Salad dressing ideas

I love a simple salad dressing - a squeeze of lemon juice, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar or a slurp of raspberry vinegar - but sometimes I want something a bit more fancy. I have oodles of salad recipes on this blog but I wanted to collect the ideas for dressings so I can find them when whipping up a quick salad.

Update - I know these dressings are overwhelming so if you want a good basic vinaigrette for 2 people try the Lemon vinaigrette.

Below are just some of the ways I have dressed salads on this blog.

Citrus dressings:

• Chermoula (lemon, parsley, cumin)
• Herb dressing for eggplant salad
• Lemon dressing
• Lemon balsamic dressing
• Lemon juice, garlic and oil
• Lemon, mustard and garlic
• Lemon, raspberry vinegar, mustard salad
• Lemon vinaigrette for tambo salad
• Lime chilli dressing (for rice salad)
• Lime mustard dressing
• Maple lime dressing
• Mexican vinaigrette - lime, cumin, chilli
• Orange dressing
• Orange, honey, walnut oil dressing
• Orange and shallot vinaigrette
• Orange vinaigrette
• Spicy lime coleslaw dressing
• Tahini and lime juice dressing

Creamy dressings:

• Avocado dressing
• Caesar salad dressing
• Creamy carrot salad dressing
• Creamy mustard coleslaw dressing
• Creamy pesto dressing for pasta salad
• Creamy peasant potato salad dressing
• Creamy potato salad
• Creamy taco salad dressing
• Yoghurt tahini dressing
• Vegan buttermilk dressing

South East Asian dressings:

• Honey miso dressing
• Maple tahini lemon dressing
• Soy mirin sesame oil soba noodle dressing
• Sushi rice dressing
• Tahini soba noodle salad dressing
• Tamari, mirin, ginger, herbs
• Thai peanut butter dressing
• Thai vinaigrette

Berry dressings:

• Blueberry dressing
• Crimson dressing - beetroot juice and raspberry vinegar
• Raspberry vinegar, mustard and honey
• Quick berry dressing (with fresh berries)

Other dressings (no citrus):

• Balsamic chocolate vinaigrette
• Balsamic mustard poppyseed dressing
• Dill pickle potato salad dressing
• Mustard and pesto dressing
• Pomegranate molasses vinaigrette
• Smoky red wine dressing 
• Tomato pomegranate vinaigrette

Last updated May 2014