Asa’s Caesar-Style Salad

Name: Asa’s Caesar-Style Salad
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce; 2 tablespoons tahini; ½ teaspoon liquid sweetener of choice; 1 clove garlic; Handful of rocket/arugula or baby spinach; 50 ml/1¾ fl oz/scant ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil; 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar; 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard; 1 spring onion/scallion; 2 tablespoons (drained) capers; Handful of rocket/arugula or baby spinach; Handful of rocket/arugula or baby spinach; 1 romaine lettuce; ½ iceberg lettuce; 1 spring onion/scallion; Pinch of sea salt; 50 g/1¾ oz/⅓ cup sunflower seeds; 1 teaspoon B12-enriched nutritional yeast

Preparation info

Serves:
4
generously

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

We Cook Plants

By Sarah Bentley

Published 2025

About

“I’ve been making this salad at wellbeing retreats for years and it always gets compliments. The crispness of the lettuce with the creamy sauce and crouton sprinkles is yummy. You could add larger croutons made from sourdough bread or maple coconut bacon or tempeh.”

Ingredients

For the Salad

1 romaine lettuce
½ iceberg lettuce
1 spring onion/scallion

Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Let’s prep the ingredients.

– Slice the two types of lettuce into your preferred shape.

– Thinly slice the whole spring onion/scallion.

– Chop the capers.

– Mince the garlic for the crouton sprinkles.
Add all the salad vegetables to a bowl and mix them together. Add the capers last by sprinkling them on top, otherwise th