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Spanish Caesar Salad à la Espitas with a variation

I've never been a big fan of green salad, until I tried this fantastic one many years ago in a spanish/mexican restaurant in Dresden. It came in a tortilla-bowl. Of course I could just guess what they put in, but the result came pretty close. I varied it alot, made it simpler or more fancy, but for Sophie I made almost the classic, which always looks amazing.

While boiling an egg prepare the base. Make a nice green salad, with lettuce (or maché), cucumber, tomato, peppers. Add a nice Caesar salad or simple garlic dressing and some croutons (I bought a ready made set for Caesar salad. It's the perfect amount for two, and the real Parmesan fits perfectly in, too!). Finally fry a few slices of bacon (mhhh..), slice the hard boiled egg and decorate the salad with both nicely.

As a variation you can simply fry bacon cubes and add it to the base, or if you like the taste as much as me, just do the cubes and the slices ;). And if you don't have an egg or the time, just leave it out too; dressing and bacon are the secret ingredients, which make this salad unforgettable.

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