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Lettuce

Swap out the typical romaine lettuce for another variety.

What to serve with Caesar salad

To turn your keto salad into a complete meal, you can serve with cheesy keto garlic bread, almond flour bread,coconut flour bread or keto breadsticks made from mozzarella dough.

Recipe tips

How to make keto Caesar salad fast.

Making a keto Caesar salad at home is my go-to meal when we are in a hurry.

Ready-made dressings often contain unhealthy oils such as canola oil or sunflower oil and often contain added sugars and starches that don’t fir in with your keto diet.

Any other salad ingredients you need to use up can be added next such as baby tomatoes, spring onions, or cucumber cubes.

Cheese

A classic keto Ceasar salad has parmesan cheese, but if you aren’t a fan, you can swap it up. However, this is a high-protein salad with moderate-high fat and low-carbs, so the ingredients will be slightly different.

I was also immature and didn’t know why I wasn’t okay with that, just that it sounded gross.

I’m still not a fan of canned fish (which is unfortunate since my whole family loves sardines), but I’m totally fine with them in my salad dressing if I can’t really taste them.

For example, Bertucci’s Caesar salad has 28g carbs (source: Cronometer). That's just over 33 grams of fat per serving. It is therefore always worth making your own dressing instead of buying a ready-made one. I will use mixed greens if that’s what I have available too.

Caesar Salad

1. Place a skillet or griddle on the stove over medium heat.

   Once you add the anchovies and mayo, you won’t be able to keep it in the fridge for long. Very unnecessary.

   So I make all of our dressings and they actually taste better than anything from the store or restaurants. This is completely optional.

   Anchovies – you may omit these but they really do add the authentic Caesar salty taste to the salad.

   Dressing – as you’ll see below, I take the standard keto Caesar dressing and make it my own!

   Process on high until the garlic is minced down and the mixture is smooth. I cannot emphasise enough how incredibly easy and nutritious it is to make your own mayonnaise.

   Substitutions & variations

   One thing that’s fun about a keto Caesar salad is that you don’t have to stick with the standard ingredients.

How many carbs are in a Caesar salad will depend on what ingredients have been used, how many croutons have been added, and whether it is served with bread on the side? Adaptable recipes are the best and most likely to be actually made, rather than a prescriptive recipe.

This keto Caesar salad starts with a huge base of leafy greens, I like baby kale, but any leafy green is superb.

Pour into a glass bottle/jar and store in the fridge (up to 2 weeks) until ready to use. As you’ll see below, you can omit or swap many of these to create a salad you are happy with:

All ingredients and quantities are in the recipe card below.

Romaine lettuce – high in water, fibre, minerals, and vitamins like C and K, I love the crunch that romaine lettuce offers.

Cucumber – a standard Caesar salad recipe has croutons (made from wheat bread), which is not keto-friendly.