Healthy 5-Minute Caesar Salad

I don’t know what kind of friend I am to have kept this Healthy 5-Minute Caesar Salad recipe away from you for this long. It’s been patiently waiting for what feels like umpteen years for me to post it!!

Anyway, there’s no time like the present – so let’s do this!!!

Healthy 5-Minute Caesar Salad

We all know that without the dressing, this salad is nothing but lettuce and frilly things; a great dressing and croutons is what makes this salad so special. If you take those key things away – the salad is nothing more than a Monday feeling … boring and meh.

Know what I mean?

But not any dressing/crouton will do, no. You need to make them at home to taste the difference for yourself. Store-bought things are loaded with ingredients, many of which I’m not sure you’d want to know but will share anyway. Here’s one dressing brand’s short list of ingredients:

“Soybean Oil, Water, Parmesan Cheese (Pasteurized Part-skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Distilled Vinegar, Egg Yolk, Red Wine Vinegar, Salt, Anchovies, Dijon Mustard (Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Water, Salt, White Wine, Spice), Contains Less Than 2% Of Garlic,* Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sugar, Spice, Molasses, Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Natural Flavor, Tamarind, Celery Seed. *Dried. Contains Egg, Fish (Anchovy), Milk”

And here’s a list of ingredients for the average crouton brand – dust your dictionary and get ready to use it:

“ENRICHED FLOUR, CANOLA AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL, WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SALT, YEAST, 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: WHEAT GLUTEN, MALTODEXTRIN, GARLIC, WHEY, ONION, SPICES, TORULA YEAST, NATURAL FLAVOURS, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, PARMESAN CHEESE (PART SKIM MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), DOUGH CONDITIONERS (MAY CONTAIN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWINGS: SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM PEROXIDE, CALCIUM SULFATE, AMMONIUM SULFATE, CALCIUM IODATE, ASCORBIC ACID), CULTURED WHEY, CITRIC ACID, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, CARAMEL COLOR, SUGAR, SOY SAUCE SOLIDS (WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT), TAMARINDS AND ASCORBIC ACID, ROSEMARY EXTRACT AND/OT ALPHA TOCOPHEROL.”

This is why I advocate homemade over store-bought anything.

Why you’re going to love this recipe

This Caesar salad is simply made, using healthy wholesome ingredients, and made free from:

• dairy

• egg

• peanuts

• tree nuts

• soy

• fish

• shellfish

• sugar

In summary: Good ingredients. Healthy. Creamy. DELICIOUS!!

Check out these other delicious salad recipes I know you’ll love! Harvest Kale, Lentil Chickpea, Berry Fig.

Can’t wait for you to give this salad a try! I love this dressing so much, and the croutons are perfectly baked too.

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Happy salad making!! xx