Making Your Own Salad Dressing (Recipe plus video)

Sometimes in our quest for better health, we can forget how important the basics can be.   In this video, I show you how to make your own healthy salad dressing quickly and easily in your own kitchen.   Store salad dressings – even organic ones at the healthfood store – are loaded with unhealthy, highly processed polyunsaturated oils that will cause inflammation in your body when consumed to excess in the typical Western diet (not to mention ugly brown spots on your skin!).

Make sure you are getting the fats right in your salad dressing – this is one of the most basic steps as you convert your kitchen to a place where Real Food reigns!

How to Make Your Own Basic Salad Dressing (video)

Here are the recipes from the video:

Basic Honey Mustard Dressing Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil (add last and whisk quickly while streaming slowly into the other already mixed ingredients)
1/3 cup raw apple cider vinegar
2 TBL raw, local honey
1 TBL organic dijon mustard

Instructions

Mix well and serve.

Maple Dressing Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil (add last and whisk quickly while streaming slowly into the other already mixed ingredients)
1/3 cup raw or pasteurized apple cider vinegar or strong kombucha (see picture above)
2-3 TBL Grade B maple syrup (dark)
1 TBL organic dijon mustard
1 crushed organic garlic clove
1/8 Tsp black pepper

Instructions

Mix well and serve.

More Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes

Another recipe to try using kombucha in place of the apple cider vinegar is this maple kombucha salad dressing.

This recipe for raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing is a delicious one to try too! Or, add some probiotics to your salad or sandwich with fermented thousand island dressing.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

Sarah

The Healthy Home Economist holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Mother to 3 healthy children, blogger, and best-selling author, she writes about the practical application of Traditional Diet and evidence-based wellness within the modern household. Her work has been featured by USA Today, The New York Times, ABC, NBC, and many others.