Choppers Twisted Caesar Salad
- 1 Cos Lettuce
- 4 large Rashers of Bacon
- 5 slice of Ciabatta Bread
- 1 large (or 2 small) Chicken Breast(s)
- 1/2 cup Fine Polenta (fine cornmeal)
- 1/4 cup Dried Oregano
- 1/4 cup Grated Parmesan
- 2 Eggs
- 1 large Bunch of Basil
- 250 grams Greek Yoghurt
- 1 tsp heaped, of Horseradish Cream
- 6 Anchovies
- 2 tsp White Wine Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Cherry or Pomegranate Juice
- 1 1/4 tsp Dijon Mustard
- 1/3 cup Grated Parmesan
- 1 tsp Brown Sauce
- 1 Salt and Pepper for Seasoning
- 1 Grated Parmesan to sprinkle over at the end
- Firstly, cook the Bacon Rashers the way you usually cook bacon but make sure they are nice and crispy.
- Put aside.
- Next, Preheat oven to 190F C
- Take the Polenta, the 1/4 cup of Parmesan and Dried Oregano and combine them well in a shallow dish
- Press Chicken Breast(s) into the Polenta mixture and roll and press all over the chicken.
- Bash the Chicken Breast(s) until they about 3/4inch thick all over.
- (You are not after schnitzel so don't bash it to thin)
- Place Chicken in frypan with a small amount (30ml) of oil over medium heat and cook Chicken through.
- About 6 minutes per side is about right but please check if in doubt).
- The crumb coating should char a little.
- That's ok, this is part of the flavour in the dish.
- When cooked, remove.
- Chicken and keep warm, uncovered.
- Next, place Basil, Greek Yoghurt, Horseradish Cream, Anchovies, Vinegar, Cherry Juice, Mustard, Parmesan and Brown Sauce into a blender (or use a hand blender) and whizz to combine well.
- Put aside.
- Dice up the slices of Ciabatta Bread into chunky bite size pieces.
- Shallow fry in a bit more oil in a frypan until golden.
- Put aside, keeping warm.
- Clean pan or use another frypan and half fill with water and bring it too just boiling stage.
- Take off of the heat and crack in the two eggs to poach.
- leave while you are assembling the salad.
- To assemble, pull bits of the Cos letteuce and arrange around the bottom of the plates.
- Next place around the plate then bacon which you have roughly chopped into bite sized bits.
- Take the Chicken Breast(s) and cut it into chunky portions and scatter evenly over the plates.
- Then add the Ciabatta croutons.
- Return to the Eggs and taking a spoon or alike, splash some of the hot water over the top of the egg to make the top go opaque.
- Back to the salad, give the sauce another stir and then spoon it over the salad until the amount you want is on there.
- Taking a slotted spoon, remove the Eggs and place one each in the middle of the salad.
- They will be cooked but still have a runny yolk by this time.
- this adds to the dish as part of a sauce so it shouldn't be cooked well done.
- Sprinkle over remaining Parmesan and season Eggs with salt
- Done!
- Enjoy!
cos lettuce, rashers, bread, chicken, polenta, oregano, parmesan, eggs, basil, greek yoghurt, horseradish cream, anchovies, white wine vinegar, pomegranate juice, mustard, parmesan, brown sauce, salt, parmesan
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/337780-choppers-twisted-caesar-salad (may not work)