Recipe

Caesar Salad

Celebrity chef, author & restaurateur, Adrian Richardson, cooks Caesar Salad over Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes on highly rated TV show Good Chef Bad Chef.

As seen on Season 3 of Good Chef Bad Chef

Ingredients:

  • 1 chicken breast poached or grilled chicken
  • 2 head baby cos lettuce
  • ¼ loaf crusty sourdough bread, cut into crouton size
  • poached egg
  • 100gm bacon to make crispy bacon, or thin slices of pancetta are fine
  • ½ cup vinegar for poaching
  • 1/8 cup thyme, roughly chopped
  • olive oil

Dressing:

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp dijon mustard
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 2 anchovies
  • 6 tablespoons vinegar reduction (brunch)
  • 600ml pure olive oil, not extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 cup parmesan, grated
  • salt & pepper

Method:

Marinade chicken in olive oil and thyme.

Char grill bacon and chicken in grittle pan. Once bacon is crispy, drain oil with paper towel. Roughly chop chicken and bacon.

In a bowl, whisk egg yolk, apple cidar vinegar, Dijon mustard and olive oil. Add anchovies.

In simmering water with vinegar, poach two eggs.

In a salad bowl place lettuce and croutons. Mix chicken and bacon through the salad. Place eggs on top. Drizzle salad dressing over salad and serve.

*Recipe by celebrity chef Adrian Richardson as seen on popular cooking series Good Chef Bad Chef. Image copyright Good Chef Bad Chef.

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