Healthy salad dressing suggestions?

lobb4202
lobb4202 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

hello! Looking for tasty and healthy salad dressing suggestions. I’ve normally used light ranch but know I need to get something healthier than that. Thanks!

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  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,163 Member

    I usually mix olive oil, any kind of vinegar, and just a little sugar.

  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,344 Member

    If you like it, it works within your calories, and it helps you eat and enjoy your vegetables, then why do you need to change it?

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,725 Member

    Just my preference. I put cottage cheese and seasoning in the blender. I like it ranch flavors, just plain dill (I love dill in everything), garlic and/or onion, and plain. I hear rumors that other people use yogurt the same way.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,643 Member

    Make a home made ranch, it's easy, just mix the ingredients or shake the jar and a no brainer really. You get to adjust it to your tastes, a winner winner. It might even inspire you to try other dressings.

  • GLC1962
    GLC1962 Posts: 2 Member

    I like to use brined artichoke heart, olives, brined cactus leaves, pickled jalapenos and other pickled vegetables I can get my hands on to supplement my salads to keep any dressing down to 1 tbsp. It lets me choose different dessings but keeps cals down.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,366 Member

    I'm very DIY with dressings because (1) it's easy, and (2) I live alone and get bored way, way before a whole flippin' bottle of commercial dressing is gone.

    The bad news is that I don't have recipes, because I don't use recipes for dressings or much of anything else. I just make stuff.

    For dressings, the base is usually some type of good vinegar, or plain nonfat Greek yogurt, but occasionally it might be tahini or something like that. To that, I'd add seasoning/spices/herbs of choice. Could add fruit or fruit juice, too or instead. With vinegar dressings, I often don't add oil, but instead put some healthy fats in the salad by including seeds or nuts, with roasted hull-less pumpkin seeds (pepitas) being a personal favorite. If I do add oil to the dressing, EVOO is of course good, but walnut oil is nice if I have some around, and a bit of toasted sesame oil is also good if a person likes it.

    Experimenting is fun. I figure since I'm only making enough for one salad, the risk of failure is pretty low. At worst it's one sub-par salad experience, or the cost of one serving's worth of ingredients if I made something so vile I didn't want to eat it (I don't remember that latter thing ever happening . . . 😆).

  • fnnn7cypcp
    fnnn7cypcp Posts: 1 Member

    2 parts good olive oil

    1 part fresh lemon juice

    Good amount of cumin

    Salt and pepper.
    goes nicely with roasted chickpea, or avocado salads.

  • jabs105
    jabs105 Posts: 1 Member

    I like to make anything vinegar/oil based. Just search on Pinterest for vinaigrette salad dressings.

  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,198 Member

    Here’s a good ranch recipe

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ranch-dressing-recipe_n_3769342/amp

  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,198 Member

    Some other suggestions for alternatives to vinaigrette which is typically 3 parts olive oil to one part lemon juice or vinegar.

    A lower fat vaguely asian dressing I like is 1 part each of hazelnut oil, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar.

    Other traditional lower fat dressings to google are Vietnamese nuoc cham which contains no oil at all, and a Japanese salad dressing that gets it’s creamy texture from blitzed silken tofu.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,956 Member

    Just call me a weirdo who doesn't use any dressing at all, I prefer to taste the salad ingredients instead of have them covered up by a dressing. My wife, OTOH, adds so much dressing that her entire salad is nothing more than ranch-flavored with different textures from one bite to the next.

    If I want more flavor, I include more flavorful ingredients, whether onions, diced red pepper, salted sunflower seeds, my favorite cheese, etc.

  • wishingiwasfishing5037
    wishingiwasfishing5037 Posts: 25 Member

    I use 1 tablespoon evoo and 2 tablespoons of balsamic or red wine vinegar, pickle brine or citrus juice. I add Italian spices, chipotle sauce, or hot sauce. It works for me and I get my “good” fat for the day.

  • lindajaime84
    lindajaime84 Posts: 2 Member

    some olive oil

    Fresh crush garlic

    Red wine vinegar

    Salt and pepper

    Fresh 1/2 squeeze lemon or one

    Oregano

    All of these to your taste

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