"If you're trying to increase the presence of veggie-packed salads in your life but feel held back, it could be your dressing that's making you feel iffy. Bottled salad dressings are usually loaded with preservatives, saturated fat, sugar, and salt, turning a healthy midday meal into a processed food nightmare. That's why the secret to fresh, healthy, and downright-delicious salad comes down to one thing: a great homemade dressing."
"Making homemade salad dressings sounds like a tall order, but more often than not, they have the highest difficulty-to-deliciousness ratio of anything you can make from scratch. During my years as a professional cook, I was responsible for making the restaurant's from-scratch vinaigrettes from everyday ingredients. Now, salads are one of my favorite meals to make at home as an excuse to experiment with more dressing recipes, of course."
"One of my favorite ways to scratch a creativity itch in the kitchen is to experiment with different vinegars and oils in a homemade salad dressing. It pays to keep a selection of both stocked and play around with pairings until you find your holy grail dressing combo. Once you identify some excellent pairings, you can start building onto the recipe with herbs, aromatics, and sweeteners."
Homemade salad dressings replace processed bottled dressings that often contain preservatives, saturated fat, sugar, and excess salt. Making dressings from everyday ingredients yields high flavor for relatively low effort and can make salads more appealing and nutritious. Building a small pantry of oils and vinegars enables creative pairings and easier experimentation. Classic matches include extra-virgin olive oil with balsamic and wine vinegars; rice vinegar with neutral oils like avocado; and walnut oil with apple cider vinegar for cooler seasons. Once good pairings are found, dressings can be enhanced with herbs, aromatics, and sweeteners to suit taste.
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