Six simple homemade Healthy Salad Dressing recipes to make your salads not only delicious but EPIC! From sweet to tangy to creamy, there’s a flavor for everyone. All made with 100% clean ingredients.
Most store-bought salad dressings are made with cheap low-quality oils and usually, they’re filled with processed white sugar. They basically transform the salad that you made with so much love to nourish your body into an unhealthy meal. On the other hand, if you find a salad dressing made with all-clean ingredients, it tends to be on the pricey side.
If you have been following Green Healthy Cooking for a while, you know I absolutely love salads! They are so incredibly versatile and flavorful. Combining flavors and textures is what makes a salad special.
Take this Mexican Quinoa Salad, for example, it is full of colors, textures and flavors in one bowl. It doesn’t need much else. But, if you make something more simple, like a carrot salad or a cucumber salad, it is ALL about the dressing. They both have very special and unique dressings. Anybody who’s tried them has told me they love them!
Let me show you how to make your own healthy salad dressings at home with high-quality ingredients in under 5 minutes, without breaking the bank.
Cilantro Lime Dressing
This Cilantro Lime Avocado Dressing is a super thick dressing that sticks nicely to the salad ingredients. It is great for salads that have ingredients cut into little pieces. I recommend making it if you know you’ll finish it all at once, because it has avocado. Avocado browns and it can’t be stored.
Maple Mustard Dressing
Maple Mustard Balsamic Dressing is my number one go-to when I’m in a hurry. It takes less than 2 minutes to prep. Super creamy dressing, great for simple salads based on mostly leaves.
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing
This Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing is vibrant and flavorful. A super quick and easy healthy dressing that will make you eat salads all day every day.
Greek Yogurt Herb Dressing
This Greek Yogurt Herb Dressing is a super versatile dressing when you have some herbs going sad in the fridge. A nice tangy-flavored dressing made for all the yogurt lovers out there.
Citrus Basil Dressing
An incredibly fragrant and flavorful dressing that is very low in fat. This Citrus Basil Dressing tastes amazing in loaded summer salads with plenty of ingredients.
Peanut Salad Dressing
This healthy Peanut Ginger Dressing tastes incredible with any cabbage-based salad. I absolutely love the smooth creamy peanut flavor on a crunchy cabagge leaf.
Frequently Asked Questions
Store your homemade dressing in an airtight sealable container in the refrigerator. Shake every time before using.
It depends on the ingredients: containing avocado no more than 24 hours. If containing fresh herbs up to 4 days. Without easily perishable ingredients for up to 2 weeks.
Any salad dressing made with real wholesome ingredients is healthy. Of course, enjoy in moderation and pay attention to your overall diet to ensure you do not overindulge in fat because of your dressing.
6 Healthy Salad Dressings
Ingredients
- FOR CILANTRO LIME DRESSING
- 1 small avocado
- 1 handful cilantro
- 1 lime
- 1-2 Tbsp water
- FOR MAPLE MUSTARD DRESSING
- 1 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
- 1 Tbsp Balsamic vinegar
- 6 Tbsp flavorless oil - avocado oil is my favorite
- FOR LEMON POPPY SEED DRESSING
- 6 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 Tbsp poppy seeds
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 1 lemon
- sea salt
- FOR GREEK YOGURT DRESSING
- 2 Tbsp mayonnaise - preferably homemade
- 2 Tbsp plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2 Tbsp water
- sea salt
- pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs - basil parsley cilantro dill – or a mix of them
- FOR CITRUS BASIL DRESSING
- 1 cup basil leaves
- 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 3 Tbsp flavorless oil - avocado oil is my favorite
- 1 orange
- 1 lime
- sea salt
- pepper
- FOR PEANUT SALAD DRESSING
- 2 Tbsp unsweetened smooth peanut butter
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 1 tsp grated garlic
- 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 lime
- 1-2 Tbsp water
Instructions
- Maple Mustard, Greek Yogurt, Lemon Poppy Seed, and Peanut salad dressings simply add ingredients to a sealable jar and shake to combine.
- Cilantro Lime and Citrus Basil Dressings add ingredients to a jar wide enough to fit your immersion blender and blend until smooth.
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Brenda Willis says
How.ick does each dressing yield?
Natalia Mackowiak says
What have you begin using the avacod dressing on?
Jodi Becker says
Just a question about the lemon in the lemon poppy seed dressing – do you use the juice and zest of a whole lemon? Thank you,
Lorena Grater says
The juice of the whole lemon.
Gloria ANANABA says
Can any type of mustard seeds be used for Greek yogurt salad dressing
Peter amoah says
I love it and am about to start my salad business
N says
Hi Lorena,
I just wanted to say a million thanks to you! I’ve been trying to toss up a proper salad for so many years with no success. Never liked the store bought dressings.
I just whipped up your greek yoghurt dressing and it turned out to be an absolute HIT! I just gave it a little bit of a twist with mint leaves, because it’s almost summer here in Australia. Never in my life did I enjoy a salad SO MUCH.
Thank you again! Love your work.
N
Sydney, Australia
Munisha says
Loved the recipes. Thanks for sharing.
Which containers are you using to store them? I really liked them in your videos, can you share where can I buy?
Lorena Grater says
So in the individual photos I’m using “Weck” jars. In the photo of the 6 together I’m actually using different ones because I don’t have 6 of the little Weck jars but only 2. The one’s I’m using in the photo with the 6 dressings stacked are just washed out creme fraiche jars.
Patty says
How long can these stay refrigerated?
Lorena Grater says
The ones with dairy/herbs up to 4 days. The ones without “fresh” ingredients last several weeks.
Betty-Anne says
Fabulous flavours and comes at a time when I am starting anti inflammatory diet which means no sugar, no dairy, and no gluten. Thank you
Toni says
I can’t wait to try these dressings! I looked for the small glass jars shown here but couldn’t find them. Thank you very much for sharing these great dressing recipes. My usual favorite has always been Italian but due to gallstones am not able to use oil based dressings. I’ll be looking for small jars. Size seems perfect for smaller quantities made fresh without added preservatives.
Geenva gutierrez says
Thank you you for sharing this ideas.it really a big help for us as working moms. Thank you and GOD bless you more