Spinoff - Salad Dressing Recipes

[Anonymous]

I love salads but I can never seem to make good homemade dressings. I'd much prefer making them to using bottled, so I'd love to collect some proven, tasty salad dressing recipes.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

do you have Joy of Cooking?

I find the salad dressing recipes in that cook book really good.

[Anonymous]

Sure. My current favorite is a dijion vinagrette with maple syrup.

Mix 2 tbps dijon with one tbps maple syrup, pinch of salt, pepper, pinch of thyme, and 2 tbps white wine or apple cider vinegar (you can use balsamic if you like). The slowing mix in 1 to 2 tbsp good olive oil.

Voila. Salad dressing.

[Anonymous]

I almost exclusively use Alice Waters' viniagrette recipe (from the simple salad at Chez Panisse) - finely chop a small shallot and let in sit in 2 T. of lemon juice or good quality vinegar (any kind, but I mix balsamic with a little bit of something else so it's not overpowering if I use balsamic) for about 1/2 hour. You can strain the shallots at this point or not (I don't). Add good quality olive oil (about 6 T.) and salt and pepper to taste. Whisk or shake, and done.

I sometimes add a bit of dijon, fresh herbs, etc.

My second favorite is an Asian dressing - mix a bit of sugar with vegetable oil, sesame seed oil, rice wine vinegar, and salt and epper.

[Anonymous]

Simplest = best.

Dijon mustard, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper.

or

sesame oil, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar or lime juice, chilis, garlic, and sugar.

[Anonymous]

Just made this yesterday:

1/2 cup of olive oil
3 tbs of soy sauce
1/4 cup of vinegar
1/3 cup of sugar

shake it in a jar/closed container. pretty good for a bok choy salad with fruit. The dressing is a bit runny, but tastes good.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Yummy-Bok-Choy-Salad/Detail.aspx

[Anonymous]

I know it sounds impossible, but I get rave reviews out of a TBS each of extra virgin olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Add a squeeze of honey to your taste, salt, and pepper. Everyone loves it. The link below also has a great dressing recipe (nice salad, too).

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-sos1-2009apr01,0,7915994.story

[Anonymous]

i make my favorite honey-balsamic vinaigrette in volume and store it in a clean jar. stores well and goes great on everything (grilled veggies, sandwiches, all kinds of salads).

http://www.chinesegrandma.com/recipes/balsamic-vinaigrette/

just posted this on the "no new salad ideas" (sic...hilarious typo) thread too.

[Anonymous]

I love this one:

olive oil
lots of lemon juice
coarse salt
pepper
diced shallots
diced garlic
I think you might be able to add rice wine vinegar too.

[Anonymous]

Basically, you want 3 parts of oil to 1 part of acid (lemon, lime, vinegar, mustard, etc.). Salt, pepper, herbs. Add a touch of something sweet if it's still not sweet enough to your tasting.