Simple healthy homemade salad dressing recipes for everyone. From a basic maple mustard dressing to special lemon poppy seed or basil citrus dressing. All dressings are made with 100% clean ingredients.
If you’ve been following Green Healthy Cooking for a while you know I love love love salads! They are so incredibly versatile and flavorful if you pour homemade healthy salad dressings over them. Combining flavors and textures is what makes a salad special. Take this Mexican Quinoa Salad for example. It has all the colors, textures, and flavors in one bowl.
If you go for something more simple, say a carrot salad, or a cucumber salad it’s ALL about the dressing. Both these salads have very special and unique dressings and anybody who’s tried them has told me they love them!
Eating salad is anything but boring if you have the right dressing to pour over it! Unfortunately, store-bought dressings are often made with cheap low-quality oils and ingredients. And if they are made with all clean ingredients they tend to be on the rather pricy site.
Why buy a salad dressing though when it’s so easy to make your own ones at home with high-quality clean ingredients in less than 2 minutes?
Here are 6 delicious healthy salad dressings you can try that won’t disappoint:
Cilantro Lime Dressing
This Cilantro Lime Avocado Dressing is ridiculously easy and incredibly tasty. Creamy avocado, fresh cilantro and lime juice will brighten up any food you pour it onto.
Maple Mustard Dressing
This Maple Mustard Balsamic Dressing is incredibly versatile! It’s like a secret formula you can adapt to your liking. It tastes amazing not only as a salad dressing but also as a sauce for chicken and fish! Also, of all healthy salad dressings in this post this one lasts the longest in the fridge.
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing
Give your salads a boost with this vibrant and flavorful Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing. A super quick and easy dressing that will make you eat salads all day every day!
Greek Yogurt Hebr Dressing
This Greek Yogurt Herb Dressing is a delicious way to jazz up your salads using clean ingredients. You’ll never go back to store-bought salad dressing again, and it’s WAY healthier, too!
Citrus Basil Dressing
This Citrus Basil Dressing has a punch of flavor and it is made with just a handful of fresh and healthy ingredients. It is SO good that it will become a staple dressing for your favorite salads.
Peanut Salad Dressing
Incredibly easy and flavorful, this smooth and creamy Peanut Salad Dressing is the perfect healthy topping for peanut lovers out there!
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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