This Easy Caesar Salad recipe creates a restaurant-quality salad made simple with an easy blender dressing, shaved Parmesan, and homemade croutons!
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Raise your hand if you love Caesar Salad!! It’s one of my favourite things to enjoy as an occasional indulgence and I especially love making it at home, just the way we like it! This Easy Caesar Salad recipe was passed down to me by my mom and it’s a total family favourite! I know your family will love it too!
Easy Caesar Salad Recipe Ingredients
Ingredients you will need to make this salad recipe:
For the dressing
- garlic
- lemon
- Worcestershire sauce
- red wine vinegar
- dry mustard
- salt and pepper
- anchovies
- egg yolk
- olive oil
For the salad
- romaine lettuce
- shaved Parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper
For the croutons:
- French bread thick cut and day-old bread is best
- olive oil
- garlic powder
- dried parsley
- sea salt
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Caesar Salad Dressing
All you need to make this delicious easy Caesar Salad dressing is a blender! Blending the dressing makes it ultra creamy and smooth, and if you follow my super basic tips (in the recipe card below!) pretty soon you’ll be in ultra-creamy Caesar salad heaven! And for all you Caesar Salad lovers who are trying to avoid raw eggs for health reasons, you can easily make this dressing with a cooked egg yolk instead of a raw one. Simply hard boil an egg and use the semi-soft cooked yolk (boil the egg for about 7 minutes) in your dressing instead to yield almost the same result!
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I hope you love this easy Caesar Salad recipe as much as our family does! Let me know in the comments below, what’s the best salad you’ve ever had? I’d love to know!
Looking for more salad recipes? You’ll love these:
- Berry Walnut Spinach Salad with Maple Vinaigrette
- Rainbow Vegetable Pasta Salad with Creamy Italian Herb Dressing
- Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad
- Thai Chicken Spiralized Zucchini Salad
- Asian Cabbage Salad with Ginger Peanut Dressing
- Greek Couscous Salad Lunch Bowls
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Recipe Video
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Easy Caesar Salad with Homemade Croutons
Recipe: Equipment
Recipe: Ingredients
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 small can anchovy filets (about 8 filets or 50 grams)
- 1 egg yolk (can be raw OR cooked - from a soft boiled egg)
- 1/2 cup good quality olive oil
For the croutons:
- 8 slices french bread thick cut and day-old bread is best, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
For serving:
- 10 cups Romaine lettuce washed and dried, and in bite-sized pieces
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese freshly shaved
Recipe: Instructions
For the dressing:
- Add the garlic, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, dry mustard, salt, pepper, and anchovy filets to a blender.
- Add one raw egg yolk (NOT the egg white), or alternatively use a soft-boiled egg yolk from a hard boiled egg. SImply boil the egg for about 7 minutes to yield a softer yolk that's perfect for this dressing.
- Turn the blender on medium low speed and blend until the ingredients begin to come together (several seconds).
- While the blender is running, add the oil in a steady stream and continue blending until the mixture lightens in colour slightly and becomes very creamy and smooth.
For the croutons:
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil.
- When the skillet is hot, toss in the cubes of French bread, along with the garlic powder, parsley and salt.
- Toss everything together well in the skillet until the bread is coated in the seasoning.
- Toast the bread cubes over medium heat, watching them constantly and stirring regularly to prevent over-browning.
- When the croutons are sufficiently toasted, remove them to a plate to cool or serve them immediately over the salad.
Assembling the salad:
- Add the Romaine lettuce to a large salad bowl and pour the dressing over top, tossing well to coat.
- Add the Parmesan cheese on top and toss just a little bit.
- Add the croutons on top and serve immediately.
Recipe: Notes
Recipe: Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
I’ve never made homemade Ceasar dressing! Can’t wait to give this a try!
Easy, delicious and perfectly crispy and refreshing! Looking forward to enjoying this again for lunch today!
Love how easy this is to make without losing any of that restaurant quality flavor! Well done!
This is my favorite salad! I will try your recipe soon!
This Easy Classic Caesar Salad is so vibrant, healthy and yummy!
I want a big bowl of this right now! I may add some chicken and makes this a meal.
This salad is so much better than at the restaurant! Thank you for the recipe!