Caesar salad with Homemade Dressing! No Raw Egg/No Anchovies

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Ingredients
2 heads Romaine lettuce
grated or shredded Parmesan cheese
homemade croutons
For the Chicken:

1 and 1/2 pounds chicken tenders
2-3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 garlic clove, grated
1 teaspoon dried oregano
salt, to taste
freshly cracked black pepper to taste
For the Caesar Salad Dressing:

3/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup half and half
1 garlic clove, grated
1 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
black pepper
Instructions
Make the Dressing: Combine all of the salad dressing ingredients together in a small bowl and whisk together until smooth. Set aside.
Make the Chicken: Place the chicken tenders in a large bowl. Add all of the remaining ingredients to a small bowl and whisk together. Pour over the chicken and toss to coat. Cook the chicken either on a grill, in an air fryer or on the stovetop using a cast-iron skillet. (see notes) The chicken is ready when the internal temperature reaches 165 °F.
Cut the lettuce and wash with cold water. Drain and dry the leaves in a salad spinner. Transfer them to a large bowl and add the dressing, croutons, and parmesan cheese. Toss to coat.
Slice the chicken tenders and serve them on top of the salad.
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Notes
Chicken Cooking Instructions:

Air Fryer: Preheat the air fryer to 400 °F and cook the chicken in an even layer for 3-4 minutes per side. Air fry in several batches so that the chicken cooks evenly.

Stovetop: Heat a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add 2-4 tablespoons olive oil and then place the chicken in the pan in an even layer. Cook 3 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and slice the chicken after 5 minutes.

Grill: Heat a grill over medium-high heat. Grill the chicken 2-3 minutes per side.

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Hi everyone Yas to another episode of dimitra’s dishes today I’m going to teach you how to make the quick and easy version of the most delicious Caesar salad that’s going to be topped with chicken and homemade croutons that you’ve ever had it’s so easy to make you

Can get this on the table in like 253 minutes let’s get started so the first step for making the salad is to make sure that you have your croutons ready and if you haven’t watched my Crouton video you’re going to want to check it out it’ll be in the description box down

Below so make sure that you get that going cuz that’s that really takes the longest it takes about 20 25 minutes so you want to get that started so mine are baking in the oven and I’m going to now get my chicken prepared so I’m using chicken breasts today and the type of

Breasts that I’m using are the chicken tenders because as the name says they’re they just stay tender and juicy and they’re so easy to cook we don’t have to flatten them out or or anything like that I’m just going to season them with my leather lemono dressing so they’re in

A big bowl over here here I’ve patted them dry I’m going to add 1/4 of a cup of olive oil or you could add a little less because this is 1 and 1/2 lbs of chicken tenders I’ll slice this big lemon in half and then use half of the

Lemon’s juice in this because it’s going to add a lot of flavor one or two grated garlic cloves and then I’ll add salt to your liking this is to taste guys and some freshly cracked black pepper the usually the rule for salt is half a teaspoon per pound but I’ll leave it up

To you and then I’m going to add a heaping teaspoon of dried oregano toss this all together and you could set it aside for about 30 minutes so it can you know marinate and deepen the flavor once you’re ready to grill it you could either Grill it outside on the barbecue

Grill you could do this in your air fryer but I have a cast iron skillet that’s heating over medium high heat I love to cook these in the cast iron they’re ready in like 6 minutes and I also line my stove top with foil so that

Way the cleanup is easy too so once that Skillet is nice and hot hot I’m going to add the chicken they all fit in there all of these chicken tenders are going to fit in there so they’re all going to go in one even layer in My Pan and I’ll

Cook these for 3 minutes per side they’ll get nice and golden then I’ll transfer them to a plate if you want to check with the thermometer to see if it’s cooked you could insert a digital thermometer into the center and it should read 165° fah once you see that

I’m not doing that cuz I could really tell just by looking but you can check the temperature once it reaches 165 you can transfer them to a plate and let the chicken rest while we prepare the dressing and this dressing is so delicious there’s no raw egg in it there

Are no anchovies but it has so much delicious flavor and it tastes even better than the one that you’ll get at the restaurant so this is the the the at home cook version you guys this is not the cheffy one so don’t come at me in

The comments in a big bowl I’m going to put two garlic cloves in here I’ll leave it up to you I finally grated them and they’re ready to go three 3/4 of a cup of mayo 1/4 of a cup of half and half I’m also going to add the juice of half

Of a lemon you could do 2 to 3 tablespoons I’m also going to add a teaspoon of Dijon mustard this looks like a little bit more and it probably is I didn’t measure and then half a teaspoon of worest sire sauce that is the substitute for the anchovies you get

All of the flavor minus the fishiness and I’m not adding any salt to this cuz there’s plenty of salt already in the Mayo and in the sauce I’m just just going to add some freshly cracked black pepper and whisk this all up and that’s it you could give it a little taste and

It should taste perfect at this point I don’t think it needs anything else other than the cheese that’s going to be added in the end I know lots of people like to add cheese to this shredded parmesan but I like to add it over the salad and toss

It all together so now we’re going to get the the lettuce ready and of course in Caesar salad you’re going to be using Roma lettuce these are some Artisan Roma lettuce little bunches that I found found at my local Costco they’re so pretty and I just picked them up but you

Can use regular Roma lettuce that will definitely work go ahead and slice it up a lot of times when I’m making the salad I don’t even slice it I like to shred the leaves and make them kind of rustic but it is important to put them in a

Bowl that that’s already full of water just toss them around in there so if there’s any dirt between the leaves it’ll sink down to the bottom and then it’s very important when you’re making a salad with a nice dressing to get as much of the water off of the leaves as

Possible that’s why I like to use a salad spinner for this first I’m going to put it in the little drainer basket and just shake off as much of the excess water that I can then I’m just going to put it in there and press it down a

Couple of times or many times not a couple about 10 15 times to make it spin and release lots of that water as you can see so much water was released from the leaves you don’t want that mixing with your dressing cuz you’ll have a water down dressing and you won’t have

Much flavor I’m going to give these another Spin and then we’re going to put everything all together the same bowl that I made the dressing in I just transferred that dressing into a smaller bowl and I left some of the dressing in the Big Bowl cuz we’re going to put all

Of the lettuce in there add some more dressing on top of that a big handful of grated Parmesan cheese this is actually shredded I shredded it with my box grater so it’s a little bit thicker and I’m just going to toss everything all together it looks like it needs a little

More dressing so I’ll add some some more dressing to this then that’s it it’s ready I’m just going to trans it to my serving platter I’ll top it off with a grilled chicken that I’ve just sliced up using just a really sharp knife and I

Just like to put them on top like this they just look so pretty and then of course I’m going to add my croutons to this my homemade buttery garlicky delicious crunchy croutons you can toss them with the greens if you want I want them to retain a little bit of their

Crunchiness so I’m just going to put them on top and there you have it the salad is ready to serve just like that the Caesar salad is ready and my goodness it smells so good the grilled chicken is still so juicy even though I’m usually a fan of using a chicken

Thigh meat boneless skinless chicken thigh meat the chicken breast cook to Perfection over the stove top like I said before you can definitely cook this over a grill or even in your air fryer if you prefer I find that the air fryer doesn’t get hot enough and then you end

You could end up overcooking it but if you play with it you’ll get you’ll get it perfect sooner or later time for the taste test M oh my God the Lono marinade goes all throughout the chicken makes it Tangy garlicky the oregano is so good on it it

Is my go-to marinade anytime I’m making chicken that salad dressing is light and creamy and cheesy and just so good and let’s not forget the croutons m M way better than store bought so easy to make perfectly salty buttery Herby I know some recipes I’ve seen online call

For adding parmesan cheese to the croutons and although I love to add plenty of Parmesan cheese when I’m making garlic bread which is almost the same thing I don’t really like them in croutons you can add them if you want but there’s plenty of cheese in the

Salad as is I hope you guys give this recipe a try let me know what you think in the comment section down below the recipe can be printed did on the website tees.com thank you so much for spending time with me today I’ll see you all next time yes us