Caesar salad - one of the most popular dishes of North American cuisine. Simplicity of preparation, availability of ingredients involves even housewives, inexperienced in cookery. The exclusive taste of salad is reached in many respects thanks to original gas station which recipe was developed about 90 years ago.
It salad is the inventor Caesar Kardini (1896-1956), the American of the Italian origin. On the holiday Independence Day of the USA on July 4, 1924 it offered visitors of the restaurant in the city of Tijuana the new salad picked from everything that remained in the storeroom by the end of day. Unexpectedly it was pleasant to visitors, and the institution Kardini turned into fashionable bohemian restaurant.
Tijuana is the city in Mexico on border with the USA in only 40 miles from the city of San Diego. In the territory of Mexico in the 1920th years "Prohibition" didn't work, and the Mexican cities got popularity among fans of alcohol and gamblings.
"Classical" recipe Caesar. In the salad grated with garlic the romaine salad torn by hands gives all the best, the polished Parmesan cheese, toasts cut into cubes and reddened in an oven is added, and for filling olive oil of the first extraction, lemon juice, several drops of the Worcester sauce, a grass (tarragon and a basil) and also the fresh eggs welded within a minute in boiled water is used.
Gas station has to envelop all ingredients of salad, connect them in uniform gastronomic ensemble. The salad made in such a way is decorated with fresh greens and immediately is served on a table. In 1948 Caesar Kardini and his spouse Roza took out the patent for the structure of gas station and opened its mass production. And in 1953 their salad gained world recognition. "Epikureysky society" of Paris called the recipe Caesar the best recipe, appeared in the USA for the last 50 years. Modern variations of Caesar huge number. Caesar Kardini's brother Alex suggested to add anchovies to gas station, having called this recipe "The pilot's salad". At some restaurants, sauce to Caesar began to be done on the basis of mayonnaise, sour cream or cream with mustard, olive oil with pepper, garlic and also soy sauces.
Mayonnaise for Caesar - the French sauce from the olive oil which is shaken up in homogeneous mass, a crude vitellus with small addition of sugar, salt and lemon juice.
The most popular modern recipe Caesar - with the boiled or soaked in marinade and slightly fried on a grill chicken and cherry tomatoes. To it spicy sauce is required gentle, but at the same time slightly. The following option of gas station to Caesar with chicken is rather popular. On 2 yolks 100 ml of olive oil, 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 teaspoons of mustard and the crushed garlic glove and a pinch of salt will be required. Slightly boiled (2-3 minutes) egg is cooled, broken, separating yolks, mix with all ingredients of sauce. That gas station became homogeneous, it is intensively mixed, and then allow to infuse a little. For Caesar with shrimps (the slightly smoked salmon or a salmon) add the Worcester sauce, the crushed anchovies and Tabasco to gas station.
The Worcester sauce does taste of shrimps more expressed.
Gas station to Caesar - an opportunity to experiment for any hostess.