Creamy Caesar

Tomato Tonnato with Caper and Bacon Pangrattato

A Tasty Treat from Matt Preston

Ingredients

Matt Preston, one of Australia’s leading food journalists and TV personalities, has developed a delicious recipe using our Creamy Caesar Dressing. Matt is a passionate advocate for food security and food rescue.

Stale bread – one of our most wasted food purchases in the home – is the hero in this bright salad that is popping with flavour and bursting with contrasting textures.

Plus using Paul Newman’s Own® Creamy Caesar dressing makes for the easiest tuna mayo you’ll ever make.

½ cup Paul Newman’s Own Creamy Caesar Salad Dressing
190 g tinned tuna in spring water (two small cans, drained)
250 g smallest tomatoes, quartered (I used tiny Tomberry tomatoes from Grovedale in Victoria, so
i didn’t need to cut them, but cherry tomatoes or Perino would do just as well)

FOR THE CAPER PANGRATTATO

Olive oil
4 rashers or bacon or prosciutto, diced small. (i.e., size of the capers)
1 cup bread pieces. Tear up the stale bread into small pieces.
¼ cup of small capers (drained and patted dry)

GARNISH

Chives and lemon zest to garnish.
Optional garnish: fillets of baby sardines or Italian-style tuna slices.

SERVING SUGGESTION

Serve with a crisp green salad and small boiled potatoes like chats, if you want to bulk up the salad to a main meal.

Method

Pound the drained tuna in a mortar and pestle until smooth. Fold in the Paul Newman’s Own® Creamy Caesar. You can mash the tuna with the back of spoon if you don’t have a mortar and pestle.

Fry the bacon dice until crispy. Remove with spoon, leaving the rendered fat in the pan. Add a good glug of olive oil and heat to sizzling. Add the pieces of bread and toast. Toss to ensure all sides of the bread get kissed by the heat.

When the bread is crispy and golden in places add the capers and fry for a couple more minutes. Add the bacon. Toss and remove from the heat while you plate.

Arrange the tonnato (creamy Caesar tuna) on the base of the plate. Top with the tomatoes. Spoon over a generous smattering of caper pangrattato. Garnish with snipped chives and freshly grated lemon zest.ash the tuna with the back of spoon if you don’t have a mortar and pestle.

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What’s rich and creamy all over? Paul Newman’s Own Creamy Caesar dressing is one of the tastiest answers to all your salad cravings. Experience the delectable flavours of garlic with a hint of lemon citrus, combined to create a creamy twist on the traditional taste you know and love with no artificial preservatives or flavours. […]