I love making my own dressings at home. Most dressings found in pretty much any grocery store you go to have all kinds of unnecessary ingredients. You can find a few types that are healthy, but usually they fairly expensive.
The simple solution is to make your own dressings at home!
I love Annie's Goddess dressing just as much as the next foodie, but the price for the small bottle is just not worth it to me. I also LOVE tahini and any type of dressing (hummus!) involving it, it's a great binder for a quick and easy dressing you can make up in the bottom of your salad bowl as needed: whisk together some vinegar, oil of your choice, tahini, salt and pepper, top with greens and mix!
Tahini, made out of sesame seeds, is a nutritional powerhouse containing tons of important nutrients along with healthy fat and protein!
I searched around on the internet for a good recipe and came up with a great one on recipe zaar. A few little tweaks, and it came out perfect.
Recipe:
2 tablespoons plain olive oil
1/4 cup sesame oil (toasted myself!)
1/2 cup tahini
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1/2 cup hot water (more volume!)
5 small green onions (white and green parts)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons shoyu (soy sauce)
4 frozen garlic cubes
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Blend all together in blender or food processor! And bottle it up - old glass nut butter jars are great for this!
5 comments:
I made my own dressing for the first time last month and now see no point in every buying it again! wow, what a simple secret I don't know why it took me so long to discover! Now I just need to find a good bottle to keep it in! :)
Any type of glass drink bottle with a good top makes a perfect dressing bottle. I have also read that old PB jars work well and as a bonus you can use a hand blender in the jar so you won't have to dirty up your blender or food processor :)
Thanks for the comment!
I love reusing bottles and plastic containers too. :)
I need to try making my dressing more often. I agree, dressings can get pretty pricey. But I do have to admit, I always need a good bottle of ranch on hand. Totally necessary for dipping purposes!
You should definitely try mixing ranch packets with greek yogurt - a great healthy spin on ranch dressing. I have taken it to parties before an no one has known the difference!
Love Goddess! Thanks for a great recipe!!
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