3 Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes You Should Try at Home !

For a salad to be delicious, It has to have a nice mix of textures, flavors, and really good dressing. Salad dressings are easy to make at home and it will save your money because a bottle salad dressing is outrageous. You can completely customize your dressing with your favorite ingredients. To make salad dressing, the main ingredients needed are:

• Sweet ingredient such as maple syrup, honey, and sugar. A touch of sweetness might help to unify the tastes and round out the dressing.

• Some fat. Most vinaigrette-style sauces have oil as a main ingredient. You want a mildly flavored oil that won't stand out in the dressing such as evo, avocado oil, sesame oil, and walnut oil.

• Something acidic such as lime juice, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, white wine vinegar are all good options.

• Herbs and spices such as pepper, salt, and garlic will enhance the flavor of the other ingredients.

What is the shelf life of homemade salad dressings?

Use up the dairy-based dressings within a week. In an airtight container, the vinaigrettes can last up to two weeks in the fridge.

LEMON VINAIGRETTE

Like most homemade dressings, this recipe is seemingly easy. It doesn't take much time. Your pantry may contain all of these easy ingredients.

- Lemon juice

- Red wine vinegar

- Dijon mustard

- EVO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)

- A clove of garlic

- Salt and Pepper

- Freshly minced oregano

- Maple syrup

MANDARIN ORANGE DRESSING

Citrus fruits are a great way to lighten salads. Dressing has a wonderful concentrated fruit flavor that adds sweetness and thickening to the dressing.

- 1 tablespoon orange jam

- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

- 1 tablespoon EVO

- 1 teaspoon mustard

- Salt & Pepper

CREAMY AVOCADO VINAIGRETTE

The avocado in this dressing is very silky creamy. Avocado is rich in healthy fats, fiber and vitamin K. Avocado meat also helps the body absorb two important antioxidants, lycopene and beta-carotene. Healthy fats in both avocado and olive oil help the digestive tract absorb nutrients, reduce inflammation and reduce the risk of heart disease

- 1 avocado

- White wine vinegar

- Lemon juice

- Salt and pepper

- 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil