salad dressing recipes??

NINAjustdoit
NINAjustdoit Posts: 80 Member
edited October 6 in Recipes
I don't like store bought salad dressing, does anyone have any light dressing recipes??

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  • ndswimchick22
    ndswimchick22 Posts: 58 Member
    Skinnytaste.com has a tomato vinnegrette dressing that I love!
  • kelseyhere
    kelseyhere Posts: 1,123 Member
    i just mix a splash of olive oil with about 1 tbsp. of balsalmic or red wine vinegar and a couple craks of fresh ground pepper. it's good and goes on pretty much any salad.
  • re08scue
    re08scue Posts: 71 Member
    i just mix a splash of olive oil with about 1 tbsp. of balsalmic or red wine vinegar and a couple craks of fresh ground pepper. it's good and goes on pretty much any salad.

    This is what I make all the time. Often I'll add some oregano and crushed garlic.

    Or you can just spritz some fresh lemon juice over you salad as well.
  • kaetmarie
    kaetmarie Posts: 668 Member
    I usually use a little drizzle of olive oil and a splash of lemon -- great with good, crumbled cheese :love:
  • vljurin
    vljurin Posts: 1
    I don't care for purchased salad dressing recipes either. However I am addicted to Trader Joe's Pear Gorgonzola - a naturally lite dressing with (I believe) 45 calories.

    You can make any homemade dressing lite by substituting water or fruit juice or vegetable juice in place of 1/2 the oil (if you look at the ingredients on the bottle of lite dressings you will see that this is what most manufacturers do to make their dressings lite). I think the dressings taste better this way - not as oily. And up the vinegar to oil ratio a little to lower the calories even more. Try doing this with any homemade oil & vinegar type dressing (or oil & citrus). Also, try substituting low fat plain yogurt for some of the mayo or sour cream in the creamy homemade dressing recipes.
  • Kaddyshack21
    Kaddyshack21 Posts: 225 Member
    I make my own salad dressing. You can mix up the spices to how you like it but the basic one I make is:

    splash of olive oil
    !/2 lemon squeezed ( or to taste)
    1 cloved crushed garlic
    1 green onion finely chopped
    A little S&P ( if you like)

    MIx all that together then add Kefir until you hit a consistency that you really like.

    Or for a change I make:

    olive oil
    lemon
    garlic
    chili powder
    cumin
    S& P
    MIx all ingredient to taste. Also good on fish when baking/broiling it.
  • jessical30
    jessical30 Posts: 49 Member
    I don't like them either. I found one that is really simple and surprisingly I love it.

    Splash of Olive oil
    Splash of vinegar
    A dab of Garlic ( I buy the Gourmet Garden in the tube)
    a dab of mustard
    S&P

    Wisk all together. I estimate when I make this sorry I don't have the measurements LOL
  • katkins3
    katkins3 Posts: 1,359 Member
    Just google the words healthy salad dressing and you will get more recipes than you can try in a month.
  • katty33msu
    katty33msu Posts: 1
    I love ranch and refuse to cut it out of my diet completely, so I buy the Hidden Valley Ranch packets and make it with light mayo and skim milk.
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