You love salad but you are a little bored with your dressing? With the help of a few ingredients you can make your own salad dressing. We have the best salad dressings for you.
Variety is a must! This also applies to the salad! If you don't fancy ready-made salad dressings from the supermarket, you've come to the right place.
A fine salad dressing is simply part of a crisp salad. You can easily prepare homemade salad dressings with many different ingredients.
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This speaks for making salad dressing yourself
- Salad dressings from the supermarket often contain stabilizers
- Ready-made dressings are full of calories
- Sugar and excessive fat are also not uncommon
Admittedly, the advantage of a ready-made salad dressing is its ease of use. Just pour it on the salad, stir and you're done. But making your own salad dressing is not as complicated as you might imagine.
When you make your own dressing, you know what ingredients you're using and you add a lot of variety to your salad.
Little Tip: The dressing tastes best when you buy the ingredients not in the supermarket, but from a farmer directly from the farm. The taste of pumpkin seed oil, sunflower oil and Co from the farm is worlds better.
In the mood for something fruity? Try this DIY pomegranate dressing!
Make your own salad dressing: The preparation
Especially in the office, often not all ingredients are available. Salad dressing, however, can be quite great already prepare at home. Before eating, simply stir your dressing again and then pour it onto the salad. All containers that can be tightly closed are suitable as transport containers.
Shelf life of homemade salad dressings
If you want to make your own salad dressing, the shelf life also plays a role. 4-5 days holds any dressing. Provided you store it in the Refrigerator.
The more fresh ingredients you add, like onion or garlic, the faster you should use it up. But it always tastes best fresh.
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What vegetables should be in homemade dressings
By the way, vegetables, herbs and fruit provide a lot of variety. This not only has taste benefits, but also adds vitamins to your salad. Because green salad in particular is known to consist mainly of water. You will hardly find any vitamins in it.
These vegetables are suitable for your salad
- Cucumber
- Tomato
- Radish
- Onion
- Garlic
- Spring onion
- Carrots
- Paprika
- Beans
- Corn
- Avocado
Fruit gives your salad that something extra
But it doesn't always have to be vegetables. A sweet apple is perfect for an autumnal salad.
Our favorite:
- Pear
- Apple
- Grapes
- Lemon juice
More flavor thanks to herbs
If you want to make your own salad dressing, you should definitely get some herbs. Ideally, they should be fresh herbs. The dried ones often have little flavor. Alternatively, you can also take frozen herbs.
- Cress
- Basil
- Chervil
- Rosemary
- Chives
- Onion greens
- Maggie herb
- Parsley
- Sage
- Oregano
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Nuts and seeds for more bite
If you like it crunchy, you can also sprinkle seeds and nuts over the salad. However, I do not add this to the dressing, but at the end over the finished marinated salad.
- Sunflower seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Flaxseed*
- Quinoa
- Walnuts
- Almonds
- Hazelnuts
Cheese for gourmets
- Parmesan
- Hard cheese
- Mozarella
Other
Tuna, couscous, herring, eggs, olives, capers, herb salt
You can combine all these ingredients as you like. This brings variety to the plate.
Make your own salad dressing: Our favorites
Our salad dressing recipes are delicious and very easy to make fresh. Whether yogurt, vinegar, oil or fancy dressings - here is something for every taste.
Homemade yogurt dressing with vinegar and oil
Yogurt dressing is a popular alternative to the normal vinegar and oil version. It ensures that your salad tastes slightly tart and fresh.
You'll need this for 2 servings:
- 125 gram natural yogurt
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 3 tablespoons oil
- Parsley and chives
- Salt and pepper
Mix yogurt, salt and pepper. Now add vinegar and oil. Finally, add a tablespoon of finely chopped parsley and chives for your dressing.
If the sauce is too thick for you, you can thin it with a little water.
Make your own yogurt dressing with lemon juice
If you don't like vinegar and oil, this salad dressing recipe is perfect for you.
What you need:
- 2 parts yogurt
- 1 part curd
- 1 small clove of garlic
- 1 squeeze lemon juice
- Salt, pepper
- Chives and parsley
Mix the yogurt with the cottage cheese and mix until a uniform mass is formed. Now add lemon juice, finely chopped garlic, salt and pepper. Done. :)
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Sunflower meets garlic
My absolute favorite of the homemade dressings.
What you need:
- 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 small clove of garlic
- Herbal salt
I rarely make this dressing fresh. After all, if you let the garlic steep in the sauce for a few hours, it loses its pungency. This is much more pleasant to eat.
But otherwise this dressing is very simple: mix vinegar, oil and garlic. And later refine the salad with herb salt. Done.
Make your own salad dressing with raspberries
In between, it may also be something fancy. Then you can make your own salad dressing with raspberries. It goes best with green salad with nuts or seeds and parmesan.
For 2 servings you need:
- 8 raspberries
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1.5 tablespoons peanut oil
- Salt and pepper
Puree the raspberries. Add the vinegar and the peanut oil. Depending on how spicy you like it, now add salt and pepper.
To top it off, sprinkle nuts and Parmesan cheese on your salad.
Sweet and spicy with honey and mustard
Quite unusual but super tasty is the salad dressing with honey and mustard.
What you need:
- 1.5 tablespoons vinegar
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1/2 teaspoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon mustard
- Salt and pepper
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How pumpkin seed oil fans get their money's worth
There is hardly anything better than a good pumpkin seed oil. I just dare to say that now. :)
What you need:
- 2 tablespoons pumpkin seed oil
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 clove of garlic finely chopped
- Salt
Mix vinegar and oil. Chop or press the garlic very finely. It's best to do this in the morning. By lunch, the vinegar and oil will have taken the edge off the garlic.
For those who want to save unnecessary calories
Instead of vinegar and oil, simply use cold vegetable broth. It doesn't taste as good as a good dressing, but you can get a good dose.
Our conclusion
Making your own salad dressing is not an art. You can fully let off steam. The more often you vary, the better your salad tastes :)
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