Caesar Salad

"Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time." -- Janet Street-Porter

The Caesar salad is the one that moved greens from just being a side-dish to a main-course entree!

The salad is named after Chef Caesar Cardini who first whisked up this romaine lettuce and egg dressing combo at a Tijuana restaurant in 1924. Since then it's gone on to become one of the most popular salad variations world-wide! This lens will show you a variety of ways to make this delicious dish!

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Great Caesar's Salad! - a history
Get A Caesar Salad Cookbook
Caesar Salad Recipes
Serve Your Caesar In Style
To Egg or To Faux Egg... That Is The Question
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Great Caesar's Salad! - a history

The history and background of the Caesar Salad.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Food (Caesar Salad Daze): Was 'Caesar salad' invented by, or named for, Julius Caesar?
Caesar salad - Wikipedia: Caesar salad is a traditional salad often prepared tableside. It is sometimes termed the "king" of salads.
CAESAR SALAD: This wondrous salad, with all its tableside showmanship by waiters, became a sensation in America soon after its invention. To many, including myself, this is the king of salads. It was probably the first 'main course' salad, and topped with chicken or fish is truly a main course.
Food Facts & Trivia: Caesar Salad: Food Reference, Culinary and cooking history, trivia, kitchen & cooking tips & facts, recipes, quotes, humor, poetry and culinary crosswords

Get A Caesar Salad Cookbook

Want to find a way to get the most out of your Caesar? Like to eat this salad a lot but wish you knew how to vary it a bit more? This is the cookbook for you!

Joie Warner's Caesar Salads: America's Favorite Salad

by: Joie Warner

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Caesar Salad Recipes

welcome to caesar-salad.com: The creation of Caesar's Salad has been attributed to an Italian, Caesar Cardini, who at the time was a restaurateur in Tijuana, Mexico. According to records, supplies in the Cardini establishment ran short one holiday weekend in 1924. Caesar experimented and that evening the Caesar's Salad was born. "Take everything to the table" he said, "and make a ceremony of fixing the salad".
Surely Caesar: For lovers of Caesar Salad and all things related, with a sense of humour. Includes recipes, Caesar salad products, related articles, cartoons, information about ingredients, and a place to send in your Caesar recipes.
caesarsalad.org: Welcome to caesarsalad.org, the site dedicated to the original, world-famous Caesar's Restaurant, home of the Caesar Salad.
Caesar Salad Recipe for home cooks: How to make a great Caesar salad recipe with some history of the salad
Neuman's Easy Caesar Salad: This Caesar salad is heavy on fresh garlic and red and black pepper and will leave you feeling full for quite some time. The dressing is easy to prepare and you might just have all the ingredients lying around the kitchen already.
Caesar Salad, Salad Recipe: If you have never experienced "the show" that goes with tableside presentation, you don't know what you missed. What an opportunity for a waiter to show off his stuff, mixing and whisking to the delight of the patrons.
MUSHROOM CAESAR SALAD: A great brunch or dinner variation on the classic.
Italian Caesar Salad: Caesar dressing made the real Italian gourmet way. If you've eaten at a truly great Italian restaurant, and the Caesar dressing was incredible, they probably made it this way!
Caesar Salad 101: Serves 4. If you prefer not to use the raw egg yolk in this recipe, substitute one tablespoon of store-bought mayonnaise. The croutons are best made as close to serving time as possible.
Caesar Salad with No Eggs: This recipe, which omits the eggs, is made with a food processor.
Caesar Salad Dressing, Low Cal: Makes 1/2 cup. Per T: about 30 calories; 1 g protein, 3 g fat; 1 g carbohydrate.
Caesar Salad Recipe from diabetic-recipe.com: Per serving: 60 calories (58% calories from fat), 2 g protein, 4 g total fat (0.7 g saturated fat), 4 g carbohydrate, 2 g dietary fiber, 2 mg cholesterol, 2 mg sodium. Exchanges: 1 vegetable, 1 fat

Serve Your Caesar In Style

8-Piece Mahogany Caesar Salad Set (Mahogany) (8" H x 16.5" W x 16" D)

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To Egg or To Faux Egg... That Is The Question

caesar salads can be varied to suite many dietary preferences

One of the biggest questions I get asked about how I make my caesar salads is, do I use raw egg?

I have, but not all caesar salad recipes call for raw egg. Traditionally, you do use raw egg in the dressing, but uncooked or under-cooked egg is a great way to get food poisoning. If your body is very sensitive to what you eat, if your immune system is challenged, if you aren't making this dressing and then serving it immediately, or if you don't have a source for very fresh, organic eggs, I often suggest that people make a variation of this recipe that does not call for raw egg.

There are some great egg substitutes on the market now, and I frequently use those in place of raw egg. There are also variations of the dressing where the egg is "coddled" which is where you put it in boiling for water for about a minute, and it comes out less cooked than soft-boiled. You may have to try a few versions of caesar salad to find out which works best for you.