5 Easy Homemade Salad Dressings You Must Try!
Easy homemade salad dressings: honey mustard, balsamic vinaigrette, yoghurt mint, peanut dressing and Thai sweet chilli vinaigrette
Nut-free
15 mins
Gluten-free
Vegan
Easy homemade salad dressings alongside my Summer Salad Series! I thought it would be great to give you all a few recipes to suit any craving and dietary needs!
I created these flavourful dressings to use whenever you change your salad ingredients around or just want to have a different flavour added to the same ingredients in your salad.
Honey Mustard Dressing
This dressing is normally used for root vegetables such as parsnip, carrots, turnips, beetroot or potatoes. If you have a salad that includes any of these, it may be a good idea to use this dressing for that. My recipe only has 5 ingredients, it’s light and not too thin. The thicker your honey mustard, the more bitter it is because of the mustard content.
Balsamic Vinaigrette
This is my favourite dressing. It goes with absolutely every salad possible. I normally use this for a pasta salad, with feta cheese, and roasted pumpkin. It’s got 3 ingredients and compliments the bitterness of any herby salad.
Yoghurt Mint Dressing
You can use this dressing instead of the typical Caesar salad dressing, or whenever you make a salad with avocado, peppers, nuts or beans (edamame/kidney/chickpeas). The cucumber, mint and lime juice in this dressing is extremely refreshing.
Peanut Sauce Dressing
I would recommend this dressing for all kinds of salads that have Asian ingredients such as Chinese cabbage, water spinach, bean sprouts, crispy wonton strips or tofu crumble.
Thai Sweet Chilli Vinaigrette
This dressing goes beautifully with any sweet fruits in your salad such as mango, watermelon or lychee. When you spice up sweet fruits, magic happens!
5 Must-Try Salad Dressings
A salad dressing for each day of of the work week!
Ingredients
Honey Mustard Dressing
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp mustard
- 2 tsp lime
- 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
Balsamic Vinaigrette
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tsp balsamic cream
Yoghurt Mint Dressing
- 3 tbsp yoghurt you can use vegan yoghurt
- 1 tbsp grated cucumber or you can replace this with dill
- 4 mint leaves
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder or freshly grated garlic
- 1/4 tsp lime juice
- 1/4 tsp pepper
Peanut Sauce Dressing
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tbsp warm water peanut butter tends to dry out after being kept in the fridge, so add more if needed
- 1 tsp soy sauce or tamari/coconut aminos
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp lime juice
- 2 tsp honey
Thai Sweet Chilli Vinaigrette
- 2 sweet basil leaves chopped
- 3 tbsps avocado oil
- 2 tbsps lime juice
- 1 tsp chilli flakes
- 1 tsp honey
- 1/4 tsp Tabasco optional
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- For each dressing, mix all the ingredients in a bowl and use right away!
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