It is unlikely the creator of the well-known Caesar salad assumed that the snack made for them quick from the remains of products sometime will become well-known for the whole world. The legendary dish at many is associated with a name of the Roman dictator Guy Julius Caesar, but the former consul has no relation to it.
And here Caesar?
Tasty and nourishing Caesar salad is included into the obligatory menu of a set of restaurants in different countries today. Usually at its structure there are a lettuce (Roman salad, a romaine), cheese and toasts. Other ingredients vary: chicken, a turkey, anchovies, a tuna, eggs, tomatoes, shrimps and other as far as there is enough imagination of cooks.
The name of salad causes association with the most famous Caesar in many – the ancient Roman politician who, according to legends, was famous for ability to do many things at the same time. However it is improbable that the consul also cut salads for himself and guests though it is known that he liked to eat, especially I respected a pork neck with apples.
It is considered that salad a baking plate the name "Caesar" was thought up by the American of the Italian origin Cesare (Caesar) Cardini. At the same time many modern recipes of a dish are far from an initial idea of the talented cook and the restaurateur.
The Roman dictator has no relation to salad namesake
Prohibition and Caesar Kardini's find
Kardini had a Caesar's Place restaurant in the Mexican territory in Takhuyena near San Diego that allowed American visitors to order alcohol and to bypass the Prohibition of the USA of the 30th years. If to trust legends (and Caesar salad became legendary), once in Cesare's restaurant a large number of visitors came to celebrate an Independence Day of America. It was on July 4, 1924 - the date which became also a birthday of the well-known dish.
Kardini served as the chef in the institution. He didn't expect big influx of visitors and didn't calculate quantity of products in kitchen and the storeroom. At some point it was required to make fast snack for clients from what is. All grocery stores were already closed in the district.
Tell that the sharp-witted cook served simple, but juicy salad that day. It so was pleasant to visitors of restaurant that soon I became public property. Caesar Kardini patented salad under the Kardini and Original Caesar brands, and in 1953 its creation was recognized by the Parisian Epikureysky society the best recipe over the past half-century.
Main "highlight" of classical Caesar - egg with olive oil
Original Caesar salad
The recipe of that first Caesar salad which offered the guests Kardini remained. If to trust culinary magazines, the dish was light, dietary, didn't include either meat, nor fish ingredients. The enterprising cook used disposed greens, bread, cheese, a lemon, the Worcester sauce, garlic and the main highlight of salad made gas station of olive oil and specially made eggs.
History transfers the step-by-step recipe of classical Caesar salad so. The dish was rubbed with the cleaned garlic heads then in it salad lettuce leaves were laid out. The green basis was sprinkled by olive oil and fresh juice of a lemon.
Caesar Kardini boiled eggs within a minute, got them from the boiling water and dozen minutes in the room allowed to stand. I broke a part of eggs in salad, I postponed a part for gas station. Further grated parmesan, mix from chopped spicy greens among which there was a basil was added to a dish. For a sytnost – the reddened cubes white a toast. Finishing touches: a little Worcester sauce for piquancy and quickly moved gas station from eggs and olive oil.
Modern options of Caesar salad include chicken, fish and seafood
Modern recipes of Caesar salad
Over time the caloric content of popular Caesar salad increased: cooks began to add to it mayonnaise, chicken breasts, a turkey. Still the brother of Caesar Kardini, Alex suggested to diversify a dish with anchovies. Modern house and professional recipes shrimps, a tuna can include, a salmon, cherry tomatoes, language, herring, bacon, a baked chicken, mushrooms, a smoked salmon, a guinea fowl, claws of a crab and other ingredients.
Despite availability of store mayonnaise and other sauces, the real gourmets after all recommend self-made gas stations: home-made mayonnaise or classical mix of oil of olives and eggs – culinary cunning of Kardini.
To receive original taste of Caesar, it is important to take out in a couple of hours eggs from the fridge and to take at the room temperature, as a last resort, to put for a minute in the added some salt water which temperature of 30 wasps.
Salad appears in sets variations today, in it step-by-step descriptions of recipes, a photo and video allow to make sure of the Internet, culinary magazines. Some websites are even entirely devoted to a child of the American restaurateur. Here only some popular recipes of salad which can be made easily in house conditions.
Caesar salad with anchovies
Cut several pieces of a white grain crumb in cubes and fry toasts in vegetable oil on both sides, yet won't be reddened. While they cool down, scroll in the blender crude egg, the cut garlic clove, fillet 6 anchovies, 3 tablespoons of fresh juice of a lemon and a half of a teaspoon of mustard.
In the course of hashing by a thin stream pour in 3/4 glasses of olive oil. When in a bowl of the blender uniform light substance turns out, put the lettuce leaves torn manually from one head of cabbage in a salad bowl. Rub a half-glass of parmesan, mix a half of cheese with toasts, lettuce and home-made sauce, from above fill the remained parmesan.
Chicken Caesar salad
Cook two fillets of chicken breast in the added some salt water, cool and crush. In the blender scroll crude egg, a davleny garlic clove, several pieces of anchovies, a half-glass of olive or sunflower oil. Before the end of agitation in substance pour still a half-glass of vegetable oil, add salt, pepper and also a teaspoon of the Worcester sauce and a tablespoon of Dijon mustard to taste.
Mix a half-glass of vegetable oil with couple of davleny garlic subchik, a salt pinch, then fill in with the received mix the cut baguette and bake croutons on a baking sheet in an oven of 5 minutes at 200 OS. Divide 200 g of parmesan into halves, rub one, cut the second in cubes.
Mix leaves of one head of cabbage of the Roman salad with cubes of cheese, the gas station prepared in the blender, from above put chicken breast and crackers, strew cheese.
Mushrooms Caesar salad
From a half of long loaf prepare cubes white a toast, having reddened them in a frying pan in olive oil. Salt and pepper to taste, after browning mix with 2 teeth of davleny garlic and put in a dish.
In a frying pan where toasts were preparing, having added still some vegetable oil, put 300 g of the washed and cut champignons (chanterelles, saffron milk caps, a shiitaka or other), to taste salt. When stirring roast mushrooms until ready, one couple of minutes prior to the end of frying add 2 heads of grated garlic and pour a half of a glass of cut greens of parsley (basil, cilantro).
Mix toasts, mushrooms, a half-glass of grated parmesan, leaves from one head of cabbage of the Roman salad. After that make gas station: scroll in the blender couple of hard-boiled eggs, 2-3 fillets of anchovies, 2.5 teaspoons of an anchovy paste, pepper on a tip of a knife and 4-5 tablespoons of olive oil. When substance becomes homogeneous, fill with it Caesar salad. Enjoy your meal!
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