Homemade Salad Dressing

Making homemade salad dressing is healthy, economic and super easy to do!

Stop throwing away money on store bought filled with chemicals and weird ingredients.

It only takes a couple of minutes to swish together vinaigrette or a creamy dressing.

It is easy and fun to use a Mini Food Processor, in this way you don’t even have to chop the herbs!

Get a few pretty bottles as well as screw top jars for mixing and storing.

Great idea!

Homemade dressing in a nice bottle together with a card with the salad dressing recipe makes a lovely hostess gift as well.

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What You Need:

Here are the basic ingredients that are good to have at hand for making your own gourmet dressing:

Extra virgin olive oil
Vinegars: Red wine, white wine and balsamic
Lemons
Salt and pepper
Dijon mustard
Mayonnaise
Buttermilk, sour cream or yoghurt
Herbs, fresh or dried
Garlic and onion, fresh or dried
Spices: Curry, cayenne
Soy sauce, vegetarian Worcester sauce
Ketchup
Honey or sugar
Pickles

Stock up on the best quality you can afford. Olive oil, vinegars, mustard, lemon, honey, spices and dried herbs last for a long time so it is worth getting great quality.

Homemade dressing lasts for up to a week in the fridge, so only make as much as you need for 5 days at a time.

How to Make a Salad Dressing:

A salad dressing generally needs as a base 2/3 oil and 1/3 lemon or vinegar. Then spices and herbs are added for a vinaigrette.

Honey, maple syrup or sugar may be added to “round off” the acidity of the vinegar or lemons.

Mustard can be added for making the vinaigrette thicker, and mayonnaise, buttermilk, sour cream or yogurt for making creamy dressing recipes and dips.

Start with the following popular recipes, and continue to improvise your own!