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Caesar Salad

Classic Caesar with garlic, anchovies, coddled egg, and freshly grated Parmesan — serves 4

Section
Soups & Salads
Yield
4 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 head romaine (approx 1½ lbs)
  • Salt
  • 1 medium clove garlic, crushed
  • ¾ cup olive oil
  • Juice of 1 large lemon
  • ⅛ cup red wine vinegar
  • 2–3 large splashes Worcestershire sauce
  • 2–3 dashes Tabasco sauce
  • Pinch of dry mustard
  • 1 coddled egg
  • ½ can flat fillet anchovies, cut into pieces and crushed into paste
  • Fresh ground pepper, to taste
  • ½ cup Parmesan and Romano, freshly grated

Directions

  1. Tear romaine into pieces. Set aside.
  2. In the bottom of a large salad bowl, combine salt, crushed garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, Worcestershire, Tabasco, dry mustard, coddled egg, and anchovy paste. Mix well.
  3. Toss in lettuce. Add fresh ground pepper to taste.
  4. Top with ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan and Romano cheese.
To double: use 3 lbs lettuce, increase olive oil to 1 cup, use 2 coddled eggs, the whole can of anchovies, two pinches of dry mustard, and add lemon to taste.