9 Salad Dressings To Make At Home

A healthy diet should include at least one salad a day. These is a good way to consume a wide variety of vegetables, necessary for health, in just one plate. One way to make these meals more enjoyable is to make salad dressings.

If you don’t want your salad to always be the same, you can change the sauces. No need to add a heavy, caloric dressing. You can use light and healthy sauces. Here we bring you 9 recipes for salad sauces that you have to choose from .

Zatziki (Yogurt Sauce)

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber
• 2 Greek yogurts (unsweetened).
• 1 tablespoon (15 g) of olive oil.
• 1 handful of minced fresh mint.
• ½ lemon.
• 1 clove garlic.
• Ground black pepper
• Salt.

Preparation

• First, peel the cucumber and grate it until you have a puree.
• Then, put it in a colander to drain all the excess liquid.
• Mix all the ingredients and you’re done.
• Leave the sauce in the refrigerator for at least 1 or 2 hours to give it more body and flavor.

• For a lighter sauce, substitute parsley for mint and do not add cucumber.

Mustard vinaigrette

Ingredients

• ½ cup (100 ml) of extra virgin olive oil.
• ¼ cup (62.5 ml) of vinegar.
• 2 tablespoons (40 g) of mustard.
• A handful of oregano.
• ½ clove of garlic.
• 1 little thyme
• Salt.
• Ground black pepper

Preparation

• First, put  all the ingredients in the mixer.
• Beat, but not too much so that the sauce is not too runny.

We also recommend the French vinaigrette, one of the most famous salad sauces. Just remove the garlic and thyme from the recipe. In this case, beat with a fork or sticks, as if you were beating an egg.

Egg Vinaigrette

Ingredients

• ½ cup (100 ml) of extra virgin olive oil.

• ¼ cup (62.5 ml) of vinegar.
• 1 small egg.
• 3-4 pickles in vinegar.
• Salt.
• Ground black pepper

Preparation

• First, bring the egg to a boil , when it is hard, separate the yolk from the white.
• Then, chop the pickles and the egg white into small pieces.
• Crush the yolk.
• Finally, mix the oil and vinegar and add the rest of the ingredients.

Cesar dressing

Ingredients

• ½ cup (120 g) of mayonnaise.
• ¼ cup (60g) heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon (15 g) of olive oil.
• 1 tablespoon (16 g) of vinegar.
• 2 anchovies.
• Chopped chives
• Salt and pepper.

Preparation

• Put all the ingredients in a bowl.
• Then mix them up. You can do it by hand or in the blender.

Sauce with honey

Ingredients

• ¼ cup (140 g) of extra virgin olive oil.
• A few shavings of lemon peel.

• 1 tablespoon (15 g) of vinegar.
• ½ teaspoon (5 g) oregano.
• 1 ½ tablespoon (45 g) of honey.
• 1 tablespoon (15 g) of lemon juice.
• Salt.
• Black pepper.

Preparation

• Mix all ingredients.

Cheese sauce, another of the salad sauces

Ingredients

• ½ yogurt.
• 1 tablespoon (15 g) of liquid cream.
• 2 tablespoons (50 g) cheese spread.
• 1 tablespoon (20 g) of mustard.
• Chopped chives
• Salt.
• Pepper.

Preparation

• First, put all the ingredients in a bowl.
• Beat all the ingredients by hand and lightly.

Tropical sauce

Ingredients

• 2 or 3 slices of pineapple.
• 2 tablespoons (30 g) of pomegranate grains.
• Lemon juice.
• 1 pinch of ground ginger (optional).
• 3 tablespoons (48 g) of extra virgin olive oil.

Preparation

• Start by putting all the ingredients in the mixer.
• Then beat until the mixture is runny.

Sweet and sour white sauce

This is a Chinese salad sauce. This sauce is great for salads with lettuce, carrot and agar agar seaweed. If you do not have rice vinegar, you can substitute apple cider vinegar, although it is not so authentic.

Ingredients

• ½ cup (125 ml) of rice vinegar.
• One cup (100 g) of sugar.
• 1 cup (120 g) of sunflower oil.
• 1 teaspoon (5 g) of salt.

Preparation

• Mix all ingredients.

Foie Sauce

Ingredients

• 2 scoops (50 g) of quality foie gras.
• ½ cup (125 ml) of chicken broth.
• ½ shallot.
• 3 tablespoons (50 g) of liquid cream.
• 2 tablespoons (25 g) of Port.
• Salt.
• Black pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil.

Preparation

• First, fry the minced onion.
• Then add the broth, the cream and the Port.
• When it begins to thicken, add the foie and let everything blend well.
• This sauce is great for a pasta salad.

Ideas for your salads

If you are tired of the typical tomato, lettuce and onion salad, in addition to the salad sauces, we give you a few ideas to make authentic gourmet salads ”.

• The combination of raisins, nuts and cheddar cheese cubes or cheese balls is great.
• The red onion, Kalamata olives and feta cheese, great for a Greek type salad.
• You can make salad with different types of lettuce.  If you want it to have a special touch, add one of our salad sauces.
• Pan fried in small squares or toasted. If you want to lighten calories, go for roasting.
• The gulas. In warm salads this ingredient is delicious. First pass them through the pan with a little olive oil, a chopped garlic and a chilli.
• Pomegranate grains. In addition to the color they give to the salad, they are ideal for those who love the crunchy texture in salads.
• Seeds, sesame, poppy, sunflower.

Now that you know these salad sauces, go ahead and prepare them and give your diet a twist. Don’t forget to eat fruits and vegetables every day.