Salad with anchovies

The classic caesar salad is one of the best salads you will ever try. This recipe uses homemade dressing and parmesan croutons.

This anchovy salad with tomatoes and black olives is a great lunch treat for a hot summer day! You should try this combo, flavor explosion!

Though this is a very simple salad, it is exquisite when attention is paid to every little detail. Packaged organic romaine hearts are available at most supermarkets, but using the hearts of whole romaine heads or whole baby romaine will make for a fresher version. Save the plucked outer leaves for a chopped salad or other cooking.

This salad is a zesty first course or a fine lunch. A range of sharp flavors — garlic, anchovy, lemon and briny olives — contrast beautifully with the anise-scented fennel bulb. Dress the salad just before serving, so the sliced fennel stays crisp. It may seem silly to smash and pit your own green olives, but they look better and taste meatier that way. In any case, please don’t cut pitted olives crosswise into little slices.

The best Caesar salad recipe ever, adapted from iconic San Francisco restaurant Zuni Café. This Caesar salad recipe is the real deal and so good thanks to fresh anchovies, homemade torn croutons (it's easy!), crisp lettuce and lots of cheese.

Of all the various vinaigrettes and dressings in this book, this is probably the one my husband, Joe, and I make the most. It’s Caesar-ish, thanks to garlic and anchovy, while lots of lemon juice makes it bright and bracing. Dijon gives it a bit of creaminess without actual cream or cheese, and it comes together in a mortar and pestle, which gives it a rustic, extra-homemade quality. We’re anchovy enthusiasts, and if I had a soapbox to stand on to profess my zeal for the tiny fish, I would…

The deeply savory flavor that anchovies add to salad dressings, sauces, and pasta dishes is incomparable. Find the best easy anchovy recipes here.

One way to subvert the usual lettuce narrative is to do something wholly unexpected with it, as in the baked lettuce and onion tart we shared with you yesterday. Another way is to expand the idea of lettuce itself — as in this crisp, bitter chicory salad from the bright minds behind Bar Tartine in San Francisco. Chicories are bitter greens with a more assertive bite than sweet and tender garden greens, but that bitterness means they stand up well to a strong dressing.

This Provençal Chickpea Salad is traditionally made for Palm Sunday – the Sunday before Easter. It’s quick and simple, budget-friendly, made with pantry staples, and oozes salty flavors with …