Velva’s Classic Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
PUBLISHED ON: 10.17.2024
I have a memory from over forty years ago, about salad dressing. I watched an older sister of a friend dress a simple salad of iceberg lettuce and sliced tomato with white vinegar, vegetable oil, salt and pepper. This handful of simple ingredients became my ‘go to’ recipe for many years. Bottled salad dressings were rarely, if ever, part of my dinner table.
These days my salads are full of colors, and textures. My basic salad dressing evolved with the times too, and I dress my colorful salads before serving with a light toss of olive oil, any acid (any vinegar or lemon juice) a tiny dollop of honey, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper.
There are a million variations to the base dressing you can add to change up the flavors. You can add an array of herbs, garlic, ginger, choice of vinegar or acid. The sky is the limit.
A handful of simple ‘whole’ ingredients mixed in less than five minutes with no chemicals or preservatives. There is no salad dressing in a bottle that can compete with the fresh flavors of a homemade dressing.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar ( or any acid including fresh lemon juice)
1/2 cup olive oil
1 Tablespoons Dijon Mustard
1/2 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a glass mason jar or any container with a tight lid. Shake vigorously until emulsified.
Tip: you can combine all the ingredients in a bowl. Prepare your salad and place on top. Toss your salad when ready to serve.
David Scott Allen
Sounds like the beginning of a perfect salad! With the honey, I think it would be especially good with Mexican food.
Joel M Greene
I can appreciate your new refined pallet. I grew up having ketchup on my pasta, but now I understand that high end restaurants serve pasta with tomato sauce. MIND BLOWN. I must try that one of these days. Kidding aside, vinaigrette is my go-to dressing too.
Jordan
I just got a bottle of a new italian olive oil that I’ll have to try out with this recipe!
Debbie
Always good to have a simple go-to to start with. Thanks for sharing!
Mimi Rippee
With a clove of garlic it would be a classic French Vinaigrette. But no honey. It’s a perfect recipe!
Alfreda James
Velva’s Classic Vinaigrette Salad Dressing is soooooo very yummy! I’ve enjoyed it for years and it just keeps getting better!!!🥰
Frank Ciotti
Perfect, I can smell the blend of favors over roasted Brussels .
angiesrecipes
I love to use ACV in the dressing. This sounds terrific.
Frank | Memorie di Angelina
How lovely! I will never, ever understand why people buy bottled salad dressing when you can whip up a vastly more delicious one like this is literally seconds!
Eva Taylor
This is one of the greatest little finds to have up your sleeve; I rarely, if ever, purchase salad dressings!
Roz | La Bella Vita Cucina
We love simple homemade vinaigrettes like your recipe, Velva. This has the perfect ingredients for a delicious fresh salad!! Thanks for sharing the recipe. I hope you were safe in the hurricanes that hit Florida!!!!
sherry
this sounds good. I have to say i take the lazy route and just chuck on the dressing ingredients and give the salad a good toss!
cheers
sherry
Larry
Looks like a good basic dressing and good base to build from.
Cheryl Brooks Weldon
Making this tomorrow for a salad I am making for Veterans Village. Looks Perfect!
Raymund
We love making our own dressing as well as you can control the flavours you want. This dressing sounds really good, will definitely try this someday
Valentina
I love the simplicity of this and it sounds delicious. Isn’t it fun to remember the moments when “recipe” stuck with you. I love that. 🙂 ~Valentina
Tandy I Lavender and Lime
I also make my own salad dressings, and always with apple cider vinegar. So much better than anything store bought for sure!
David @ Spiced
The same thing happened to us just this past weekend! We had some spring mix, but no salad dressing so we whipped up a homemade version that is very similar to yours. So easy and so tasty!!
Jeff the Chef
I’m not one of those people who can just throw a dressing together. I never seem to get it right. So I appreciate a good recipe! Thanks!
Lea Ann
Everyone needs a good vinaigrette recipe in their back pocket. This sounds perfect.
Marcelle
I also prefer to make my own salad dressings when I can and my recipes almost always include honey. I just love the flavors it provides 🙂 We buy bottled salad dressings sometimes though, we love the Olive Garden Italian a lot 😉 Your delicious classic dressing will work for so many colorful salads, Velva!!
Karen's Kitchen Stories
I love the apple cider vinegar as the acid in this dressing!