14 Homemade Dressing Recipes to Shake Up Your Salad Game! (2024)

Get ready to spring into salad season with these tasty homemade dressing recipes!

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There are a really really ridiculous amount of salads in my near future. I took my comfort food cravings a bit too far these past few weeks (um, months? let’s not be modest here!) and it’s time to lighten things up!

I started pouring through my dressing database to make myself a little cheat sheet of my favorite homemade salad dressings and thought it might be fun to revisit my themhere as well!

14 Homemade Dressing Recipes to Shake Up Your Salad Game

As an added bonus, most of these links have a delicious salad recipe accompanying them. Awesome, right!?

1.Classic Greek Dressing Recipe

Since rabbit food is insanely boring all on it’s own, we’re going to sass up our salad game with this super simple, super tasty homemade Greek dressing.It’s easy, delicious, and many of us will already have all the ingredients on hand– woot! This crazy easy recipe includes both a vinaigrette and a creamy version.

It’s hands-down one of my favorite homemade dressing recipes of all time!

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Easy Homemade Greek Dressing

4.86 from 27 votes

Ditch the sketchy processed bottled dressing and whip up this super quick, super easy homemade Greek dressing! Recipe yields approx. 7 TBSP or just under 1/2 a cup of dressing. Feel free to double or triple as needed.

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2. Creamy Avocado Dressing

This delightfully delicious dressing is downright dreamy, yo. (alliteration – whoo!)

I whipped it up to dress my super healthy chopped broccoli cauliflower saladand quickly decided it needed to be slathered on everything in sight.

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Creamy Avocado Dressing

5 from 3 votes

You’ll want to pour this creamy avocado dressing on everything in sight! Yields 2 cups of dressing

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3.Homemade Caesar Dressing

This homemade Caesar dressing is hands-down our favorite! It’s thick, creamy, and full of flavor, perfect for a rockin’ Caesar salad.

Another one of my favorite homemade dressing recipes, we especially love it atop myKale Caesar Salad with Crispy Garlic Chickpeas<– SO GOOD!

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Homemade Caesar Dressing

5 from 9 votes

This homemade Caesar dressing is hands-down our favorite! It’s thick, creamy, and full of flavor, perfect for a rockin’ Caesar salad with all the fixin’s.

Recipe yields approx. 18 (2 TBSP) servings or about 1 + 1/4 cups of dressing. It’s also crazy easy to double or triple to serve a large group. Enjoy!

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4.Simple + Speedy Italian Dressing

Salad dressings are so flipping easy to make that there’s very few reasons to ever buy a premade dressing ever again. Seriously so so easy!

This super speedy homemade Italian dressing is my go-to for pasta salads, cucumber salads, and you’re run of the mill empty-the-fridge-of-all-its-veggies salads. Let’s make some dressing!

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Easy Homemade Italian Dressing

5 from 14 votes

This uber easy homemade Italian dressing is so fast and flavorful, you’ll never buy pre-made dressing again!

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Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing

5 from 5 votes

Skip the store! This delicious homemade lemon poppy seed dressing is crazy easy to make with just a few tasty ingredients!

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Honey Sriracha Lime Dressing

5 from 6 votes

Quick, easy, and full of flavor,this Thai-inspired Honey Sriracha Lime Dressingis sure to be your new favorite salad topper!

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6. Sriracha Lime Dressing

Quick, easy, and full of flavor,this Thai-inspired Honey Sriracha Lime Dressingis sure to be your new favorite salad topper!

Refreshing, crisp cucumbers are a perfect match for this dressing. Serve it on a simple sliced cucumber salad with a little chopped cilantro or dill, or simply empty the contents of your crisper drawer into a bowl and have at it!

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Balsamic Blueberry Salad Dressing

5 from 3 votes

This recipe makes a bottle’s worth of dressing (approx. 1.5-2 cups) which will keep great in the fridge for a few days. Only want a little? Feel free to cut the recipe in half – it’s super easy to do!

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7. Balsamic Blueberry Dressing

This Balsamic Blueberry Salad Dressing is ready to shake up your Spring and Summer salad game! You’ll want to pour this fruity blueberry dressing on salads all season long.

8.Honey Harissa Vinaigrette

This homemade honey harissa dressing is a crazy easy and totally crave-worthy salad dressing! Full of sweet and savory flavor, this versatile vinaigrette compliments everything from plain green salads to veggie packed cucumber and quinoa bowls.

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Honey Harissa Vinaigrette

Homemade Honey Harissa Vinaigrette is a crazy easy and totally crave-worthy salad dressing! This versatile vinaigrette compliments everything from plain green salads to veggie packed cucumber and quinoa bowls.

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Honey Chipotle Dressing

5 from 7 votes

A copycat of the deeeeelish dressing from Chipotle, this Honey Chipotle Dressing is fast, flavorful, and ready to rock any salad you pour it on!

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Buttermilk Ranch Dressing Recipe

4.56 from 9 votes

This is the ULTIMATE restaurant-style Buttermilk Ranch Dressing recipe that my family and friends go absolutely nuts over! We love this easy homemade ranch!

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Creamy Greek Yogurt Feta Dressing

5 from 9 votes

This Creamy Greek Yogurt Feta Dressing is ready to rock your veggies! Uber easy and ready in just6 minutes, you’ll want to pour this dressing on everything from salads to sandwiches.

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9. Creamy Greek Yogurt Feta Dressing

This Creamy Greek Yogurt Feta Dressing is ready to rock your veggies! Uber easy and ready in just6 minutes, you’ll want to pour this dressing on everything from salads to sandwiches.

10. BLOOD ORANGE DRESSING

I’m head over heels in love with this blood orange salad dressing.Not only is it crazy easy to make, but the taste is oh so delicious!

The ingredients are simple, yet flavorful. After zesting some of your blood orange, you’ll combine the zested peel with freshly squeezed blood orange juice, lemon juice, a little healthy oil, garlic, dijon, and honey. Season with salt and pepper then blend it all together and Houston, we have a salad dressing!

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Blood Orange Dressing

5 from 3 votes

Jazz up your Spring and Winter salads with this easy Blood Orange Dressing!

Feel free to double this recipe if needed! Dressing will keep for several days tightly sealed and refrigerated. Shake before serving.

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Maple Citrus Salad Dressing

5 from 5 votes

Whip up this super tasty homemade maple citrus dressing in less time than it takes to searchyour fridge for that probably-expired, semi-sketchy store-bought bottle of salad dressing.

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11.Fruity Citrus Vinaigrette

I whipped up this deliciousness to dress my Cranberry Quinoa Salad with Candied Walnutsand promptly fell in love. During recipe testing,I stole a spoonful to taste test and found myself diving back in for seconds or thirds.

The combination of juicy lime and orange juice with the subtly fruity undertones of the olive oil and the punch of raw garlic? I just love it. You should probably go ahead and double the recipe so you can pour it on your veggies all week long.

12.Homemade Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

Pair this delicious homemade honey mustard dressing with your favorite salad! We love ours over baby spinach with dried cranberries, sliced almonds, and crumbled feta.

This scrumptious honey dijon vinaigrette is fast and flavorful! It’s also super easy to customize so you can make it as mild or as bold as your heart desires. Anything goes when it comes to salad dressing!

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Homemade Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

5 from 8 votes

Pair this delicious Honey Dijon Vinaigrettewith your favorite salad!

Recipe yields enough for 3-4 side salads or two large salads. Feel free to double or triple as needed!

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Paleo Ranch Dressing

5 from 3 votes

Ditch the sketchy processed bottled dressing and whip up this super quick, super easy, homemade paleo ranch dressing!

Recipe yields six 2 TBSP servings.

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13.Paleo Ranch Dressing

This paleo ranch dressing is crazy amazing and deliciously dairy-free thanks to the inclusion of dreamy, creamy coconut milk.

As with most dressings, this bad boy is gluten-free but it also as the added bonus of being keto-friendly, dairy-free, whole30 compliant and just overall awesome!I’ve been enjoying it on top of salads, lettuce wraps, and my buffalo shrimp spaghetti squash and totally love it!

14.Cilantro Lime Dressing

This zesty Cilantro Lime Dressing is fun and flavorful. We love it over myMexican Kale Salad,Edamame Salad, and taco salads galore!

BONUS SALAD DRESSING RECIPES

  • Homemade Balsamic Dressing
  • Creamy Curry Dressing
  • Sweet Chili Dressing
  • Basil Vinaigrette Dressing

I’m a total salad nerd, but going through the archives made me even more excited to put these bad boys back into rotation!

Of course this warm weather also means buckets of watermelon, pasta salad, sliced cucumber water, and oodles and oodles of veggie burgers. Sign me up!

What’s your all-time favorite salad dressing?

If you get a chance to try any of these healthy homemade dressing recipes, let me know!Leave some love in the comment form below or tag your photos with @peasandcrayons on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creation! I can’t wait to see what you whip up!

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14 Homemade Dressing Recipes to Shake Up Your Salad Game! (2024)

FAQs

Why is necessary to shake bottle of salad dressing before adding it to a salad? ›

Vinaigrette is a temporary emulsion, one that quickly separates. That is why it is necessary to shake oil-and-vinegar dressings before using them. A permanent emulsion is a mix of liquids that will not separate because there is an emulsifier added. An emulsifier is a substance that keeps the oil and vinegar blended.

What is Thousand Island sauce made of? ›

Thousand Island Ingredients: It's mixture of mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup, sweet pickle relish, red onion vinegar, sugar, garlic, and salt and pepper. All ingredients are combined by hand to make a perfect, thick, and creamy dressing, dip, or sauce.

What is a primary ingredient of salad dressing that has a good clean sharp flavor and about 5 acidity? ›

Vinegar – should have a good, clean sharp flavor. Most salad vinegar are about 5% acidity, but some range from 7-8%.

What happens when you mix vinegar and olive oil? ›

Oil and Vinegar are essential in creating an optimal emulsion – where the two ingredients bind together so well that you can't separate them even when shaken vigorously. An optimal emulsion happens when you combine these ingredients in equal parts with a ratio of three parts oil to one part vinegar (3:1).

Can you emulsify salad dressing by shaking? ›

Can You Emulsify With a Jar? You may be wondering about the old-fashioned "shaking it in a jar" method. This works best when using a very thick base. Keep in mind you'll have to shake like crazy to break the oil into microdroplets.

What is the unhealthiest salad dressing? ›

Caesar dressing. Made up of mayonnaise, cheese, salt and oil (and all too often, anchovies), Caesar tends to be one of the least healthy options out there. Those ingredients cause it to be high in both saturated fats and sodium.

What is the number one healthiest salad dressing? ›

Generally speaking, the healthiest salad dressing will be a vinaigrette like balsamic or oil and vinegar, while Caesar, ranch or anything with the word “creamy” will be the unhealthiest. The exception? We like products made with healthy swaps—think Greek yogurt in place of mayo or heavy cream.

What is the oldest salad dressing? ›

French dressing is the oldest one on our list, but vinegar and oil dressing goes back nearly two-thousand years to ancient Babylonia.

What is Russian dressing made of? ›

Typically piquant, it is today characteristically made of a blend of mayonnaise and ketchup complemented with such additional ingredients as horseradish, pimentos, chives, mustard, and spices.

What do you get when you mix ketchup and mayo? ›

Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or tostones (twice-fried plantain slices) in many places in the world. It is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise.

Is Big Mac sauce just Thousand Island? ›

The answer is no… but they are similar. Both of the condiments have a creamy consistency and include pickle relish. But, McDonald's Big Mac Sauce includes vinegar and has a bit more pickle relish in it than Thousand Island dressing.

What is the most requested salad dressing? ›

Ranch Dressing

The ranch is hands down America's most beloved salad dressings. It is made from a number of ingredients such as buttermilk, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic, onion, chives, salt, and pepper.

What are the 3 basic types of salad dressings? ›

In Western culture, there are three basic types of salad dressing: Vinaigrette; Creamy dressings, usually based on mayonnaise or fermented milk products, such as yogurt, sour cream (crème fraîche, smetana), buttermilk; Cooked dressings, which resemble creamy dressings, but are usually thickened by adding egg yolks and ...

What are the 4 basic types of salad dressings? ›

The four main salad dressings are vinaigrette, emulsified vinaigrette, mayonnaise-based, and mayonnaise. An emulsion is the permanent blending of unlike ingredients, such as oil and vinegar. Vinaigrettes are lighter dressings used on more delicate ingredients, like salad greens.

Why does a bottle of vinaigrette have to be shaken before being used? ›

Emulsify Before Using

A vinaigrette doesn't stay a unified whole for long, but when shaken and stirred, the oil and vinegar create a temporary emulsion. An emulsion is when you mix two things together that don't normally mix, i.e. vinegar and oil.

What is the function of salad dressing shaker? ›

Salad dressing mixers and shakers are specialized containers designed to simplify the process of making, mixing, and dispensing salad dressings. These tools are crafted to efficiently emulsify ingredients, ensuring a well-blended and evenly distributed dressing for salads or other dishes.

Why a bottle of salad dressing made from vinegar and olive oil must be shaken before use? ›

Many salad dressings contain a combination of olive oil and some sort of vinegar. You usually have to shake or mix these salad dressings well because the olive oil separates from the vinegar.

Why do you shake salads? ›

When you're ready to eat your salad, just unscrew the cap and shake it into a bowl. Everything gets pretty compacted in the jar, so some vigorous shaking may be needed! This shaking also helps to toss the salad ingredients with the dressing.

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