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★ Salad Dressing Recap ★ ✓Key flavor enhancer ✓Boosts absorption of certain nutrients ✓Easy to makeMake your own dressing so your salad stays delicious and nutritious.
Salad DressingsIngredients
Most store-bought salad dressings are packed with added sugar, artificial flavorings, thickeners, and preservatives. But it's super easy to make your own. Salad dressings are only make up of three basic ingredients, plus add-ins.
Fat can be oil, cream, yogurt, or even avocado.
Acid can be vinegar or citrus juice, as well as tomato juice or soy sauce.
Basic seasoning of salt.
Add ingredients like crushed garlic, spices, herbs, Dijon mustard, or honey to balance the acid.
How toMake a Salad(chart)
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Types of Salad Dressing
There are two main types of salad dressing. Most salad dressing recipes will fall into one of these categories.
Vinaigrette dressings are based on a mixture of oil and vinegar (or citrus), flavored with various herbs, spices, salt, pepper, sugar, and other ingredients. Tend to be more acid and are pourable.
Creamy dressings use mayonnaise, sour cream, yogurt usually based on mayonnaise or fermented milk products as a base. Are fattier and often thicker.
Salad DressingRecipes
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