Best Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe

My all time favorite salad dressing for over 20 years running has been Caesar salad dressing. But here’s the thing, I don’t like just any ole Caesar salad dressing. Although it’s true I like most of the Caesar dressings I’ve tried, my absolute favorite is THIS specific recipe. Of the dozens of Caesar dressings I’ve bought none of them hold a candle to this recipe in my opinion. It truly is the Best Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe in my humble opinion!

Tips for making this the Best Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe…

It’s a tricky recipe though. So remember how I told you in one of the first recipes I posted on this blog that most my recipes would have approximate measurements, but I’d let you know if a recipe needed to be followed exactly? Well, I’m letting you know. Follow this recipe exactly! If one of the ingredients are slightly off the results just don’t taste the same.

The Backstory

This recipe came from friends of my family growing up. I still remember how my parents, little brother and I would travel a couple hours from Washington to Sandpoint, Idaho a few times a year to visit these great friends we had-either that or they were coming to our home. We would have such fun get together’s and I can still hear the laughter that would ring late into the evening and into the morning hours from the parents.

Those good memories often come to mind when I make this Caesar Salad! I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I do, and that you find it the go to salad for when you are entertaining your dearest friends and family too!

Oh, before I forget, do you know what a “coddled” egg is? Way back when before we had the internet to look it up we had a grand time trying to accurately decipher that! In case you don’t know, HERE’S A TUTORIAL FROM THE EVERYDAY MAVEN.

A is for Anchovy

So this recipe does contain anchovies. I know a few of you out there might not like them. If that is the case I suppose you could leave this ingredient out just remember it isn’t nearly as good if you do-in fact I just plain don’t even like it if the anchovies are left out. Also, let me tell you that I’ve made it before for people who really hated anchovies (not on purpose). They still loved the dressing and asked for the recipe-they had no idea it had anchovies until they saw the recipe! The anchovies in this dressing are anchovy paste and not actual anchovies. I have tried it with actual anchovies and it doesn’t taste as good. There’s something special about the paste.

Best Caesar Salad Dressing EVER

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Ingredients

  

• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 rounded teaspoon anchovy paste
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 1 coddled egg yolk
• 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1 Tablespoon vinegar
• 2 heaping Tablespoons Parmesan cheese
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 2/3 head of romaine lettuce chopped or torn
• Croutons

Instructions

 

• Mix the first 4 ingredients into a paste. Stir in the remaining ingredients one by one, mixing after each addition, and toss with croutons and lettuce. Serve within 15 minutes.

If you try this recipe be sure to come back and tell me what you think!!! If you love salads be sure to check out my Mediterranean inspired cabbage salad HERE.

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