**The Art of Cooking a Chicken Caesar Salad**

When it comes to cooking a chicken Caesar salad, there are several techniques that can elevate this classic dish from ordinary to extraordinary. In this article, we'll explore three key cooking methods: grilling, frying, and roasting. We'll also cover the preparation of croutons, oven-roasted tomatoes, and the perfect Caesar dressing.

**Preparing the Chicken**

To start, we need to prepare our chicken breast. The first step is to butterfly the breast by cutting it through the thickest part, making sure not to cut all the way through. This will allow us to open up the breast like a book and trim down the edges. Next, we'll add a marinade made from lemon zest, garlic, oil, and seasonings. The marinade is simple but effective, and can be applied hours in advance for added flavor.

**Making Croutons**

Now that we have our chicken prepared, it's time to make croutons. We'll use stale bread, cut into small cubes, and fry them until crispy using a dry frying technique over medium heat. The key is to cook the bread gently, so it absorbs just enough oil to become golden brown.

**Roasting Tomatoes**

While our chicken is cooking, we can oven-roast some Roma tomatoes. Simply place the tomatoes in the oven at a moderate temperature and roast until tender. This method will give us perfectly cooked tomatoes that are full of flavor.

**Grilling Chicken**

Next up, we'll be grilling our chicken breast using a cast iron griddle or barbecue. We'll add a small amount of oil to the pan and cook the chicken for 2-3 minutes on each side. The key is to get those sexy grill lines by not moving the chicken before flipping it.

**Making Caesar Dressing**

Now that our chicken is cooked, we can make the perfect Caesar dressing. We'll start with a simple mixture of mayonnaise, chopped anchovy, grated parsley, and garlic. Add some lemon juice, Parmesan cheese, and a splash of water to thin out the dressing. This is a potent sauce, so be careful not to add too much.

**Assembling the Salad**

Finally, it's time to assemble our salad. We'll chop up some fresh lettuce and place it on top of the chicken breast. Add some croutons, roasted tomatoes, and shaved Parmesan cheese to finish off the dish. The key is to keep things simple and let each ingredient shine.

**Tips and Variations**

One final tip for cooking a perfect Chicken Caesar salad: don't overcook the chicken. We want it to be juicy and succulent, with just a hint of pink in the center. With these three cooking methods and some creative preparation, you'll be able to create a delicious Chicken Caesar salad that's sure to impress. Whether you're grilling, frying, or roasting, this recipe has something for everyone.

For those who want to try this recipe at home, don't forget to check out the full recipe below. With just a few simple ingredients and some basic cooking techniques, you can create a mouth-watering Chicken Caesar salad that's sure to become a new favorite.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhave you ever wanted to learn to cook but just didn't know where to start well we're the guys from sorted food and we've teamed up with Co-op to create now cook it a free online course to show you how to up your food game so head over to now cook it to get started but for now check out this video from the course chicken Caesar salad an absolute classic and we're going to be learning how to grill fry and roast in one recipe all very very simple we're going to start with the roasting or kind of oven drying okay so a very low temperature we've got our oven on at 140° C preheating and all we're going to do is take a bowl of cherry tomatoes and we want to Harve them and then lay them out on a grill pan or baking tray and we're going to oven dry them about 60 Minutes in the oven so they become super sweet best way to do that is with a serrated knife because tomatoes are so soft the serrated bit is going to help saw through rather than chop through you can skip the step and just use half cherry tomatoes but by drying them out they become tiny little pellets of awesome sweetness a little drizzle of olive oil pinch of seasoning and then into the oven next up the chicken in our chicken Caesar salad now this is going to be enough for four people but the way we're going to cook this we actually only need two chicken breasts so what we want to do is cut off any of the white bits you get around a chicken breast and the next bit is Magic cuz we're going to be turning this into a butterfly yeah which basically gives you what looks like twice as much we're going to cut it right through the middle so the thickest part of the breast with your hand on top and a sharp knife we're just going to cut it in not all the way through what you do is open it up just like a book and you can just trim down there and it turns into a butterfly the most attractive thing ever the reason we do that is it will cook quicker which means it stays super succulent plus there's now a larger area that we can put a marinade on so you can start with the marinade which is the zest of a lemon and then a grated clove of garlic add a little bit of oil to that as well and then season it and if you Rubble that in that's the marinade done now you can cook this straight away it's a very simple kind of flavor coating not just a marinade or you can leave it for several hours covered in a fridge and it will get even better in the meantime we can get rid of this bord and knife or the raw chicken and wash our hands next up and I know we're jumping around a little bit but it's going to be the croutons and we're going to fry them but a much healthier version It's a dry fry cut from any old bread you've got doesn't matter even if it's a little bit stale in fact that makes it better we're going to take the crusts off cut them into small cubes we're going to place all of those into a bowl a little bit of oil we'll season up the bread slightly what we want is a frying pan over a medium heat okay and when we say dry fry this bread will just absorb a little bit of that oil and we cook it over a gentle heat tossing occasionally we get a nice dry fry do it until they're pretty much golden all over now we've got our Tomatoes oven roasting that's a direct heat inside of the oven we've got these dry frying so that's heat from underneath with a little bit of oil now we're going to grill this one we've got a cast iron griddle this would also work really nicely on a barbecue and then because our chicken has already been oiled they can go straight into the pan in a hot griddle like that a chicken will need about 2 or 3 minutes on either side while it Cooks we can make a dressing so very very simple we have got two anvy fets 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise and some fresh parsley chop up the anvy chop up the parsley and another half clove of garlic just grated in mix it into the mayonnaise with a splash of waser sauce sometimes you'll find there's parmesan in it as well of course and if you want to make this a little bit thinner a splash of water there is no harm in that because Caesar should be a little bit thinner now I think it's time to flip the chicken now it's important don't move the chicken before you flip it cuz if you want those sexy griddle lines you have to get it right first time W perfect we got a couple of Roma lettuce freshly washed nice and crisp all we're going to do is very very roughly chop them up we want proper chunky pieces and then I quite like to take a few of the internal leaves of one of them and just keep those whole to dress the salad dressing goes over because the lettuce been washed that will thin out but this is quite a potent sauce and you see what happens it kind of thins out and gives you that incredible Cesar dressing cut into the largest part of the chicken and what you're looking for is something that's cooked all the way through it should be beautifully juicy and succulent but no pink pop it on the plate to rest now we've got enough here for four but we're just going to plate one to show you what we mean so one of those saved lettuce leaves just on the side to give it a bit of height get it now there loads of gorgeous chicken to pop on there and we're going to finish the entire thing off with some Parmesan shaving and there we go a beautiful salad with three different cooking techniques grilling frying and roasting that's everything you need to know to make a chicken Caesar salad salad's not just about Flavor it's about texture as well such simple processes and things like the croutons and the oven dried tomatoes they're going to keep for a good few days croutons airtight bag on the side Tomatoes wrapped up in the fridge and you can throw them into all sorts of salads beautiful tip if you want the full recipe then get that down below you can cook this at home tonighthave you ever wanted to learn to cook but just didn't know where to start well we're the guys from sorted food and we've teamed up with Co-op to create now cook it a free online course to show you how to up your food game so head over to now cook it to get started but for now check out this video from the course chicken Caesar salad an absolute classic and we're going to be learning how to grill fry and roast in one recipe all very very simple we're going to start with the roasting or kind of oven drying okay so a very low temperature we've got our oven on at 140° C preheating and all we're going to do is take a bowl of cherry tomatoes and we want to Harve them and then lay them out on a grill pan or baking tray and we're going to oven dry them about 60 Minutes in the oven so they become super sweet best way to do that is with a serrated knife because tomatoes are so soft the serrated bit is going to help saw through rather than chop through you can skip the step and just use half cherry tomatoes but by drying them out they become tiny little pellets of awesome sweetness a little drizzle of olive oil pinch of seasoning and then into the oven next up the chicken in our chicken Caesar salad now this is going to be enough for four people but the way we're going to cook this we actually only need two chicken breasts so what we want to do is cut off any of the white bits you get around a chicken breast and the next bit is Magic cuz we're going to be turning this into a butterfly yeah which basically gives you what looks like twice as much we're going to cut it right through the middle so the thickest part of the breast with your hand on top and a sharp knife we're just going to cut it in not all the way through what you do is open it up just like a book and you can just trim down there and it turns into a butterfly the most attractive thing ever the reason we do that is it will cook quicker which means it stays super succulent plus there's now a larger area that we can put a marinade on so you can start with the marinade which is the zest of a lemon and then a grated clove of garlic add a little bit of oil to that as well and then season it and if you Rubble that in that's the marinade done now you can cook this straight away it's a very simple kind of flavor coating not just a marinade or you can leave it for several hours covered in a fridge and it will get even better in the meantime we can get rid of this bord and knife or the raw chicken and wash our hands next up and I know we're jumping around a little bit but it's going to be the croutons and we're going to fry them but a much healthier version It's a dry fry cut from any old bread you've got doesn't matter even if it's a little bit stale in fact that makes it better we're going to take the crusts off cut them into small cubes we're going to place all of those into a bowl a little bit of oil we'll season up the bread slightly what we want is a frying pan over a medium heat okay and when we say dry fry this bread will just absorb a little bit of that oil and we cook it over a gentle heat tossing occasionally we get a nice dry fry do it until they're pretty much golden all over now we've got our Tomatoes oven roasting that's a direct heat inside of the oven we've got these dry frying so that's heat from underneath with a little bit of oil now we're going to grill this one we've got a cast iron griddle this would also work really nicely on a barbecue and then because our chicken has already been oiled they can go straight into the pan in a hot griddle like that a chicken will need about 2 or 3 minutes on either side while it Cooks we can make a dressing so very very simple we have got two anvy fets 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise and some fresh parsley chop up the anvy chop up the parsley and another half clove of garlic just grated in mix it into the mayonnaise with a splash of waser sauce sometimes you'll find there's parmesan in it as well of course and if you want to make this a little bit thinner a splash of water there is no harm in that because Caesar should be a little bit thinner now I think it's time to flip the chicken now it's important don't move the chicken before you flip it cuz if you want those sexy griddle lines you have to get it right first time W perfect we got a couple of Roma lettuce freshly washed nice and crisp all we're going to do is very very roughly chop them up we want proper chunky pieces and then I quite like to take a few of the internal leaves of one of them and just keep those whole to dress the salad dressing goes over because the lettuce been washed that will thin out but this is quite a potent sauce and you see what happens it kind of thins out and gives you that incredible Cesar dressing cut into the largest part of the chicken and what you're looking for is something that's cooked all the way through it should be beautifully juicy and succulent but no pink pop it on the plate to rest now we've got enough here for four but we're just going to plate one to show you what we mean so one of those saved lettuce leaves just on the side to give it a bit of height get it now there loads of gorgeous chicken to pop on there and we're going to finish the entire thing off with some Parmesan shaving and there we go a beautiful salad with three different cooking techniques grilling frying and roasting that's everything you need to know to make a chicken Caesar salad salad's not just about Flavor it's about texture as well such simple processes and things like the croutons and the oven dried tomatoes they're going to keep for a good few days croutons airtight bag on the side Tomatoes wrapped up in the fridge and you can throw them into all sorts of salads beautiful tip if you want the full recipe then get that down below you can cook this at home tonight\n"