Healthy Salad Dressings?

karendee4

Thanks asciar1! It sounds delish!!!
Karen

BarbieAS

I have a couple of go-tos, depending on what kind of salad I'm having. I never use bottled dressing anymore unless I really want ranch or blue cheese (once in a blue moon).

Make as much or as little as you want of these, and adjust the seasonings and ratios to fit your tastes/goals! I like my dressings a little more acid-y.

1) 2 parts lemon juice, 1 part dijon mustard, 1 part olive oil, salt and pepper. Great with fish and grilled chicken over greens.
2) 1 part olive oil, 2-3 parts good (and I mean GOOD - get the 25 year aged stuff if you can. Completely worth it) balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Great with steak or chicken, blue or goat cheese, and apples/pears and nuts, all kinds of stuff.
3) 1 part olive oil, 2-3 parts red wine vinegar, salt and pepper, garlic powder, dried oregano and parsely (or "italian seasoning" works too). Standard Italian-style dressing.

I also love mixing Frank's Red Hot wing sauce with a tiny bit of either ranch or blue cheese and having that with grilled chicken over salad greens - almost, but not quite, like eating real buffalo wings and stretches the dressing calories quite a bit.