Salad dressing?
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pitbullmamaliz
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What do you all put on top of your salads? I love salad, and have been using just oil and vinegar but sometimes I'd like some variety. I really miss the obscene amounts of sweet & sour I use to gob on. ;-) I know Ranch and Caesar dressings are low carb, but they just make me go "meh." Any other suggestions?
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I like salsa/mild spicy sauce on my salads. My sister always just squeezes lemon juice on hers. Gotta be careful with the salsa tho and make sure it fits your carb numbers.2
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I'm a ranch girl. Or salsa and sour cream. My favorite, though, is olive oil and salt. Is that gross? I don't really like vinegar, and I put salt on everything.
My husband likes different kinds of ranch, like cucumber ranch or jalapeno ranch or whatever. 1 -
bleu cheese dressing...yum...or sometimes just sour cream...2
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White balsamic vinegar has a nice sweet and sour thing going on.
I usually use blue cheese. Cause I love the stuff.1 -
Blue Cheese for me!0
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I watch too much Ina Garten so my go to is usually: fresh lime (or lemon) juice, avocado (or olive) oil, a little Dijon mustard, salt, pepper, fresh garlic. Whisk it.2
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I've always been about the oil & vinegar, but I have a large variety of infused ones.... Some of my faves: Toasted sesame oil with honey ginger white balsamic, Red grapefruit olive oil with black current or raspberry balsamic. I really like avocado and almond oil too. Sometimes I'll add seasonings (like herb & garlic Mrs Dash to the oil first)
I'm always so sad when restaurants bring basic white vinegar & canola oil
@kpk54, that mix sounds delicious!!2 -
My go to is blue cheese. I just ordered several different types from thrive. Hopefully that wasn't a waste of money. It is hard to find good dressings that don't use bad oils (i.e. soybean oil or safflower oil).
Also, I sometimes use the wickles hoagie spread. It is hard to describe, so here is a link to it:
https://wicklespickles.com/product/spicy-red-sandwich-spread/
I know it says it is a sandwich spread, but my salads generally have meat and/or egg with greens and some cheese, so it isn't that terribly different from a sandwich without the bread.1 -
Bragg makes a whole line of dressings with their apple cider vinegar.
I also liked Primal Kitchen2 -
I watch too much Ina Garten so my go to is usually: fresh lime (or lemon) juice, avocado (or olive) oil, a little Dijon mustard, salt, pepper, fresh garlic. Whisk it.
Yup, that's my basic 'good to go' recipe too.
The 'secret' of a good dressing is three parts oil to one part 'acidic'. and season well.3 -
I like paleo mayo on some salads, I am an oil and vinegar gal mostly though. I do enjoy Marie's blue cheese.
I have a variety of vinegars, ACV, balsamic (have to watch the carbs on that one), champage, red wine, etc. If the salad has tomato, I often just splash a dash of vinegar on it.
I do add rice vinegar to sesame oil if I want an Asian flavor profile as well.1 -
Thank you all so much for the ideas! Really wish I liked blue cheese, but BLEH! LOL But lots of other things to try out, so thank you!0
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Pinterest had LC dressings using toasted sesame oil (straight or cut with olive oil) and a salt source as the base.
Variations included mustard seeds (let soak for a while), vinegar, and peppers.
They were all yummy!
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If you like avocado, this recipe is simple and very tasty
http://www.simplyscratch.com/2014/04/creamy-avocado-salad-dressing.html2 -
olive oil, lemon juice, dijon and salt & pepper.
or just olive oil with balsamic vinegar if I'm too lazy to juice the lemon1
