Recipes for Salad Dressings

Creamy dressing with coconut milk and cashews, refreshing hemp oil dressing, delicious dressing with sea vegetables ... discover our 6 recipes for salad dressings and choose your favourite.

A salad dressing tastes great when the ingredients complement one another. They should bring out the best in each other. Only high quality ingredients can do this. A good olive oil will absorb the aromas of the spices better.

Use High Quality Ingredients for the Base, the Rest Will Follow

In a dressing you can easily add the spices of which you believe more is better. Adding a teaspoon of any of the Amanprana Botanico mixes to your dressing doesn’t take up a whole lot of time. And the fat in the oil you’ve used ensures that the minerals, vitamins and trace elements in the Botanico mixes can be better absorbed by your body.

There are plenty reasons to opt for a homemade salad dressing instead of a supermarket dressing. But we often lack the inspiration and make a classic olive and balsamic vinegar dressing. We can do better!

#1 Creamy Dressing with Coconut Milk and Cashew Nuts

Add salt to a dressing for flavour and for its texture. With Khoisan fleur de sel you sometimes taste the salt grain without the dressing tasting ‘too salty’. In contrast to fleur de sel, table salt is finer and lighter, which means that each bite has the same salt content and tastes the same. Table salt can make it seem like the dressing contains too much salt.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Quantity: 300 ml
Shelf life: can be kept at least 1 week in the fridge

Ingredients
½ cup cashew nuts (soaked for 12 hours in water beforehand)
1 cup coconut milk
juice of 1 lemon
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon onion powder
½ teaspoon dill
½ teaspoon Khoisan fleur de Sel
¼ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon finely chopped scallions

Preparation
Grind the cashew nuts with the (hand) blender.

Add the coconut milk gradually.

Add the spices and the lemon juice and mix well.

Watch out: the coconut milk stiffens in the refrigerator. Take dressing out of the refrigerator a sufficient amount of time before use.

#2 Summer Dressing for a BBQ

The characteristics of a good olive oil are much more than the label ‘cold pressed’ or ‘extra virgin’. The less amount of ingredients used in your salad dressing, the more important the quality of the olive oil. Or so you would think. The quality of the olive oil always has an influence on the flavour of your dressing, regardless of the composition.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Quantity: 4 persons
Shelf life: can be kept at least 1 week in the fridge

Ingredients
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
juice of 1 mandarin orange
juice of 1 lime

Preparation
Mix all the ingredients together.

Be sure that your dressing flavours all the vegetables in your salad. Use salad tongs or your hands to spread the dressing.

# 3 Mustard Dressing with Coconut Blossom Sugar

Adding refined sugar to your homemade dressing doesn’t make your dressing much better than what you can find in the supermarket. Pay attention to the sweeteners that you use to balance out the flavours in your salad dressing. Coconut blossom sugar is a wonderful alternative. Together with salt flakes, Gula Java Brut adds texture to your dressing.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Quantity: 4 persons
Shelf life: can be kept at least 1 week in the fridge

Ingredients
4 teaspoons mustard
2 teaspoons coconut blossom sugar
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
1+½ teaspoon ginger powder
1+½ teaspoon apple cider

Preparation
Mix the ingredients with the help of a (hand) blender.

# 4 Balance Delight Hemp Oil Dressing

If you already use hemp seed in the kitchen, then you are familiar with the nutty, fresh taste of hemp. Hemp oil, such as Balance Delight, has a very similar flavour. It is the pure, cold pressed oil of hemp seed. When you add this oil to your salad dressing you don’t need to add any other nuts or seeds.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Quantity: 4 persons
Shelf life: can be kept for at least 1 week in the fridge

Ingredients
1 tablespoon Balance Delight Hemp Oil
1 tablespoon finely chopped scallions
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 clove of garlic
½ teaspoon of honey

Preparation
Put all the ingredients together in a shaker and shake well.

# 5 Dressing with Walnut Oil and Fresh Thyme

A soft walnut oil with subtle aromas can elevate your dish to a whole other level. Just like you could call olive oil by itself a dressing, you can do the same with a high quality walnut oil. If you want to create an even stronger walnut flavour in this dressing, you can mix finely chopped pieces of walnuts into the oil.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Quantity: 4 persons
Shelf life: can be kept for up to 1 week in the fridge

Ingredients
½ cup walnut oil
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon maple syrup
2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon Khoisan fleur de sel
½ teaspoon ground pepper
1 teaspoon finely chopped thyme

Preparation
Mix the ingredients with the help of a hand blender.

# 6 4-Algae Dressing Based on Vegetables from the Sea

Sea vegetables have been growing in popularity. And rightfully so, as they are one of the greatest natural sources of minerals. If you dislike the flavour of sea vegetables such as nori, but are still hoping to reap the benefits, you definitely need to give this recipe a try. Hardly any detectable sea flavour. If, however, you adore the flavour of the sea, please feel free to add 2 or 3 tablespoons extra to the mix. The more 4-Algae, the better.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Quantity: 4 persons
Shelf life: can be kept up to 1 week in the fridge

Ingredients
½ to 1 tablespoon of 4-Algae
3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons coarse mustard
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon maple syrup
fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation
Mix the ingredients with the help of a hand blender.

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