If you’re going to grill your main meal, grill your sides, like our Grilled Caesar Salad with homemade grilled croutons.

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This time of year, we barbecue every weekend. And if you’ve been at our house or just peeked at our Instagram lately, you’ve seen that. When it’s nice out, we just love spending as much time as possible outdoors. Plus, grilling means not turning your oven on and heating your home (which is also important this time of year).

I always say when you’re grilling, you should grill your side dishes too. If you’re trying to make your meat on the grill but your potatoes in the oven, you have to run back and forth between the grill and the oven.

And while that’s good for your fitness tracker, it’s not good for your food. You run the risk of forgetting to check on one and burning something.

You can basically grill everything — even salad. Yes. Salad. We actually love grilled Caesar salad. It’s a fun twist on a traditional Caesar salad. We make homemade grilled croutons with it too because if you’re gonna go out, you might as well go all out.

Lettuce isn’t the only vegetable you can grill. For more ideas, check out all of our Vegetarian Grilling Recipes.

Grilled Caesar Salad (with homemade grilled croutons) Recipe

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The measurements below are a little approximated because we use the FinaMill spice grinder (more about it, plus a way to save on it, below) to grind fresh spices in this recipe. It doesn’t have a real way to measure the spices, so you’re gonna have to measure with your heart (or approximate).

Fresh ground spices add more flavor than packed spices do, so if you aren’t grinding your own spices like we do, you’ll want to add a little more seasoning to compensate for that.

Grilled Caesar Salad (with homemade grilled croutons) Ingredients:

• 2 slices wheat bread
• 1 teaspoon, plus 2 teaspoons, olive oil
• 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground toasted garlic
• 1/4 teaspoon, plus 3/4 teaspoon, freshly ground salt
• 1/4 teaspoon, plus 3/4 teaspoon, freshly ground pepper
• 2 romaine lettuce hearts
• 4 tablespoons fresh shaved Parmesan cheese
• 4 tablespoons Caesar dressing

How To Make Grilled Caesar Salad (with homemade grilled croutons):

Heat a gas grill to medium heat.

Cut the wheat bread into small cubes. Put them in a grill-safe pan.

Drizzle them with one tablespoon of olive oil.

Using the FinaMill spice grinder, grind the fresh toasted garlic, salt, and pepper onto the bread. Toss them with a bamboo spoon.

Cook them on the grill, tossing occasionally, until they’re crisp. This should take about 10 minutes. Set them aside.

Cut the romaine lettuce in half, leaving the core in tact.

Brush the remaining two tablespoons of olive oil across the cut side of the lettuce halves with a pastry brush.

Using the FinaMill spice grinder, grind the remaining salt and pepper evenly across the four Romaine lettuce halves.

Put the Romaine lettuce, cut side down, on the grill. Close it and grill for three minutes.

Remove the lettuce from the grill.

Top with the homemade grilled croutons.

Top with the freshly shaved Parmesan cheese.

Then, drizzle the Caesar dressing on top.

FinaMill Spice Grinder Review:

We love our FinaMill spice grinder. We’ve had it since the fall and actually used it in our Bacon And Cheese Egg Bites recipe. It’s so easy to use to add spices to your recipes. We have ours on the counter at all times and use it on a regular basis.

For recipes, like ones on the grill, where your hands are occupied between opening and closing the grill, moving food between direct and indirect heat, and trying to time different foods so everything is ready on time, the FinaMill comes in handy. You just grab it, pop a spice-filled pod on and off with the tiniest bit of pressure, and put a new one on with that same minimal amount of effort.

Then, push the button at the top of the FinaMill to freshly grind your spices.

At the bottom of the FinaMill, there’s a dial to change the grind from fine to coarse, so keep that in mind, especially when you’re grinding the peppercorns for this recipe. In this case, fine is better. No one wants to chew huge chunks of pepper with their salad.

And trust us, the FinaMill spice grinder is worth every penny.

Grilled Caesar Salad: Frequently Asked Questions

What To Serve With Grilled Caesar Salad:

Grilled Caesar Salad goes great with anything you’re making on the grill, but our favorite recipes to serve it with are:

• Grilled Shrimp Kabobs
• Grilled Ground Sausage Burgers
• Yakitori (Grilled Chicken Skewers)

Have you tried this Grilled Caesar Salad recipe yet? Let us know what you thought in the comments.