Caesar Salad
Caesar salad is one of the most well known and loved salads in the world! We love the Umami flavours of the anchovies, lemon and hearty parmesan with a French Chardonnay!
Caesar Salad
The Caesar Salad was invented in 1924, by brothers, Cardini and Alex Caesar; Italian immigrants to the U.S. Both lay claim to the salad, one brother using whole romaine lettuce leaves to scoop the dressing and the other adding anchovies. Regardless, in 1953, it was proclaimed to be the greatest recipe to originate from America in 50 years.Everyone has their favorite recipe. Here is ours. We always have this salad with Chicken Parmesan, Lasagna and Spaghetti. It just works with those and so many more dishes! Caesar Salad also shows up for summer barbeques and a grilled chicken breast.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- ¼ tsp. minced garlic
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- ¼ tsp. pepper
- ¼ tsp. dry mustard
- ½ TBSP Gluten Free Worcestershire
- 3 anchovies
- 2 TBSP fresh lemon juice 1/2 lemon
- ½ cup (35 gr) grated Parmesan cheese
- Lemon wedges for garnish
- 2 – 3 hearts of romaine (330 gr)
Instructions
- Blot anchovies with paper towel and finely chop.
- Grate Parmesan cheese.
- Add all salad dressing ingredients (oil, garlic, salt, pepper, dry mustard, Worcestershire, anchovies and lemon juice) to a small jar. Shake and let sit until ready to use. We just about always make the dressing earlier in the day.
- When ready to serve the salad, place torn lettuce in a large salad bowl. Drizzle the dressing and mix well. Sprinkle parmesan cheese and mix again.
- Garnish with lemon wedges.
Notes
Serving Caesar Salad alone, as a first course may change some of your wine options as compared to when serving alongside a bold Italian style meal.
The bold flavours in Caesar Salad pair with a Full Bodied White Wine and we have had tremendous success with a French Chardonnay – Novellum. It actually pairs very well with a steak alongside the salad. It is not a heavily oaked Chardonnay.
If Chardonnay is not your thing, try a Light Bodied Pouilly – Fume or a Chablis from France.
If looking for a red wine seek out a Pinot Noir, Old World Pinots are generally more earthy than fruit forward New World Pinots or a Gamay.
We’ve paired this salad with:
- Joseph Drouhin Pouilly – Fuisse
- La Crema Sonoma Pinot Noir
- Louis Jadot Bourgogne Pinot Noir
- Novellum Chardonnay