Elevate your salads with homemade dressing. Crafting your own simple salad dressing is not only easy—it guarantees a preference for homemade over store-bought options. Blend your favourite seasoning mix with pantry staples like extra virgin olive oil and your choice of acid such as lemon juice or red wine vinegar, tailored to your taste. Pre-blended and precisely proportioned seasoning mixes eliminate any guesswork from dressing flavour bases, ensuring they become your preferred choice for creating delicious dressings that perfectly enhance your salad.
The Spice Drawer Expert Tip:
A balanced homemade salad dressing also serves as a bread dipper - one effort, two uses.
We use a hand held milk frother to incorporate the base of the dressing in seconds.
Our Quick Guidelines for a Customizable Dressing:
Everyone has their own preferred ratios for dressings, so why not start with our favourite and tweak it to match your taste?
- Our go-to mix is 2 tablespoons of acid (like lemon juice or red wine vinegar) for every 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. This ratio gives a slightly acidic dressing; if that sounds too tangy for you, start with half the acid and adjust from there.
- Next, add 2 teaspoons of an emulsifier (we love Dijon mustard or miso paste). This helps in attaining a smooth texture and helps to blend the ingredients perfectly.
- For that extra punch of flavour and a unique touch, add in your favourite seasoning blend from The Spice Drawer. The amount of seasoning depends on which seasoning you choose, but try 0.5 tablespoons to start and adjust to taste from there.
- Whisk it all up and season with salt to taste, and you've got a fantastic dressing.
The Spice Drawer's Favourite Spice Blends to use as a flavour base for Salad Dressing:
2 comments
My family loves the Italian blend from your brand as a base for our salad dressings. You do not need to add any other flavours if using it!
This is the only way I can ever get my dressings right, I rely on seasonings to do the work for me.