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How To Make A Caesar Salad Dressing and How To Bake Perfect Croutons.
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How to make croutons:
Cut any white bread into 3/4 inch cubes. Put it in a bowl, sprinkle little salt, black pepper, finely chopped parsley, garlic powder (unless you are using garlic flavored olive oil) and drizzle a bit of olive oil over the bread. Mix everything together with clean hands, transfer to a baking tray and put it in the oven preheated to 325F for 15-20min.
Why 20 min? The longer they toast, the harder the croutons will be and will not get soft when the dressing is added to a salad.
The dressing:
2 tablespoons of lemon juice, that’s about juice of 1 lemon
¾ teaspoon Dijon mustard
¾ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 garlic clove , pressed or grated if you are using a hand whisk. Or coarsely chopped
If using a blender
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
¼ cup mayonnaise
Mix the above ingredients a little and start adding 1/2 cup of canola or any vegetable oil
with no or little flavor. As the oil being poured in a thin flow, vigorously whisk the mixture
with a hand whisk or simply use a handheld (immersion) blender.
Add 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese to the dressing and mix well.
Cut the romaine lettuce into 1 inch pieces, add croutons and the dressing. Mix and serve.
Sprinkle more parmesan cheese, preferably shredded and not grated, ( just for appearance) over the salad.
Why use romaine lettuce? It is harder than most of other greens and will not get soggy too fast from the thick Caesar salad dressing. Romaine works well with spinach in this recipe.
Quartered tomatoes will add more color to this great Caesar salad recipe.
A few words about the Caesar Salad
How to make Cesar salad (how to make Caesar salad) taste better than any other?
Well, the best Caesar salad dressing is what YOU like. The sure way to find one that
will make you happy is to look for 3-5 Caesar salad recipes on the internet. Chose the ones that have 4-5 star rating. And make sure that they are somewhat different. And just make one after another following the recipe to a T. You can make all of the Caeser salads at once and invite a small group of friends to taste them and to vote for the best.
Or just make one at a time and chose alone what you like.
To make perfect croutons for the Caesar salad, follow the recipe above. And again, if you like them hard, bake croutons at lower heat for longer time.
If you want to make croutons crunchy outside and soft inside, increase the temperature and bake them less time.
Garlicky croutons recipe or onion croutons or cinnamon flavored croutons, is all a matter of what you sprinkle over your bread. Good luck.
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