The Best Salad Dressing (You'll Never Buy Bottled Again!)

Category: Soups & Salads | Blog URL: http://seattlefoodgeek.com/2009/03/i-dare-you-to-drink-bottled-salad-dressing-again/

This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.

Photo: Scott Heimendinger

Ingredients

1/4 cup roasted garlic olive oil (homemade, or premade. I’m currently loving my bottle from the Temecula

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 teaspoon honey

1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation

Combine all ingredients in a small bowl or cup and whisk with a fork until emulsified.

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In no other dish does the condiment take center stage as it does in salad. With a billion varieties of dressings out there, it’s easy to be tempted by a bottle of Hidden Valley (or Annie’s, if you drive a Volkswagen). But, most of that bottled junk is full of calories and fat so it will have a long shelf life. This recipe is the base for most of the salad dressings I make. It takes all of 90 seconds, and it beats the pantaloons of anything I’ve had from a store.