Make Your Own Dressing
Salads are one of my favorite meals. There are so many ways to jazz up a salad, either with a dressing, fruit or adding a protein.
One of the top New Year’s Resolutions is always to loose weight, so I thought that this recipe would fit nicely into many folk’s meal plans for 2012. Maybe you are on a full-fledged diet and exercise routine or just eating a few more salads each week, this dressing is a perfect addition to your recipe box.
The recipe comes from my friend Marissa, who brought a delicious Spinach Salad to a dinner party recently. She had been experimenting with dressings and had came up with a perfect combo. (I love having friends that cook!)
Try adding this dressing to a spinach salad and add chopped eggs, mushrooms, blue cheese and some crumbled bacon.
Special Dressing
3 T. chopped onion
2/3 cup white sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 cup olive oil
1/3 cup cider vinegar
1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
1 tsp. celery seed
1 T. prepared Dijon-Style Mustard
Prepare the dressing in a blender by combining the onion, sugar, salt, oil, vinegar, pepper, celery seed and Dijon mustard. Blend until smooth.
I see that is calls for 1 chopped onion and also 3T. chopped onion. Is this right? One whole onion seems like a LOT of onion…but, I do love onions.
This recipe calls for a lot of sugar and oil. Most regular dressings have way too much oil for my taste. I’m thinking you could cut the sugar and the olive oil to 1/3 cup each and use 2/3 cup unsweetened apple juice to replace the rest of the oil.
Why does the recipe call for 3 T chopped onion and then a whole chopped onion?
I am so sorry, No, there should not be 1 chopped onion to the recipe. I’ve made that change. And as far as the sugar goes, you can add less than this recipe- really all depends on your tastes.
I, too, LOVE salads and can’t wait to try this recipe, Thanks, Market Lady!
Utterly delicious with the spinach salad.