Caesar salad recipe, yogurt dressing, roasted palm hearts

We receive the new year with great optimism that the pandemic is coming to an end, putting all the effort in projects that could not be fulfilled, energy in each work that we will do and with the awareness of taking care of ourselves and being responsible with our environment.

It is also a year of proposing new goals, health, personal, family, work. I have particularly decided to eat more balanced, without having to deprive myself of everything that gastronomy offers, but to better measure the amount of fats and products that can affect us, better combine proteins, carbohydrates, increase the percentage of vegetables and fruits, among others. things.

And beyond the years go by, now we must take care of our immune system against the viruses that are there and that will come.

So to start with the promise, we will start this year with a classic salad, “la César”, which is one of the dishes that has had the most evolutions since its original recipe, but this is how cooking is, however, if we succeed and know the essence, the new forms, flavors, textures and ingredients, will combine quite well.

Ingredients:

2 packages of lettuce

1 head of garlic roasted

5 fillets of anchovies in oil

2 tablespoons capers

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

· ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Lemon juice to taste

2 cups of unsweetened plain yogurt

1 tablespoon of honey

· Room

Freshly ground black peppercorns

½ cup olive oil

Bread croutons

· Parmesan

4 stems of palm heart

200 grams of bacon

Elaboration:

· Crush the garlic cloves with the anchovies and capers in a mortar until they are pureed.

· Season with Worcestershire sauce, mustard, lemon juice, honey and olive oil; stir well.

· Add natural yogurt, salt and black pepper to taste; stir well and reserve.

· Chop the bacon and brown it over low heat in a frying pan, remove it and keep the butter.

· In this butter, brown the palm hearts cut into slices or sheets.

· Chop the lettuces by hand and immerse them in ice water for 5 minutes.

· Drain well and mix with the sauce until all of it adheres to the lettuce.

· Place the salad on a plate, add the croutons, crispy bacon, Parmesan cheese and the golden palm hearts at the end. (I)