This recipe for chef's salad is based on one developed by Louis Diat, onetime chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel and purported inventor of the dish.
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp. ketchup
- 3 tbsp. red wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- 1 tsp. dry mustard
- 1⁄2 tsp. paprika
- Pinch of white pepper
- 1 egg yolk
- 3⁄4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt, to taste
- 3 lightly packed cups chopped mixed escarole, green leaf lettuce, and iceberg
- 1⁄4 cup julienned smoked ham
- 1⁄4 cup julienned cooked beef tongue
- 1⁄4 cup thinly sliced boiled chicken breast
- Half a hard-cooked egg
- 1 cup lightly packed trimmed watercress
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Instructions
Step 1
Put ketchup, vinegar, sugar, dry mustard, paprika, white pepper, and egg yolk into a bowl; whisk well. Slowly drizzle in olive oil while whisking constantly until smooth. Season with salt to taste; set dressing aside.
Step 2
Spread lettuce mix on a salad plate. Arrange ham, beef tongue, chicken, and egg on top of greens. Tuck watercress into center. Drizzle with some of the dressing. (Reserve remaining dressing for another use.)
- Put ketchup, vinegar, sugar, dry mustard, paprika, white pepper, and egg yolk into a bowl; whisk well. Slowly drizzle in olive oil while whisking constantly until smooth. Season with salt to taste; set dressing aside.
- Spread lettuce mix on a salad plate. Arrange ham, beef tongue, chicken, and egg on top of greens. Tuck watercress into center. Drizzle with some of the dressing. (Reserve remaining dressing for another use.)
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