Katie’s Favorite Homemade Salad Dressings

Plastic Free July  may be over, but here is a ditch and switch that’s good for YOU and the planet ?.

Making my own salad dressing was literally THE first step on my real food journey. About 12 years ago, I was at a friend’s aunt’s house and she had this super cool salad dressing container that had six different salad dressing recipes on the sides of the container ???. I went out and bought two immediately.

Making your own salad dressing is simple and you only need a handful of ingredients on hand. When I first switched, I used the container and made the full recipe every time. Now, I just make dressing each time I have a salad and it takes less than 2 minutes. But this dressing container was CRUCIAL in my switch, because the key is that it needs to be EASY in the beginning. Salad dressings contain a whole bunch of crappy ingredients, usually canola oil and other vegetable oils, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and so many other junky ingredients. This is an easy place to start when switching to real food.

And since most dressing containers are made from plastic, it’s pretty easy to see why this is good for the planet ?.

Do you make your own dressings? What’s your favorite kind?

Balsamic Dressing

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Dressing
Cuisine Italian

Ingredients
  

  • 3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tbsp Gluten-Free Dijon mustard
  • 5 tbsp  extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh basil
  • Pinch of minced garlic or granulated garlic
  • sea salt to taste
  • ground pepper to taste

Instructions
 

Keyword balsamic dressing, salad dressing

Apple Cider Italian Dressing

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Dressing
Cuisine American, Italian

Ingredients
  

  • 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp Italian Spice Blend  Simply Organic is my preferred brand

Instructions
 

Keyword apple cider vinegar dressing, salad dressing

Mustard Vinaigrette

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Dressing
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 3 tbsp raspberry balsamic vinegar
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin Olive Oil
  • 3 tbsp Gluten-Free mustard
  • sea salt to taste
  • fresh ground pepper to taste

Instructions
 

Keyword mustard vinaigrette dressing, salad dressing

Sesame Ginger Dressing

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Dressing
Cuisine Asian

Ingredients
  

  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp coconut aminos
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ tsp sesame oil not toasted sesame oil
  • 1 tsp sesame seeds
  • 2 tsp fresh grated ginger

Instructions
 

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Lemon Garlic Dressing

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Dressing
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 2 lemons juiced
  • 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 tsp garlic sea salt
  • 1 tsp lemon pepper Simply Organic is the best

Instructions
 

Keyword lemon garlic dressing, salad dressing

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