A few months ago, I was chatting with a friend on the phone. She asked me about how comes she couldn't loose weight even though she eats salad for dinner. I figured out the problem of the salad...high fat content in the ingredients. A lot of people didn't know that there's a lot of preservatives and fat in the store brand salad dressing. The home-made dressing is much healthier It's not difficult to make salad dressing and you can store the left-over dressing in the fridge. The home-made dressing is much healthier than the store brand one, since you can use the best quality of olive oil and the amount will be under your control.
Here's one of my favorite salad dressing. It goes very well with all kinds of green salad, like spinach and rocket (arugula); and also shrimp & chicken.
zest & juice of 1 large lime
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 tsp Dijon mustard or 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard + 1/2 tsp whole-grain mustrad
1 tsp clear honey
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
salt & freshly ground black pepper
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If you have a glass jar, just put all the ingredients, close the lid tight and give it a good shake. Don't drown the salad with lots of dressing, just put enough amount to coat it lightly. You can store the rest of dressing in the glass jar...no need to buy a fancy glass jar, just use the left-over packaging jar of mustard or sauce.
3 comments:
Sounds yummy! I'll have to try this out. Whole Foods sells some really healthy, all-natural, minimum-ingredient salad dressings like Annie's Naturals and Galeos. Good in a pinch!
I made this last night, and it was delish!
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