Dijon Vinaigrette
Are you new to making your own dressing? If you have never made your own dressings, you’ll be amazed at how quickly a salad dressing can come together. Plus, you have the knowledge of what goes into your food. And it tastes way better!
Have you looked at the back of your salad dressing bottles? There are numerous ingredients, fillers, and things that really don’t need to be in dressings. Oh, I guess maybe they are “needed” if they are going to sit on a store shelf or in someone’s pantry for years and years. And if you buy a fat-free dressing, high fructose corn syrup is often added to give the dressing more flavor. When something is taken away, often something needs to replace it, and usually that replacement isn’t a healthier option.
Are you looking for a dressing to give your salads a little zip? I love finding new-to-me flavor combinations. This zingy Dijon Vinaigrette recipe is one that we’ve recently added to our culinary arsenal.
This recipe is adapted from The Chew. Pictures updated 9/14.
The Verdict: I have doubled the original recipe since I am going through the motions of making the dressing anyway, and it’s nice to have the dressing conveniently on hand. In this recipe I increased the amount of olive oil to dilute the bite the dressing had because it was so strong to begin (in my opinion). I love the bite!
Dijon Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar we like it with "the mother" for good gut health
- 1/4 cup organic extra virgin olive oil we get ours at Costco
- 3 teaspoons Dijon Mustard
- 2 T shallots chopped (onions also work)
- 2 T honey
- Himalayan Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
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Place all ingredients in a blender, and blend.
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Enjoy on your favorite salads, refrigerating leftovers for up to a week.
Have you made your own Lemony Vinaigrette?
Yumm! Will have to try this for my weekly salads, thanks!
Hi Kelsey. I hope you enjoy it like we do!
I make this minus the HONEY and instead of olive oil I use flax seed oil 🙂
I never thought of using flax seed oil. Great idea! Thanks for stopping by and sharing!
I love homemade dressing! It does come together quite easily. And that is important when you make a lot of food from scratch! I would love for you to share this at what i am eating http://www.townsend-house.com/2013/05/what-i-am-eating.html
Sounds delicious. Visiting from Homestead Barn Hop.
Thanks, Sonja! This sounds yummy. Our current favorite sweet and tangy dressing is: 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/4 cup oil of choice, 1/4 cup honey or sweetener of choice, 1/4 tsp. pepper, and 1/4 tsp. garlic powder. It’s easy to remember the amounts! I often switch the honey for FruitSweet, a fruit concentrate made by Wax Orchards over on Vashon Island, and that’s delicious too.
Hi Piper!! Your dressing sounds awesome, too! I’ll have to try it. It have never heard of FruitSweet. It sounds interesting.
It’s great stuff! A wonderful healthy substitute for corn syrup in recipes. Wax Orchards also makes our favorite chocolate fudge sauce that’s just unsweetened pineapple and pear juice concentrate, and Dutch cocoa. It’s such a treat when you aren’t eating sugar!