Chicken Caesar Lunch Jar

Yoghurt does the job a raw-egg Caesar dressing usually does, minus the food-safety math of carrying raw egg in a desk-drawer lunch bag for four hours. It’s tangier, slightly thinner, and nobody at the desk next to you is going to notice the swap.

The anchovy paste is the one ingredient people skip and shouldn’t. It doesn’t taste like fish in the finished dressing — it tastes like the thing that makes Caesar dressing taste like Caesar dressing, and leaving it out gets you a passable ranch instead.

Keep the lettuce separate from the dressing until lunchtime. Five minutes of dressed lettuce sitting in a jar at room temperature is fine; four hours is limp lettuce, and limp lettuce is the main reason packed salads have a bad reputation.