Delicious "Caesar" with shrimp: detailed recipe and cooking tips

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• For the preparation of "Caesar's" prescription we need these ingredients
• Preparation of salad

The highlight of any holiday table with a delicious Caesar salad with shrimp. This dish is a masterpiece of Italian cooking and variation has long been beloved by all Caesar salad. Thanks recipe using shrimp salad this option enchants tenderness and richness of its taste. Each hostess has its recipes, secrets and peculiarities of preparation of this dish. We offer a recipe Caesar salad with shrimp, which requires a minimum of effort and time. This article provides useful tips on cooking Caesar salad.

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For the preparation of "Caesar's" prescription we need these ingredients

• large unpeeled shrimp - 700 grams.
• fresh loaf or baguette - 200 gr. (can be replaced by a pack of crackers)
• Quail eggs - 10 pcs., or 3-4 eggs,
• cherry tomatoes - 9-10 pc., or 2-3 medium tomatoes,
• half a lemon,
• a bunch of green salad or mixed salad,
• Parmesan or any other cheese varieties - 200 grams.
• refined sunflower oil - 150 ml.,
• Olive oil - 50 ml.,
• 1 clove of garlic (for the preparation of crackers)
• mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, salt, spices, herbs (for sauce).

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Preparation of salad

1. Baton cut into small cubes (not thicker than 1, 5 cm) and uniformly spread out in a single layer on a baking sheet. Lightly sprinkle with sunflower oil and sprinkled with chopped garlic. Put everything in a preheated oven, do not forget from time to time to stir toast. Bake in the oven at medium heat for 10-15 minutes, until lightly browned croutons and crispy.

   The main thing - keep an eye on toast, that they are not scorched. We are pulling the pan and set aside aside to cool. Also crackers can be fried in oil and garlic in a conventional pan. Fry over medium heat should be about 3-5 minutes until golden brown, stirring constantly. If you do not have time to cook the toast, you can buy in stores are usually white crackers flavored sour cream or garlic. As we prepare not the usual "Caesar", and with the addition of shrimp, it is advisable to add the croutons flavored seafood or shrimp.

2. For the preparation of dishes on the recipe, it is desirable to use a royal or tiger prawns, smaller species are less juicy and rich taste. Shrimps must first thaw completely. Next, fry the shrimp in sunflower oil on a strongly heated frying pan for 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly.

   Very tasty they are also obtained if the cook them on the grill. Pulling out of shrimp oil, cool, clean and pickle in lemon juice with spices, salt, pepper and other spices to taste. Set aside half an hour to shrimp marinated properly.

3. Good wash and boil quail eggs in salted water until cooked and allowed to cool. Clean and cut them in half. If necessary, quail eggs, you can easily replace conventional chicken (3-4 pcs.). In this case, more aesthetically pleasing to share them cut into slices.
4. Lettuce leaves soaked in cold water for 15-20 minutes, it will allow him to keep longer crisp taste, fresh and attractive appearance. Then gently leaves get wet paper towel and tear into small pieces. It is very important is to tear the lettuce as a knife when cutting the leaves lose their flavor and quickly lose appearance.
5. Prepare the sauce. Take 100 grams. mayonnaise and 50g. sweet (Dijon) mustard, add 100 ml of sunflower or olive oil, pepper, salt, seasoning and whisk in a blender until a thick homogenous. You can also add to the sauce chopped herbs (dill or parsley). Of course, if time and ability, mayonnaise, it is desirable to prepare, the recipe of which is a snap (Beat egg yolk, mustard, sunflower oil and lemon juice).
6. Prepare the tomatoes. According to the recipe for a more delicate taste they must be scalded with boiling water and remove the skin. Cherry tomatoes can be replaced with conventional red tomatoes, diced.
7. Take a nice big meal to feed our masterpiece and spread it torn lettuce leaves. Top the salad evenly pour half the sauce prepared in advance. Cut the tomatoes into 2 or 4 pieces and spread on the sauce with salad. Then lay the shrimp, sprinkling them on top of the marinade in which they were marinated. Sprinkle all the crackers and spread quail eggs.

   Pour all the remaining half of the prepared sauce. Sprinkle everything with grated parmesan cheese on a fine grater or any other hard cheese.

According to the recipe, Caesar salad can serve as a tiled layers and mix just before serving.

If guests a little, you can lay out a salad personally to each guest in a separate bowl. The dish turns out delicate, unusual and very tasty. Moreover, in addition to palatability, lettuce has bright and colorful appearance.

The ingredients for the sauce and Caesar salad can be prepared in advance and stored separately in a refrigerator . Spread the constituent layers is desirable immediately before the presentation of the guests as crackers soak after a while, become nehrustyaschimi and lettuce loses its taste.