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Vegan Caesar Salad
28 min
Salad
Servings
Total
28 minPrep
18 minCook
10 minContains
soy
tree nut
Swap out
gluten
Free from
peanut
sesame
Ingredients
Vegan Caesar dressing
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½ cup (65 g)raw cashews, soaked overnight, drained†
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⅓ cup (80 mL)water
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1lemon, zested, juiced
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3cloves garlic
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1 Tbsp (15 mL)extra virgin olive oil
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2 tsp (6 g)capers
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1 tsp (5 mL)dijon mustard
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⅛ tspground black pepper
Vegan Parmesan
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¼ cup (32 g)raw cashews
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⅛ tspsalt
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⅛ tspgarlic powder
Salad base
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4mini romaine lettuce heads, pre-washed, thoroughly dried
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2 Tbsp (30 mL)olive oil
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Optional garnishes
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lemon slice
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chili flakes
Make your own
Directions
- To a blender, add all of the dressing ingredients. Blend until smooth. Set aside.
- Add the vegan parmesan ingredients to a small food processor and blend into a coarse sand. Alternatively, mince the cashews with a knife and mix the ingredients together in a bowl.
- Preheat a griddle pan on high heat. Cut the romaine lettuce heads in half lengthwise*. Lightly brush olive oil over the cut sides. Place the heads cut-side down on the pan for 10 - 15 seconds, or until there are light grill marks on the lettuce, then remove from the heat.
- To assemble, place the lettuce heads grilled-side up on a platter. Drizzle over some dressing, and add a sprinkle of croutons and vegan parmesan. Serve the remaining dressing, croutons, and parmesan on the side. Enjoy!
Notes
- †If the cashews are unsoaked, cover with boiling water and let sit for at least 15 minutes.
- * The lettuce heads must be completely dry when grilling! Any water droplets will cause the lettuce to steam rather than sear, resulting in wilted lettuce.
Storage
- The salad is best enjoyed immediately.
- The dressing will keep in the fridge for up to 4 days.
- The vegan parmesan will keep in the fridge for up to 1 week.
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Discussion & Rating
I have this recipe on repeat (the version with chopped lettuce), literally can’t stop making it! One suggestion from me would be to swap step 1 and 2 for those who use the same blender for both the dressing and the cheese. Starting with the dry one saves a lot of time and dish washing. Also when I made the recipe for a first time, I used 3 garlic cloves (small ones) as suggested and it was an absolute garlic overkill. Be careful in case you want to avoid a strong and long lasting garlic breath 😜. One clove is more than enough in my option.
Again a winner of a recipe. And it is much healthy hand the original version. I'm loving the use of various flavours to make it a good vegan option.
Delicious salad!
Soooo good
Exquisite recipe! The flavours go so well together. I did switch things up a bit by adding roasted chickpeas (seasoned with garlic, onion and paprika powder) and by chopping up the romaine lettuce. The 'parmesan' is sooo tasty :) I will definitely make this recipe again.
A very good salad with a very good dressing that will make me smile all summer :) Although it did not remind me of a caesar salad, it was easy, tasty, healthy... What's not to love?
This was sooo good. The sauce is amazing :)
If anyone told me a year ago, that a salad would make it to my personal top 5 dishes I wouldn't have believed it. But here we are. There are very few dishes I would prefer to eat over this salad, if any. Truely feels almost like a hidden gem of this site. And we only made it because we searched at the last minute for something quick to make on a long and tiring monday evening. Now we have made it a couple of times and love it more each time.
Incredible flavor and so easy to whip up in a blender. I added cucumber, avocado, and chickpeas to make our salad a very filling meal. I’ll definitely be adding this one to our weeknight recipes :)
Great idea l, now we always finish the salad because everyone has their own.
Great recipe! Thank you so much!
Such an easy and flavourful recipe! Made it for a dinner party and everyone enjoyed it ❤️❤️
We loved this salad! This definitely took me some time to do all of the different parts, but it was well worth it! The dressing is so delicious and it all felt really healthy. Usually a Caesar salad is super unhealthy, but I felt good about eating every element of this salad (especially because we used gluten free bread for the croutons, which still turned out fantastic).
This post has changed my life (and I never overexagerate...)! I didn't really follow the full salad recipe but I now regularly make this incredible salad dressing and I always have a jar of the vegan parmesan in the fridge. I am still amazed at how it makes everything better! Thank you so much
So going into making the dressing, I didn't really get the combination of ingredients and how it would taste like a ceaesar dressing at the end. It doesn't taste like a ceaser dressing.....its more tangy and way better than a ceaser dressing! I would definitely make this dressing for diffrent type of salad again!!!
Just had this salad for lunch. So simple yet so delicious. It’s a keeper!
Cool idea with the roasted salad and very tasty! But if you press your lemon with a citrus press you will get to much juice and the dressing is too sour. Next i will try the vegan feta salad :-)