Caesar Salad Simulation

October 23, 2011

Vegangela's Caesar salad recipe as well as our recent experiments amongst tempeh bacon. Michael was upwardly for it. Not finding tempeh at the shops, he trialled tofu bacon as well as it was pretty fab too! More fleshy, for desire of a meliorate word, as well as less crispy. Meanwhile I pulled together the salad dressing as well as it was merely my form of thing, a piddling creamy as well as rattling tangy. We loved this salad. When the croutons ran out the adjacent day, our remaining tofu bacon as well as dressed lettuce leaves made keen sandwich fillings.

Later inward the calendar week I was at a catered consequence featuring 2 large bowls of Caesar salad. It struck me every bit rather inefficient inward a fourth dimension when therefore many people convey particular dietary requirements. Eggs, bacon, anchovies, parmesan as well as croutons - there's plenty hither to position off vegetarians as well as vegans, the dairy intolerant, gluten intolerant as well as anyone keeping kosher. This version has all the season of the master as well as volition satisfy near all those restrictions (the gluteny croutons stay for now).

Caesar salad simulation
(embellished on a recipe from Vegangela)

tofu bacon
1/2 loving cup tamari
1/2 loving cup maple syrup
2 tablespoons liquid smoke
600g draw solid tofu
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

croutons
small loaf bread
2 large cloves garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil

1 large lettuce

dressing
1/4 loving cup blanched almonds
1/4 loving cup vegan mayonnaise
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon capers
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
salt as well as pepper

Start yesteryear marinating the tofu bacon. In a large shallow dish or tray, whisk together the tamari, maple syrup as well as liquid fume to cast a marinade. Slice the tofu into 3mm-thick pieces as well as dredge them through the marinade, leaving them to soak upwardly the season for at to the lowest degree an hr (we left them inward the refrigerator overnight).

Next operate on the croutons. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Remove the crust from the breadstuff as well as piece the residue into 1 inch cubes. Mince the garlic. In a medium bowl, stir together the breadstuff cubes, garlic as well as olive oil. Transfer them to a baking tray as well as spread them out. Bake for v minutes, hand 'em a stir, as well as therefore bake them for a farther v minutes or until they're golden as well as crunchy. Leave them aside to cool.

Time to complete off the bacon! Fry the tofu slices inward the vegetable crude oil on medium-high heat, until browned on both sides. Slice the tofu bacon into strips as well as gear upwardly aside.

Wash the lettuce leaves thoroughly, dry out them out, as well as therefore suspension them into large-ish pieces as well as pile them upwardly inward a large serving bowl.

Dressing time. Grind the almonds upwardly inward a nutrient processor. Add the remaining ingredients as well as blend thoroughly. Season to taste, as well as add together a piddling H2O if you'd similar it to move thinner. Pour the dressing over the lettuce leaves as well as toss it through. Add the croutons as well as bacon as well as you're done.