Classic Caesar dressing for Caesar salad
- Published: 30 Jun 09
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
A classic dressing recipe for a Caesar salad made with garlic, lemon, Dijon mustard, anchovies and extra virgin olive oil.
And here’s part B – the Caesar salad recipe itself!
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Serves 4
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Hands on time 10 mins
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Ingredients
- 1 large free-range egg
- 1 fat garlic clove, crushed
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce
- 10 anchovies in olive oil
- 100ml extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 cos lettuces, leaves removed and roughly sliced
- 75g ready-made croutons
- 75g Parmesan shavings
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Method
- In a small food processor, whizz together the egg with the garlic clove, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce and 2 of the anchovies. Season well with sea salt and black pepper, then keep the food processor running and gradually pour in the extra-virgin olive oil until the dressing becomes really thick and glossy. Set aside.
- Mix the lettuce with the remaining anchovies, croutons and Parmesan shavings, then drizzle the salad with the dressing and serve.
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- Recipe from July 2009 Issue
Nutrition
Nutrition: per serving
- Calories
- 377kcals
- Fat
- 29.8g (8.2g saturated)
- Protein
- 13.9g
- Carbohydrates
- 13.7g (1.8g sugars)
- Salt
- 1.6g
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Please note that this recipe contains raw egg.
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