Caesar salad with chicken and croutons - 10 easy recipes

Among the most varied salads, there is one that has long and firmly entered our life. Many people know and love exactly Caesar salad with chicken and croutons. The traditional salad recipe includes lettuce, cherry tomatoes, loaf, parmesan and chicken. The secret of a salad often lies in its sauce, thanks to which the dish has got its pleasant, light and at the same time nutritious taste.

The classic recipe for Caesar salad with chicken and croutons

Here's a classic way to prepare this simple and amazingly delicious salad. It is prepared with croutons as the main ingredient in this salad. It will also need lettuce, chicken and hard Parmesan cheese. Salad is dressed with specially prepared sauce.

Cooking time - 1 hour.

Servings - 3.

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  First, prepare croutons for the salad. For white bread, cut the crust and cut the bread into cubes.
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  Place the sliced ​​bread on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Drizzle the garlic-flavored olive oil over the slices. To do this, peel the garlic, chop it with a knife, put it in a cup of olive oil and heat it in the microwave for 20 seconds. You can simply pour over the croutons with oil and sprinkle them with a small amount of dry garlic.
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  Place the baking sheet with croutons in the oven at 120 ° C for 20 minutes. Make sure that the croutons are only browned and not burnt, otherwise they will spoil the taste of the salad.
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  Rinse lettuce leaves under running water and remove all liquid with a paper towel.
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  Grate a beautiful salad dressing dish well with a peeled garlic clove.
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  Tear clean and dry lettuce leaves into pieces with your hands and place them on a dish.
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  Rinse the chicken fillet, dry and cut into two halves. Then beat the meat with a hammer and sprinkle with salt and pepper to your liking. Fry the fillet pieces in hot olive oil for 5 minutes on each side.
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  Chill the fried fillet a little, and cut into small longitudinal pieces.
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  Then prepare a special Caesar sauce. To do this, boil an egg in boiling water for one minute, which must first be kept at room temperature for 2-3 hours or heated in warm water for 30 minutes.
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  Pour 150 ml of olive oil into a glass and put an egg in it, which has been boiled for no more than 1 minute. Then whisk with an immersion blender, without tearing it off the bottom of the glass.
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  Pour fresh lemon juice into the mixture and add a tablespoon of Worcester Caesar sauce. You can buy this sauce in the supermarket, because it is he who determines the taste of this salad.
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  Beat all the ingredients in a glass with a blender again.
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  Spread slices of fried fillet on lettuce leaves, pour the prepared sauce over the meat and stir. Spread the croutons on top of this. Grate "Parmesan" on thin shavings and sprinkle over salad. Serve the prepared dish immediately.

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Simple Caesar Recipe with Peking Cabbage and Chicken

In this recipe, you are invited to prepare this spectacular and delicious salad based on succulent Chinese cabbage. Chicken fillet and white bread for it are fried in a dry skillet without adding oil. Salad is dressed with mayonnaise-based sauce.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 200 g.
• Peking cabbage - 150 g.
• Baguette or loaf - 5 slices.
• Grated hard cheese - 4 tbsp. l.
• Cherry tomatoes - 7 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
• Garlic - 4 cloves.
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Soy sauce - 1 tsp
• Salt, pepper and Italian herbs to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces, place in a plate, sprinkle with salt, pepper and soy sauce to your liking. Stir the pieces of meat and leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
2. Then fry them until golden brown in a dry skillet. Be sure to stir the pieces when frying. Transfer the fried meat to a separate plate.
3. Cut the loaf slices into small cubes and fry them also in a dry frying pan until lightly crispy.
4. Rinse the Chinese cabbage, dry with a napkin and chop into large squares. Place the cabbage on a salad platter.
5. Rinse the tomatoes, cut into halves and place on a dish on top of the cabbage.
6. Then transfer the croutons made from the loaf and the fried pieces of chicken fillet to the dish.
7. To prepare the salad dressing sauce, put the specified amount of mayonnaise in a bowl. Add the juice of half a lemon, chopped garlic and salt and black pepper to your taste. Mix everything well.
8. Then pour two tablespoons of water into this sauce, put 2 tablespoons of grated hard cheese and mix again.
9. Add two tablespoons of olive oil and a pinch of Italian herbs to the sauce, stir and taste.
10. Pour the resulting sauce over the salad on a platter and sprinkle with finely grated cheese on top.
11. The salad can be served at the table. Stir it just before eating.

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How to cook Caesar with chicken and mayonnaise at home?

Unlike the classic versions of "Caesar" in this recipe, you are invited to prepare this salad with mayonnaise and chicken. Mayonnaise is best made with your own hands, which will make your salad a culinary masterpiece. And the chicken will give Caesar a special satiety that men will like.

Ingredients:

• Baton - ½ pc.
• Chicken fillet - 1 pc.
• Leafy green salad - 100 g.

For mayonnaise:

• Egg - 1 pc.
• Olive (vegetable) oil - 1 tbsp.
• Mustard - ½ tsp
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the chicken fillet, pat dry with a napkin, sprinkle with salt and pepper to your liking and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Remove the crust from the loaf and cut into 1 x 1 cm cubes. Place the sliced ​​loaf on a baking sheet, add a little salt and drizzle with olive oil. Roast the slices in the oven for 7-10 minutes at 120 ° C until golden brown.
3. Beat the chicken fillet a little and quickly fry in a little oil. Then cool the meat and cut into slices.
4. To make homemade mayonnaise, put the yolk of one egg in a glass (the egg should be at room temperature), add salt and pepper to taste, add mustard, juice of half a lemon and beat with an immersion blender. Then, while continuing to beat the mixture, pour the olive (vegetable) oil in a thin stream. You will have a wonderful homemade mayonnaise.
5. Rinse the green lettuce leaves, dry with a napkin, tear into random pieces with your hands and place them on a salad dish. Pour the prepared mayonnaise over the leaves and stir.
6. Then spread the pieces of fried fillet and croutons (croutons) from the loaf on the leaves. Drizzle with mayonnaise.
7. Sprinkle the dish with shavings of hard cheese and serve.

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Delicious Caesar with chicken and tomatoes like in a restaurant

Such a salad is easy to make with your own hands and in your kitchen, unless you need to tinker a little with the preparation of a special sauce for dressing Caesar. An important point in the recipe is the preparation of juicy and not overdried chicken fillet. This dish is worthy of a festive table.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 2 pcs.
• Lettuce - 150 g.
• Cherry tomatoes - 5 pcs.
• White bread - 2 slices
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.
• Mustard - 1 tbsp l.
• Olive oil - ½ tbsp.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Frying oil.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the salad croutons first. To do this, cut slices of white bread into medium cubes and fry them until golden brown in a little vegetable oil. Flavor the croutons with chopped garlic by adding it to the skillet.
2. Rinse the chicken fillet with cold water, dry and cut into two halves. Sprinkle the meat with salt and pepper to your liking and fry in a preheated skillet over high heat for 5 minutes on each side, being careful not to overcook. Then cool the meat and cut into slices.
3. For dressing in a glass, break one egg (just not cold), add mustard, chopped clove of garlic, juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper to it. Whisk the dressing with an immersion blender, pouring olive oil into it in a thin stream.
4. Rinse lettuce, dry and tear into pieces.
5. Place the salad on a dish. You can shape this salad in portions.
6. Place pieces of fried chicken fillet on lettuce leaves, sprinkle with grated hard cheese and pour over the prepared dressing.
7. Then place the halves of the cherry tomato on the chicken pieces and pour the dressing over the salad again.
8. Sprinkle the salad with croutons and grated cheese and serve immediately.

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Step-by-step recipe for Caesar salad with smoked chicken

In this recipe, you are invited to add a new flavor to this trendy and chic salad - prepare it with smoked chicken. Of course, it is better to use real smoked chicken purchased from the market rather than a vacuum-packed surrogate.

Ingredients:

• Smoked chicken - 250 g.
• Baton - ½ pc.
• Lettuce - 100 g.
• Hard cheese "Parmesan" - 50 g.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Olive oil - 2/3 tbsp
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• Tomatoes - optional.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Remove the crust from the loaf and cut it into small cubes. If you have a fresh loaf, then use your hands to separate the crumb into pieces.
2. Place the pieces of loaf on a baking sheet, drizzle a little with vegetable oil, salt and bake in the oven until golden brown. Then cool the pieces.
3. Divide a piece of smoked chicken into pieces by hand.
4. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
5. Rinse lettuce, pat dry with a napkin and tear each leaf into 4 pieces.
6. Make the dressing sauce from two yolks or from a whole egg soaked in boiling water for 1 minute. First, beat the yolks with mustard and lemon juice, and then, while whisking, gradually add the required amount of olive oil to them. Salt the resulting dressing to your liking, sprinkle with pepper and add chopped chive.
7. Lay the lettuce leaves on a dish, pour over the prepared dressing and stir.
8. Spread slices of smoked chicken and crackers on top of them.
9. Pour the dressing over the salad again and sprinkle with grated cheese. If you wish, you can decorate the salad with tomato wedges.

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Caesar salad with hard Parmesan cheese and croutons

This "Caesar" recipe is the classic, the most beloved and demanded one. An important point in its preparation is the preparation of a juicy chicken breast. We prepare the salad sauce with the addition of mustard, because without the sauce the dish will be bland and tasteless.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 300 g.
• Parmesan cheese - 150 g.
• Cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs.
• Loaf or baguette - 1 pc.
• Lettuce leaves - 150 g.
• Salt, pepper and spices to taste.

For the sauce:

• Garlic - 3-4 cloves.
• Olive oil - ½ tbsp.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Mustard - 1.5 tbsp l.
• Lemon - ½ pc.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the chicken breast from fat and films, rinse and dry with a towel.
2. Sprinkle the meat with spices to your liking, put in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for marinating for 2-3 hours.
3. Then, cut the marinated meat into pieces across the fibers and fry in a skillet without adding oil. You can boil the breast in salted water and then cut into slices and fry them, but also without oil.
4. Cut a loaf or baguette into 1 x 1 cm cubes, drizzle a little with oil mixed with salt and chopped garlic, and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 5 minutes until they become crispy.
5. Grind half of the Parmesan on a fine grater and cut the other half into small thin slices.
6. To prepare the sauce in a blender bowl, put the garlic minced in a garlic, the juice of half a lemon, olive oil, egg, mustard, sugar, pepper, salt and whisk everything into a thick, homogeneous mass.
7. Rinse lettuce leaves in cold water, dry and cut into pieces by hand.
8. Place the lettuce leaves on a large platter and pour over the prepared sauce.
9. Spread fried chicken slices, slices of cheese, halved tomatoes and croutons on lettuce leaves.
10. Pour the sauce over the salad again and sprinkle with the grated Parmesan.

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A simple recipe for Caesar salad from Konstantin Ivlev

According to the recipe of this famous chef, Caesar salad is made from tender quail meat and anchovies (small fatty sea fish) dressing. Since such meat is not always available at the supermarket, in this recipe you are asked to replace it with chicken. Roasting the chicken in one piece to maintain juiciness, rinsing the lettuce leaves in a bowl of water rather than under running water, and using all the salad ingredients well chilled are also important points. In this salad, only lettuce leaves, cheese and crackers are mixed with the sauce, and the rest of the products are laid out around the salad, like a side dish.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet of this recipe - 400 g.
• Green salad (romano or lettuce) - 500 g.
• Parmesan cheese - 50 g.
• Cherry tomatoes - 200 g.
• Olive oil - 2 tablespoons l.
• Fresh thyme - 2 sprigs

For the sauce:

• Garlic - 2-3 cloves.
• Mayonnaise - 320 g.
• Anchovies and capers - 15 g each
• Soy sauce and olive oil - ½ tbsp each l.

For croutons:

• Toast bread - 1 package.
• Garlic - 4 cloves.
• Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the chicken fillet with cold water, dry it with a napkin and sprinkle with salt and pepper to your liking. Then spread the fillet well with olive oil and fry in a preheated skillet, preferably on the grill. For flavor, add sprigs of fresh thyme to the meat.
2. Then we prepare the salad croutons. Cut off the crust of toast bread and cut it into cubes. Place the bread on a baking sheet, sprinkle with olive oil and sprinkle with spices. We bake the croutons in the oven at 100 ° C until golden brown. To get light airy croutons, we take only fresh bread.
3. We wash the tomatoes and cut them into halves.
4. Grind a piece of Parmesan on a fine grater.
5. To prepare the sauce, grind the capers, garlic and anchovies. Add them to mayonnaise, pour soy sauce and olive oil there, put one spoonful of grated cheese and mix well with a whisk.
6. We wash the lettuce leaves by immersing them in a bowl of cold water, and remove excess moisture with a paper towel. With our hands we tear the leaves into large pieces and put them in a separate bowl.
7. Put halves of tomatoes, a spoonful of grated cheese, some crackers to the lettuce leaves, season everything with the prepared sauce and mix.
8. We shift this salad with a slide on a large dish.Around the salad slide, lay out the chicken fillet cut into slices and the rest of the croutons. Sprinkle the rest of the grated Parmesan over the dish and serve.

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Diet Low Calorie Caesar Salad

We bring to your attention a recipe for a festive "Caesar" for those who need dietary nutrition, and for lovers of proper nutrition. In this salad, white bread croutons are replaced with whole grain or bran bread croutons, low-fat cheese is taken, and the sauce is made with yogurt.

Ingredients:

• Peking cabbage - 100 g.
• Chicken fillet - 100 g.
• Whole grain bread - 50 g.
• Hard cheese - 30 g.
• Cherry tomatoes - 4 pcs.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 1 clove.

For the sauce:

• Yogurt - 50 ml.
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp l.
• Mustard and salt - ¼ tsp each
• Boiled yolk - 1 pc.

Cooking process:

1. Boil the chicken fillet in water with salt and spices. Then cool it down and use your hands to separate it into small pieces.
2. Hard boil the eggs and set aside one yolk for the sauce.
3. Chop the cabbage and mix with salt. You can use regular cabbage in this salad.
4. Cut a slice of bread into cubes and dry in a preheated skillet until golden brown.
5. Chop hard cheese into thin slices or chop on a grater.
6. Cut the cherry into slices.
7. To prepare the sauce, put all the ingredients indicated in the recipe in a blender bowl and beat well.
8. Heat a plate or dish for salad a little and rub with a chive for a piquant smell.
9. Put all prepared foods on a dish in layers, first chopped cabbage, then chicken pieces, chopped boiled eggs, croutons and slices of cheese.
10. Pour the prepared sauce over the salad and decorate with tomato slices.

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Layered Caesar salad on the festive table

Caesar salad can be made as flaky. It looks more festive and beautiful on the table. For layers, in addition to the conventional salad, chicken, croutons and Parmesan, you can use shrimp, ham, bell peppers and cucumbers. Imagine boldly.

Ingredients:

• Lettuce - 100 g.
• Parmesan cheese - 50 g.
• Baton - ½ pc.
• Chicken, shrimp, etc. to taste.

For the sauce:

• Olive oil - 2/3 tbsp
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Garlic - 1 clove.
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Sugar - ½ tsp.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut off the crust of the loaf and cut into 1 x 1 cm cubes. Place the cubes on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with spices and bake in the oven until golden brown.
2. Place two chicken yolks in a large glass, add the juice of half a lemon, chopped garlic, mustard, salt, pepper and sugar to them, beat with a blender.
3. Then add to this mixture, pouring in small portions, olive oil and beat everything until the consistency of liquid sour cream.
4. Grind the cheese on a fine grater.
5. Rinse the lettuce leaves in cold water, remove excess moisture with a napkin, tear them into pieces and place in the first layer on a large dish. Pour the prepared sauce over the salad.
6. Spread chicken meat, boiled shrimp or other meat products on them as you wish. Apply a thin layer of sauce to the meat.
7. Put the croutons in the next layer and pour a little sauce over them.
8. Spread the grated Parmesan in the last layer and pour the rest of the sauce over it.
9. Serve the salad immediately, otherwise the croutons may become soft.

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How to make real Caesar salad dressing?

The main secret of the delicious Caesar salad is the preparation of the sauce. You can create a variety of culinary delights based on this classic sauce recipe. To make it properly, you need special ingredients, necessarily Worcestershire sauce. Its composition is multicomponent, so it is almost impossible to cook it at home, it is better to purchase it in a supermarket.

Ingredients:

• Olive oil - 100 ml.
• Worcester sauce - 2 tsp.
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Fillet anchovies - 4 pcs.
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Gently pierce the blunt side of each egg with a needle and dip them in boiling water. Then turn off the heat under the saucepan and hold the eggs for another 1 minute, and then transfer to cold water. This sauce requires the protein to thicken just a little.
2. Transfer the eggs to a separate bowl.
3. Peel the garlic, chop in a garlic and add to the eggs.
4. Add the juice of half a lemon, mustard and finely chopped anchovy fillets to this mixture.
5. Use a hand blender to whisk the whole thing well.
6. Then, without stopping whisking, pour olive oil into the sauce in a thin stream.
7. At the end of the beating, add the Worcester sauce, a little salt and pepper to the beaten mass. You can enhance the scent with a pinch of dried herbs.
8. Season "Caesar" with the prepared sauce before serving.

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