Caesar Salad - Recipe from The Diabetes Clinic
A lovely easy salad to put together for the family. Add in what you have on hand in the way of vegetables. We are using almonds for crunch instead of the traditional bread croutons to avoid the carbs. The dressing is fast to make with a stick blender and will keep for up to two weeks in the fridge.
Caesar Salad
Serves 4
1 cos lettuce washed and sliced
¼ small red cabbage finely sliced
2 chicken skinless and boneless chicken breasts
4 eggs boiled and peeled
1-2 radishes thinly sliced
Cherry tomatoes
50 grams sliced almonds
30g parmesan
Dressing
1 egg at room temperature
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp dijon mustard
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
3 anchovy fillets
3 cloves garlic crushed
½ c olive or avocado oil
50g finely grated parmesan cheese
Place the lettuce, shredded cabbage, radishes, and cherry tomatoes onto a platter. Place the chicken breasts between two slices of plastic wrap and flatten with a mallet or rolling pin to an even thickness about 2cm thick. Season with salt and pepper. Heat a small frying pan with a tablespoon of olive oil and cook the chicken for 4-5 minutes on each side until golden and cooked through. Set aside to cool then slice.
Toast the almonds in a dry pan until golden brown. Cool.
For the dressing place the egg, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, anchovies and garlic into a jug. Using a stick blender, blend until smooth.
Slowly drizzle the oil into the jug in a steady stream while blending. Mix through the parmesan cheese. Season with freshly ground black pepper. You probably won’t need any salt due to the salty anchovies and parmesan.
Pour half of the dressing over the salad leaves when ready to serve and mix through until evenly coated. Arrange the chicken, eggs, and almonds over the top. Drizzle a little more dressing over the salad. Shave the parmesan with a potato peeler and sprinkle over the top.
Any remaining dressing can be stored in the fridge for up to two weeks.
Recipe kindly provided by Julie Buckley (Nutritional Coach/Chef, Diabetes Clinic)
About the Diabetes Clinic
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Lisa was born in Auckland at the start of the 1970s, living in a small campsite community on the North Shore called Browns Bay. She spent a significant part of her life with her grandparents, often hanging out at the beaches. Lisa has many happy memories from those days at Browns Bay beach, where fish were plentiful on the point and the ocean was rich in seaweed. She played in the water for hours, going home totally “sun-kissed.” “An adorable time to grow up,” Lisa tells me.
Lisa enjoyed many sports; she was a keen tennis player and netballer, playing in the top teams for her age right up until the family moved to Wellington. Lisa was fifteen years old, which unfortunately marked the end of her sporting career. Local teams were well established in Wellington, and her attention was drawn elsewhere.