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Quick Chicken Caesar

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Recipe by Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon garlic oil
  • 30ml extra-virgin olive oil
  • 3 tbsp Technique: Grate Shredding a large ingredient to produce small, evenly-sized morsels. You can grate ingredients using a grating disc fitted inside your food processor. I know this Teach me, please grated Parmesan cheese
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 2-3 anchovies, optional
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt flakes or 1/4 teaspoon pouring salt (use none if you add anchovies)
  • 1 cos or cos lettuce, or 2 hearts
  • 150g cold chicken, shredded
  • Pepper, to taste
  • Generous handful (approx. 50g) natural tortilla chips

Use imperial measurements

Method

How to make Quick Chicken Caesar

Crack the egg into a bowl, and Technique: Whisk Using light, rapid sweeping strokes to thicken or thoroughly combine ingredients. You can also use a whisk attachment attached to a food processor. I know this Teach me, please whisk well as you add the oils, Parmesan and lemon juice. If you're not going to add an anchovy or two, Technique: Whisk Using light, rapid sweeping strokes to thicken or thoroughly combine ingredients. You can also use a whisk attachment attached to a food processor. I know this Teach me, please whisk in the salt.

Break the crisp lettuce into bite-sized pieces and put into a salad bowl. Drop in the shredded cold chicken, mix to combine and season with pepper, to taste.

Toast the tortilla chips for a couple of minutes in an oil-less pan over a medium heat.

Give the dressing another Technique: Whisk Using light, rapid sweeping strokes to thicken or thoroughly combine ingredients. You can also use a whisk attachment attached to a food processor. I know this Teach me, please whisk , pour it over the salad and toss to mix. Add the tortilla chips (and some anchovies, if you like) and toss again before wolfing down.

Recipe from Nigella: Kitchen by Nigella Lawson (published by Chatto & Windus).