Quick & Easy Vegan Caesar Salad

February 25, 2013 by Leanne Vogel December 11, 2018

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In keeping with the dairy-free theme last week, we feasted on homemade milk and cheesecake and today is all about the salad. You know, to keep things balanced and all.

The first salad I remember eating (and enjoying) was Caesar salad. Once I discovered it, I ordered it at restaurants, asked my Mom to serve it everyday for dinner, and had the dressing recipe memorized with a stocked bottle of it in the fridge at all times. I was a Caesar fiend.

Then I went dairy-free…

It was a sad day.

So what I’m trying to say here is… I am a Caesar salad Pro. Yes, with a capital “P”. I know what the real thing taste like and THIS, this recipe right here, this tastes as close to the real thing as humanly possible.

Make this recipe and you may just love life a bit more.

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4.9 from 9 reviews

Quick & Easy Vegan Caesar Salad

Author: Leanne Vogel

Recipe type: Vegan, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Sugar-free, Yeast-free, Corn-free, Grain-free, Nut-free, Egg-free

Prep time: 5 mins

Total time: 5 mins

Serves: 4

The real deal... this vegan (and paleo) Caesar salad dressing tastes so much like the real thing. It's creamy, flavorful and downright ridiculous.

Ingredients

1 ripe avocado
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons water
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon caper brine
1 tablespoon capers
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
¼ cup hemp seeds
12 cups chopped romaine leaves

Instructions

Add avocado, lemon juice, water, garlic, brine, capers, mustard salt and pepper to the bowl of your food processor or blender. Blend until smooth. If it needs some thinning out (depending on the size of your avocado) you can add a touch more water. The end result will be the consistency of pudding. Keep it this way to maintain ultra creaminess.
Spoon dressing into a bowl and stir in hemp seeds for that 'Parmesan' feel.
Place romaine in a large salad bowl, drop dressing on top and rotate leaves until fully coated.
Serve immediately!

Notes

The capers really make this dish come to life. I do not recommend supplementing it with anything else.
The hemp seeds are in the recipe to add that Parmesan texture. Feel free to add whatever nut or seed you'd like!

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