Truth: Salad dressing has the ability to make or break your salad. So instead of putting your faith in a bottled, pre-made concoction, you might want to put the fate of your salad in your own hands and whip up a homemade salad dressing. Here are 15 of my personal favorites to choose from!
In-Season. Summer is sort of the unofficial "season of salad." Warm weather and dry sunny days leave us easily craving cool, crisp, fresh, healthy salads. Instead of turning on your oven or slaving over a hot stove, just reach into your fridge and create a chilled out meal filled with colorful, diverse ingredients like greens, chopped veggies, fruit, legumes, nuts, seeds and grains. And a drizzle of amazing dressing on top.
Summer salads remind us that salads do not have to be thought of as "starters or sides," but have the ability to be the main event of the meal. Summer is the perfect time to perfect your "entree salad" creations.
What is the Dressing? Whenever I post a photo of one of my dinner salads on
Instagram the most common question I get is
"what is the dressing?" It seems that most people know how to throw ingredients in a bowl, but sometimes salad dressings can seem mysterious or challenging to us. So this post will hopefully give you insight into a few of my favorite go-to salad dressing recipes.
Go-To Dressing Inspired. Last week I stumbled on this fabulous article by
The Kitchn:
5 Salad Dressing to Know by Heart. And I was so inspired by the article that I wanted to do my own go-to recipe guide, only my version uses vegan ingredients. And I added more recipes because, quite frankly, I couldn't settle on my five faves. Get my
15 Go-To Vegan Salad Dressing Recipes for summertime, and all year long..