I prefer to make my salad dressings at home instead of using storebought salad dressings because I can control the ingredients in my salad dressings. Homemade ones are free of preservatives, corn syrup, sugar, harmful additives, food colorings. Hence they turn out to be very healthy compared to store-bought ones and also they taste fresh.

Here are few recipes for quick and easy homemade salad dressings.

Balsamic Chocolate Dressing

1/2 Cup of Organic Balsamic Vinegar

1/3 cup of organic extra virgin olive oil

2 tablespoon unsweetened organic cocoa powder. If you prefer to use cacao powder, use less quantity as it is bitter and stronger than cocoa powder.

1/4 cup organic raw honey

Pinch of salt

1/4 cup of honey mustard

2-3 Dried red chilies whole

Blend it in the mixer

Pour in the jar and refrigerate it.

Balsamic Vinaigrette

1/2 cup of Organic Balsamic Vinegar

1/3 cup of organic extra virgin olive oil

1/4 cup of honey

pinch of salt

1/4 cup of honey mustard

1 teaspoon of red chili powder (optional)

Blend it in the blender, store in the jar. Refrigerate it.

Balsamic vinaigrette is a very versatile dressing as if you want you can add blueberries to it before blending and make blueberry Balsamic vinaigrette. You can make Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette by adding strawberries before you blend it in a blender. Feel free to try and experiment in a similar manner with blackberries or raspberries

Mango Jalapeno Balsamic Dressing

1/2 Cup of Organic Balsamic Vinegar

1/3 cup of organic extra virgin olive oil

1 ripe mango

2-3 Jalapenos.

1/4 cup organic raw honey

Pinch of salt

1/4 teaspoon of paprika powder

1/4 cup of honey mustard

Blend it in the mixer

Pour in the jar and refrigerate it.

Cilantro lime Dressing

1/4 cup of organic extra virgin olive oil

Juice of 1 lime or lemon.

1 avocado. Peeled, Pitted, and diced

Salt to taste

1 cup of washed and chopped fresh cilantro

2-3 Jalapenos roughly sliced

1/4 cup of organic raw apple cider vinegar

1-2 cloves of garlic

small piece of ginger

Blend it in the mixer

Pour in the jar and refrigerate it.

Feel free to comment and share your ideas as well.