Caesar Cardini Salad Recipes

CAESAR CARDINI SALAD

Steps:

• 1. In a food processor or blender, add parsley, lemon juice, garlic gloves. Pulsate until parsley is fine.
• 2. Add anchovies, eggs, salt and white pepper to incorporate into parsley mixture until anchovies have disappeared.
• 3. Slowly pour olive oil into mixture while blender or food processor is on medium or high and all is incorporated. (It will look like a pesto sauce.)
• 4. Add parmesan cheese and pulsate until well blended. Remove mixture and store in refrigerator until serving time.
• 5. Cut off the bottom of the romaine lettuce and separate leaves. To avoid handling lettuce, float leaves in a clean sink of cold water until lettuce is clean. Remove leaves to a paper or cloth towel to drip dry.
• 6. Rub a wooden bowl with a garlic clove. Very carefully tear leaves into pieces. (Each leaf into 3 or 4 pieces.)
• 7. Do NOT add dressing until ready to serve. (Dressing will quickly wilt the romaine leaves so the size of the salad will reduce by one-third after adding the dressing.) With clean hands, carefully pull leaves from bottom of bowl until all pieces are coated with the dressing.
• 8. Serve with 1/4" slices of french bread, sliced diagnoally and brushed with garlic and olive oil; then lightly toasted in the oven. No need for croutons with this recipe; the salad is simply too delicious standing alone.

ORIGINAL CESAR CARDINI CAESAR SALAD

Steps:

• Rub crushed garlic around salad bowl. (A wooden bowl is great for this.).
• Add salt, pepper, parmesan cheese, oil, vinegar, worcestershire, egg yolk, bacon bits to bowl and mix together.
• Toss with lettuce right before serving.
• Garnish with shaved parmesan.
• NOTES: If you prefer a more evolved dressing, add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 3-4 anchovies minced finely and then mashed into a paste and mixed well into the dressing. You can also add in croûtons.