbs - to taste.

The cooking method is as follows.

1. Rinse the chicken fillet thoroughly, dry it, rub with salt and spices.
2. Wrap in foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
3. Prepare the croutons: cut the bread and dry it in the oven.
4. Separate the top leaves from the cabbage, rinse under cold water and cut into medium pieces.
5. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
6. Mash the yolks of boiled eggs with a fork, add lemon juice and yogurt, mix everything.
7. Place the leaves on a plate and lightly drizzle with the prepared dressing.
8. Remove chicken meat from foil and cut into medium-sized slices. Place on top of the leaves.
9. Cut the tomatoes into quarters and add to the salad.
10. Place croutons and sprinkle with cheese.
11. Pour over the sauce and serve.

It turns out to be a completely dietary version of Caesar salad.

Caesar salad dressing based on boiled yolks with mustard, honey and lemon

What components does it consist of:

• selected eggs - 3 pcs.;
• ready-made Russian mustard – 1 tsp;
• natural honey, bee honey – 0.3 tsp;
• unrefined olive oil – 100 ml;
• lemon – 0.5 pcs. medium size;
• pepper, salt - a pinch.

Step-by-step cooking algorithm:

1. Hard-boil the eggs (7-9 minutes in boiling water), cool, remove the yolks.
2. Place the yolks in a small bowl, add mustard, and grind until smooth with a fork.
3. Crush the garlic into a paste and add to the mustard-yolk mixture. Put salt, a little pepper, honey there, and pour in the juice. Grind until smooth.
4. While continuing to mash the sauce, add oil in small portions. The result should be a moderately thick, smooth emulsion.

Classic Caesar recipe with chicken

The classic salad, invented many years ago by Cesare Cardini, will always be a priority, despite the variety of recipes.

Step-by-step recipe for 4 servings:

• iceberg salad – 150 g;
• white bread – 5 pieces;
• chicken fillet – 200 g;
• Parmesan cheese – 50 g.

For the sauce:

• sweet mustard - 1 tsp;
• olive oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• lemon juice - ½ lemon;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• salt - a pinch;

Preparation includes the following steps.

1. Cut the loaf into small squares. Drizzle with oil, add a little salt and bake in the oven.
2. Boil the chicken fillet. Cut into small strips.
3. Grate the Parmesan cheese.
4. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them and tear them into 2-4 pieces with your hands.
5. The sauce can be made from whole eggs or just the yolks. In the first case, put them in boiling water for 1 minute.
6. In the second, separate the yolks from the whites.
7. Peel the garlic cloves and grate them on a fine grater. Add mustard, lemon juice and yolks. Add olive oil and beat everything.
8. Pour ½ of the sauce over the lettuce leaves and toss gently.
9. Place the chicken pieces and croutons on top and pour the remaining sauce on top. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
10. Stir lightly and serve.