8 Recipes

Caesar Salad Dressing

Homemade Caesar dressing — Caesar Pasta Salad, Steakhouse Caesar Dressing, Vegan Caesar Pasta, and a classic Caesar Salad for a fast weeknight dinner.

Contributors
Kayla Menkes
Tianna Long
Brandon Wolk
+5

Caesar Pasta Salad

Caesar Pasta Salad

Sooooo gooood!!!

15 min370 cal12 g proteinServes 10197 saves
Kayla MenkesKayla Menkes

Ingredients

  • SALAD INGREDIENTS
  • 2 heads Romaine lettuce
  • 1-2 Cups Baby spinach
  • 1 box Bow tie pasta
  • 8oz Shredded Parmesan Cheese
  • 1-2 cups Croutons
  • As needed Caesar Dressing -homemade or store bought
  • DRESSING INGREDIENTS
  • 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
  • 1/2 cup Sour cream (Or Plain Greek Yogurt)
  • 2-3 tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • To taste Salt
  • To taste Pepper
  • 2-3 Garlic Cloves

Instructions

  1. 1Start to boil water to cook your bow tie pasta.
  2. 2If you are planning to serve right away, next make your Caesar dressing by combining the ingredients above. Finely chop your garlic cloves, but you can also substitute with garlic powder. Set aside in the refrigerator.
  3. 3While your pasta is cooking, roughly chop your romaine lettuce and baby spinach.
  4. 4After your pasta is cooked, make sure to let the pasta cook for several minutes before combining ingredients.
  5. 5Next combine your Parmesan cheese, lettuces, and pasta.
  6. 6Next stir in your Caesar dressing and croutons. If you don’t plan to serve immediately wait to add your croutons and dressing right before serving to avoid your croutons getting soggy.
  7. 7Enjoy!

P.S. We update the recipes on this page every few days. If you want to cook this recipe over and over again, we'd love it if you downloaded Pepper 🤝.

Pepper

More to try

The Best Caesar Salad Dressinglunch

The Best Caesar Salad Dressing

580 cal5 min34 saves
Tianna LongTianna Long
Caesar Saladlunch

Caesar Salad

580 cal30 min28 saves
Brandon WolkBrandon Wolk
Yuzu Miso Caesar Saladlunch

Yuzu Miso Caesar Salad

580 cal15 min26 saves
Alessandra CiuffoAlessandra Ciuffo
Vegan Caesar Pastalunch

Vegan Caesar Pasta

620 cal45 min57 saves
Stephanie FeidlerStephanie Feidler
Caesar Dressingsauce

Caesar Dressing

385 cal10 min51 saves
Sarah Jane KSarah Jane K
Steakhouse Caesar Dressingappetizer

Steakhouse Caesar Dressing

385 cal5 min9 saves
Monique LangevinMonique Langevin
Homemade Caesar Dressingsauce

Homemade Caesar Dressing

290 cal10 min7 saves
MC
Morgan Carroll

Find more recipes like this

Join 1M+ cooks discovering, organizing, and sharing their recipes on Pepper

Open in Pepper →

Caesar Dressing Worth Making From Scratch

A good Caesar dressing turns a head of romaine into supper. Once you've whisked together garlic, lemon, and anchovy yourself, the bottled stuff never quite tastes right again.

Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on nights when there's chicken to slice over greens, or when a big bowl of Caesar Pasta Salad is the whole meal and nobody's complaining.

Every recipe here is either the dressing or something to put it on: The Best Caesar Salad Dressing with egg and olive oil, a quick Caesar Dressing built on mayonnaise and Dijon, Steakhouse Caesar Dressing, Homemade Caesar Dressing with oil-packed anchovies, plus Yuzu Miso Caesar Salad and a cashew-based Vegan Caesar Pasta.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Mash the garlic first

    Smash one large clove with a pinch of kosher salt into a paste before anything else goes in, so you don't bite into raw garlic chunks.

  2. 2

    Melt the anchovies

    Mince 3 to 4 oil-packed fillets and mash them with the garlic until they disappear; the dressing tastes savory, not fishy.

  3. 3

    Add the oil slowly

    Whisk in the cup of olive oil a few drops at a time at the start, then in a thin stream, or the dressing will break.

  4. 4

    Dress the lettuce cold

    Chill the romaine 20 minutes and dry it well; wet leaves thin the dressing and it slides right off.

Browse More Recipes

Never lose a recipe again

Save everything. Stay organized. Share with friends.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play
Pepper