How do I make a good cesar salad?

Question

What should I put in it? Anyone have any special recipies? Any good cesar dressings to reccomend?

Answer 1

BEST CAESAR SALAD EVER!

1 large fresh head romaine
4-5 tsp. lemon juice or juice of 1-2 lemons
1 tsp. dry mustard
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
sprinkle of lemon pepper
1/4 c. red wine vinegar
1 beaten egg
generous sprinkle of Parmesan cheese
handful of bacon bits
couple handfuls of croutons
mix with creamy Caesar dressing

CAESAR SALAD DRESSING

1 cup mayonnaise
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp Worcestershire
1 clove of garlic (minced)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 c Parmesean cheese
1 tbsp of milk or half and half

Mix all ingredients together and shake or whisk until well blended.

PARMESAN CAESAR DRESSING WITH EQUAL:

4 tbsp. tarragon vinegar
6 tbsp. safflower oil
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp. seasoned salt
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 packet of Equal
1 egg

Place all ingredients in blender. Blend for 30 seconds. Refrigerate. Dressing is best when used within 1 week

Answer 2

I've owned a steak house this is how we made it from scratch in front of customers:
1-2 large heads of Romaine lettuce, washed, dried and cut into bite size pieces. Set aside.
Add 3-4 garlic cloves in a round wooded bowl or anything round bottom. Mash them with a fork. Add 2 anchovie fillets, broken apart with fork. Crushed black pepper to taste. Then add 1 egg yolk and mix that together with your fork. (You should rotate your bowl in circles as you do this, throughout whole process.)
Mix altogether.
Now depending how many people your serving that's how much oil you will use. More people...more oil & one more egg yolk, more garlic etc....
So lets say 4 people.
Roughly 1 - 1 1/2 cups of vegetable oil. Measure in a measuring cup.
This is the most important part!!!! Drizzle the oil very very very slowly into the egg mixture while at the same time you keep mixing the egg mixture. Your arm might feel like it will fall off but under no circumstance stop mixing the egg mixture!!! Because it will curdle. When the oil is added you should have a very thick paste. Now here's the fun part.
Add 1 lemon,(the texture of the paste will change and become lighter in colour) and for heavens sake don't use imitation lemon juice. The juice of 1 lemon!!!
1 teaspoon of mustard, bacon bits, 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese,Tabasco, worschestershire. Presto!!! you'll be the talk of the town honey!
BTW> if the mixture curdles it won't matter because it will get mixed up with the lemon juice later.
When your ready to enjoy dinner then toss the dressing in the romaine...Add croutons at the end!
Enjoy!

Answer 3

Ingredients:

Romain lettuce
croutons
parmesan cheese

Dressing:

1 cup olive or other salad oil
1 clove garlic(crushed)
1 egg
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
2 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp vinegar(regular or flavored)

Gently wash wash a few leaves of lettuce in a bowl of cold water. Dry the lettuce in a clean dishtowel or salad spinner.


Gently break the leaves into slightly larger than bite-size pieces and put into bowl.

In a mixing bowl add the dressing ingredients and mix with a wisk or electric mixer.

Add parmesan cheese and croutons to the lettuce and gently toss. Add dressing just before serving.

Add dressing sparingly, gently tossing salad until the leaves are barely coated.










There are lots of add-ons you can add to ceasar salad recipes to make them into full meals.

Sliced/cubed chicken or steak is quite popular.

Seafood is a very popular add-on. Shrimp, prawns, crab, lobster and scallops are the favorite shellfish.

Salmon and halibut are good fish add-ons. The best thing about seafood is that one will usually complement the other, so you can add as many different ones as you like.

Whatever seafood or seafood combo you use, make sure it's been handled properly(fresh-frozen,properly refrigerated etc.)


Any kind of smoked seafood really adds flavour. Smoked salmon is the most popular and easiest to find. Canned smoked shellfish such as oysters, mussels, and scallops are an alternative but these are very rich, strong tasting, and definately an aquired taste.

All these ingredients can be added hot or cold, usually on top of the salad right after the dressing is added.

Answer 4

5 lb romaine leaves, 12 oz white bread-trim crust-cut bread into small cube 3/4",2-4 oz olive oil saute until golden brown. These are croutons.
25 Anchovy fillets-mash together to make a paste, 2 tsp garlic, 4 eggs beaten, 6 oz lemon juice,{beat eggs and lemon juice until smooth, 2 1/2 cups of olive oil, beating constantly with a wire whip, slowly add the olive oil. 2 oz parmesan cheese grated.

immediately before service pour the dressing over the greens and sprinkle the cheese. toss untill leaves are coated with the dressing, add crouton and toss again

This is not the recipe used in fast food resturant

Answer 5

I like to mix both romaine hearts and iceberg lettuce together for both the texture and the dark green/ light grenn color contrast. I mix 1/2 cup of parmesean cheese as well as 1/2 inch mozzerella cubes in my salad. Paul Newman has a great light fat Cesar salad dressing and I season it with salt and pepper. Its really good!

Answer 6

I rub the bowl with a garlic clove. Use very crisp romaine and shredded parmasean cheese. My favorite dressing that really makes the salad is Girard's. Its in a triangular shaped bottle with a gold seal. You can get it almost any grocery store. Its really good

Answer 7

most dressings are good.
If you want to make your own, I personally prefer recipies with anchovies, even if its not the traditional recipe.

Use good amounts of black pepper and when possible use freshly grated parmesan...it just tastes so much better.

Here are some good toppings:
1) bacon bits and/or sliced boiled eggs
2) grilled chicken
3) grilled salmon
4) anchovies

Answer 8

if you aren't allergic to chicken put hot or cold chicken in it, crutons, iceberg lettuce and what mexican restaurants do is they put littl strips of crispy tortillas in there, too. you can also put little fruits or veggies in there if you want.