Caesar salad sauce: composition, recipe

• May 20, 2019
• Sauces
• Fedorova Victoria

The popular Caesar salad dressing will highlight the taste of this dish. Cooking it at home will delight your loved ones. In modern cooking, there are many sauces for dressing Caesar salad. It is important to use the specified components, otherwise the taste of the dish will become completely different.

Caesar salad dressing classic recipe

Ingredients for classic sauce:

• garlic, 2 cloves;
• egg yolk, 1 pc.;
• olive oil, 150 ml;
• Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon;
• anchovies, 4 pcs.;
• Worcestershire sauce, 1 teaspoon;
• lemon juice, 1 tbsp. spoon;
• grated Parmesan cheese, 50 g;
• salt;
• pepper, ground black.

Step 1: add mustard to the egg yolk and beat well. Salt and beat again. Add one drop of olive oil into the mixture, stirring while doing so. We achieve similarity of the mass with mayonnaise.

2nd step: at the next stage we prepare the anchovies: the fillet must be crushed.

Step 3: Next, add lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and prepared anchovy fillets to the mixture.

4th step: add chopped garlic to the mass too.

Step 5: Don't forget to add Parmesan cheese.

6th step: beat the resulting mixture thoroughly again, and here is our wonderful sauce in the classic version.

You can learn more about how to prepare the classic sauce from the video recipe:

Shrimp sauce “Green with dill”

The next sauce is also extremely simple, based on the taste of dill, which goes well with shrimp and makes the salad truly spring in taste.

Ingredients:

• a little dill;
• 1/6 part lemon (slice);
• 70-100 g mayonnaise;
• 2 cloves garlic

Preparation:

Finely chop the dill, cut the lemon into slices. Add dill and the juice of 1 lemon slice, chopped garlic to the mayonnaise, mix everything.

Caesar sauce with mayonnaise and parmesan

• 1/4 cup mayonnaise;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of lemon juice;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese;
• 2 anchovy fillets (or 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce);
• 1/2 cup olive oil;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

Using a press, chop the garlic. Add lemon juice to the mayonnaise mixture, add grated Parmesan, anchovies (or Worcestershire sauce), pepper and mix them in a blender.

If you use anchovies in the recipe, it is recommended to add a drop of honey to the mixture to reduce acidity. Worcestershire sauce already contains molasses or sugar, so no additional honey is required.

Olive oil is gradually added to the resulting mixture without stopping stirring. Add salt and mix. Parmesan cheese can be added directly to Caesar salad, or used in the preparation of sauce.

The output is about one glass of finished sauce, which is stored in the refrigerator.

Greek style feta cheese sauce

You can vary the creaminess that Parmesan adds to Caesar salad dressing, for example, by trying a feta-based salad dressing.

Ingredients:

• 100 g feta cheese;
• 1 tbsp. chopped parsley;
• 1 tsp dried oregano leaves;
• 1 tomato;
• 100 g olive oil or mayonnaise;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Mix grated feta with herbs, mayonnaise or oil, add finely chopped tomato, salt and pepper. Let it brew.

Caesar dressing without anchovies

• eggs – 2 pcs;
• juice of half a lemon;
• Parmesan cheese – 2 tbsp. spoons;
• olive oil – 1/2 cup;
• mustard – 2 teaspoons;
• garlic – 2 cloves.

Step 1: The creation of the sauce begins by boiling the egg in a special way: the egg shell, on the blunt side, must be pierced with a needle. The egg is placed in boiling water for 1 minute. There is an opinion that an egg boiled using this method and then cooled at room temperature acquires a number of new properties that affect the exquisite taste of the salad. Another point is that the egg must be heated to room temperature before use.

Step 2: The eggs prepared in this way are broken into a bowl, lemon juice is added and beaten.

Step 3: Parmesan cheese is grated on a fine grater and poured into the egg mixture, stirring thoroughly.

Step 4: Grind the garlic using a press and add it to the rest of the ingredients along with the mustard and stir. An important point is that the mustard should be sweetish, without a bitter aftertaste.

Step 5: Gradually add olive oil while stirring the sauce.

Step 6: The sauce is ready to serve.

Sauce for shrimp “Spicy with horseradish”

This sauce is for lovers of spicy spiciness and complements salad leaves and boiled, fried or grilled shrimp very well.

Ingredients:

• a small piece of horseradish root or prepared as a sauce;
• 100 ml ketchup;
• 50 ml mayonnaise;
• lemon and sugar for taste.

Preparation:

Grate horseradish on a fine grater and mix with other ingredients.

Caesar sauce with mustard

We prepare eggs using a special method (from the previous recipe). Break the eggs into a bowl, add lemon juice and beat. Finely grate the Parmesan, add it to the egg mixture, and stir. Add chopped garlic and mustard to the rest of the products. Whisk everything thoroughly, gradually adding olive oil.

Please note: we use sweet mustard, without a bitter aftertaste.

You can diversify this sauce recipe by adding 50 ml dry white wine or using only raw yolks in the recipe. It is not forbidden to add salt, pepper, spices to your taste.

Among chefs, the sauce prepared with the addition of anchovies is in great demand. It is believed that anchovies add a sophisticated flavor to the dressing, with notes of Worcestershire sauce.

Classic sauce composition

• olive oil;
• Worcestershire sauce (aka “Worcestershire”);
• capers;
• Parmesan cheese;
• anchovies;
• lemon juice;
• eggs.

After reading this composition, many immediately lose interest in cooking. But, if you think about it, there is no reason to deny yourself the delicious sauce.

1. Worcestershire sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for a year and used in other dishes.
2. Capers are great for other salads or pastas.
3. Cheese can be added to any pasta or creamy sauce.
4. Anchovies make a great pizza.
5. Eggs can be omitted from the recipe.

Sour cream sauce

This type of sauce has a neutral taste and is perfect for those who do not really like sour and spicy tastes.

• 1 cup sour cream, 20% fat;
• 1 teaspoon mustard, sweet;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 2 pcs. pickled cucumber.

Add finely chopped garlic and mustard to sour cream. Combine cucumbers chopped in a blender with the mixture and mix thoroughly.

Due to pickled vegetables, the sauce acquires a sharp, piquant flavor.

From orange and saffron

This is a rather unusual, but very tasty sauce.

Required Products:

• large citrus fruits – 1 pc.;
• brewed saffron - 2 tbsp. l.;
• regular mustard - 4 tsp;
• sesame seeds – 40 g;
• granulated sugar – 2 tsp;
• unrefined oil - 2 tbsp. l.

How to cook:

1. Cut and squeeze the orange.
2. Pour the squeezed liquid into a frying pan, sweeten, heat and evaporate the liquid over low heat for 20 minutes.
3. Infuse saffron in boiling water.
4. Combine the juice with mustard and cook for 30 seconds.
5. Fry sesame seeds over low heat.
6. Remove the juice and mustard mixture from the heat, combine it with the butter and stir everything thoroughly.
7. Add saffron water and sunflower oil to the orange mixture.
8. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Caesar sauce with sprats

• egg – 1 pc.;
• olive oil – 1/2 tbsp. spoons;
• lemon juice – 1 tbsp. spoon;
• garlic – 1 clove;
• sprats – 2-3 pcs. fish;
• ground black pepper – 1/4 teaspoon;
• sugar – 1/2 teaspoon;
• a pinch of salt.

Grind the sprats in a blender. Beat the eggs into a homogeneous mass, add lemon juice. Add sprat pate obtained by grinding in a blender. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and gradually add olive oil. Whisk the sauce until you get a homogeneous mass.

Another exclusive orange sauce for shrimp

Continues the orange-shrimp theme. You don't have to serve just one sauce; give your guests a choice and delight them with the flavors.

Ingredients:

• 2 oranges;
• dried clove inflorescences;
• 1-2 tsp. Sahara;
• saffron tincture;
• 25 g brown rum;
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice;
• salt to taste;
• ½ tsp. honey

Preparation:

Wash the oranges and stuff them with cloves, wrap them in foil and put them in the oven. Bake for 30-40 minutes. Then you need to pull out, remove the clove inflorescences and cut the baked oranges into slices, you also need to remove the seeds. Cut off the sharp edges of the slices, as these parts are quite tough. Cut the slices into pieces and transfer to a blender. Grind until smooth fruit mass. Add sugar, saffron tincture, rum, and lemon juice to the prepared orange mass.

Chef's tip! This sauce goes well with shrimp, Caesar salad and poultry; it can be a universal addition to the holiday table, both for salad and other dishes.

Caesar sauce with capers

• 3 egg yolks,
• one and a half spoons of sweet mustard,
• 4 cloves of garlic,
• 150 ml olive oil (second pressing),
• one and a half tablespoons of lemon juice,
• 35 gr. small capers,
• 40gr. anchovy fillets in oil,
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce.

1.In a bowl, beat the yolks, lemon juice and mustard for about seven minutes. Continue whisking until the mixture lightens in color and becomes thicker. Without stopping whisking, add olive oil and continue stirring for about 5 minutes.

2.Use a knife to chop the garlic cloves and capers and add to the mayonnaise. Heat the anchovies in a dry frying pan, cool and grind them into dust, add to our sauce. Mix everything and season with Worcestershire sauce. Our wonderful sauce is ready!

Balsamic Vinegar Sauce

This sauce is non-standard; it is used for various seafood salads. You can bring it to the classic recipe by adding mayonnaise, but you don’t have to do this.

Preparation:

• 2 tbsp. dark wine vinegar;
• 2 tsp mustard;
• 70-120 ml olive oil;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• 50 ml mayonnaise (optional).

Preparation:

Mix the ingredients and add a little oil at a time, whisking the mixture.

Recipe for classic Caesar dressing at home

Kitchen equipment: immersion blender with glass.

Ingredients

Step-by-step preparation

1. Beat two eggs into a glass for an immersion blender.

2. Pour 195 milliliters of sunflower oil, 15 grams of mustard into the eggs and beat with a blender.

3. Squeeze 3 cloves of garlic into the resulting mass, pour in 10 milliliters of lemon juice and 5-10 milliliters of Worcestershire sauce.

4. Place 9 anchovies, add 25 grams of grated Parmesan and blend with a blender into a mass with a uniform texture.

5. Add 3 grams of salt to the sauce and blend again with a blender. Transfer the finished sauce into a gravy boat and serve.

Video recipe

This video will help you clearly see the entire simple recipe for the classic Caesar salad dressing.

Caper shrimp dressing

There is another unusual sauce that is definitely worth trying. Instead of the usual anchovies, capers are put in it. In all other respects it is identical to the previous recipe.

What you will need:

• chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
• horseradish sauce – 2 tsp;
• lemon extract – 4 tsp;
• small garlic;
• capers – 4 pcs.;
• olive oil – 1 tbsp. l.;
• hard cheese – 120 g;
• any seasonings – a pinch.

How to cook:

1. Whisk horseradish, eggs, lemon extract, Parmesan, capers, garlic and butter in one container.
2. Add your favorite spices.
3. Season the dish with the prepared mixture.

Caesar sauce with Tabasco

Ingredients

Step-by-step preparation

1. Peel the garlic clove and chop it very finely. Sprinkle the chopped garlic with 3 grams of salt and try to crush it with a knife so that you get garlic paste.

2. Combine 5 grams of mustard, one raw yolk, 10 milliliters of lemon juice in a bowl and mix with a whisk until all ingredients are mixed.

3. Add garlic paste, 5 milliliters of wine vinegar to the resulting mass and mix thoroughly with a whisk.

4. Gradually add 45 milliliters of olive oil and mix with a whisk.

5. At the very end, add 5 milliliters of Worcestershire sauce, 2-3 drops of Tabasco and mix to form a mass with a uniform texture.

6. Transfer the finished sauce into a gravy boat and serve.

Video recipe

To clearly see the entire process of preparing Caesar sauce with Tabasco, I recommend watching the following video.

With greens

This is a fairly simple way to prepare a sauce, the main ingredient of which is greens, which gives it a spring mood.

Required ingredients:

• chopped dill and parsley;
• small lemon – 1 pc.;
• classic mayonnaise – 120 ml;
• fresh garlic – 2 cloves.

How to cook:

1. Chop the greens and cut the lemon into several pieces.
2. Add dill, lemon extract, garlic to mayonnaise and shake everything.
3. Season the salad with the resulting mixture.

Caesar dressing for chicken salad

Ingredients

Step-by-step preparation

1. Peel two cloves of garlic, chop very finely and transfer to a blender glass.

2. Cut 4 anchovies into small pieces and add to the chopped garlic.

3. Add one egg, 5 milliliters of lemon juice, 3 grams of salt, 7 grams of mustard, 15 grams of grated Parmesan to the resulting mass.

4. Blend the resulting mass with a submersible blender, gradually adding 145 milliliters of olive oil.

5. Continue whisking until the mixture acquires a uniform texture.

6. Pour the finished sauce into a gravy boat and serve or season the salad with it.

Video recipe

To add some spice to an ordinary salad, I recommend carefully watching the video with the recipe for Caesar dressing for chicken salad.

The simplest recipe

For those who love experiments and those who don’t want to bother making it strictly according to the classic version, I suggest making the simplest version of this salad dressing. Minimum effort, minimum cost. And what else is needed for happiness))) Cool, tasty and appetizing!

We will need:

• any salad dressing - 0.5 packs
• garlic sauce – 150 g
• soy sauce - 1 -2 tbsp

Cooking method:

Just mix all the ingredients together. Isn’t it very easy and simple, and most importantly it tastes good and tastes good? Experiment!

I found another video on the Internet, in which the sauce is made from boiled yolks, it couldn’t be simpler either, maybe someone will like this version of the dressing:

Homemade Caesar salad dressing

In this recipe you will learn how to make Caesar salad dressing at home. We offer a classic version of Caesar dressing: without anchovies and without mayonnaise.

• 70 ml olive oil,
• 1/3 lemon
• 1 teaspoon mustard,
• 1 egg
• 1 medium or 2 small cloves of garlic,
• a pinch of salt

The recipe for Caesar salad sauce is very simple, all preparation will take no more than 5 minutes.

Pour oil into a shallow bowl in which it will be convenient to mix the ingredients with a blender, add chopped garlic, mustard, salt and squeeze out the lemon.

Break the egg, it is very important that the yolk remains intact

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As you can see, making Caesar dressing at home is very easy. The sauce can be used not only for dressing Caesar salad, but also for serving with appetizers of potatoes or other vegetables.

Features of the sauce

For the Caesar salad, the famous dressing was created by restaurateur Caesar Cardini. He mixed the meager set of products that were present in the kitchen at that moment. The created sauce for a regular salad of croutons, herbs, and cheese was liked by restaurant visitors.

Caesar Cardini had his own vision of how to make the dressing tastier:

1. Eggs for the sauce must be pierced at the blunt end and placed in boiling water for 1 minute. They are cooled for a quarter of an hour. Eggs should be at room temperature before boiling.
2. During the preparation of the sauce, housewives are allowed to improvise, although it is important to preserve the special ingredients. Otherwise, the dressing will lose its unusual taste and aroma.

To prepare this dish, you need to decide in advance on the choice of dressing. This is especially important. To make the sauce at home, you don’t need to put in a lot of effort and time. It will contain a minimal set of products that will be suitable for many recipes. By adding new ingredients to the sauce, you can make your Caesar salad unique.

Depending on the recipe, the base of the dressing can be olive oil or mayonnaise, yogurt or sour cream, egg yolks or raw eggs.

It is convenient to prepare the sauce using a mixer or blender. Both devices will help you quickly and efficiently mix all the components. However, among famous chefs there is an opinion that it is best to whisk the sauce using a whisk. As a result, the dish acquires incredible taste.

Preparing the dressing does not take a lot of time, so anyone, even an inexperienced housewife, can handle it.

Classic Caesar salad sauce at home - recipe with photos and videos

You can, of course, buy ready-made “Caesar Sauce” in a retail chain, but it won’t be the same. Don't be lazy to make it yourself. Moreover, if you have the appropriate products, this can be done very quickly. Real Caesar salad dressing at home is aromatic, thick and fresh. This sauce can be used for various salads or Caesar rolls. These salads are distinguished by their special taste and their festive, spectacular appearance. They will decorate the table for any celebration.

Now I’ll quickly make Caesar sauce and invite everyone to take part in this event. I promise that the sauce that we prepare at home will greatly delight everyone who eats salads or rolls with it. On this blog you can see how to prepare Caesar salad with chicken fillet and croutons, as well as Caesar salad with shrimp. The products that we need for the sauce cannot be called simple. However, they can easily be bought in a large supermarket, which has a good range of products.

In this article:

Sauce for shrimp “Spicy mayonnaise”

Since the main ingredient of the Shrimp Caesar is shrimp, you can try shrimp sauces. They can be mixed additionally with mayonnaise if desired.

Ingredients:

• 2 parts mayonnaise;
• 1 part soy sauce;
• pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Mix mayonnaise with soy sauce and add pepper.

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Made with yogurt and soy sauce

This is a simplified version, which is prepared from yogurt and mustard, and can even be replaced with sour cream or mayonnaise. In this option, you can change the fat content of this product yourself, depending on what yogurt you prefer or buy.

This dressing option is low-calorie and very light. Try it, it turns out delicious!

This dressing tastes like real sauce made by professional chefs, restaurant and cafe chefs.

We will need:

• unsweetened yogurt dressing (mayonnaise, sour cream) - 250 g
• garlic - 1 head
• soy sauce - 3 tsp.
• spicy mustard - 2 tsp.
• lemon juice - 3 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. Pour mayonnaise into a blender bowl and squeeze 1 clove of garlic into it; you can take more, depending on your taste.

2. Then add mustard, mix everything with a spoon. Next, soy sauce and lemon juice.

Important! In order for the lemon to give more juice, you need to beat the lemon on the table and mash it, roll it pressing it to the table. After such actions, it will actually be much easier to squeeze out the juice!

3. Mix everything well with a spoon. You can already taste the miracle dressing, it should be delicious.

4. For a beautiful presentation, pour the resulting liquid into a container, and you can put the rest of the resulting liquid in the refrigerator.