Homemade salad dressings - oil substitute?

What is the purpose of olive oil in salad dressings? Can you leave it out or put less in?

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  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    It is satiating and delicious? Plus you need dietary fats. If you left it out you would have infused vinegars.
  • ujjz
    ujjz Posts: 24 Member
    The fat helps you digest fat soluble vitamins.
  • fitnessn00bie
    fitnessn00bie Posts: 20 Member
    My new favourite thing to put on my salads and chicken is mint sauce, as in the kind that usually is served with roast lamb ... sounds very weird but I find it gives a lot of taste for only a small amount! Also doesn't have any oil in it if you are worried about that.