Making your own salad dressing is a great way to cut down on hidden salt and sugar in your diet. Manufactured salad dressing is a huge source of hidden sugar, and it’s completely unnecessary. A salad with fresh veggies, or even fruit, which is a favourite salad ingredient of mine, will have plenty of bursts of sweet, you don’t need it in your dressing. Continue reading
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Poppy Seed Dressing
I use this dressing all the time. It’s great on green salads and it’s great with this quinoa salad. This amount is perfect for one bowl of Quinoa Salad, but it you triple the recipe it will keep in a mason jar in the fridge for up to two weeks. Continue reading
Tomatillo Salsa
Tomatillos are the main ingredient in a traditional Mexican green salsa. Part of the appeal of these green tomatoes is their light, tangy flavour and the fact that they come canned for easy storage. The other key ingredients are cilantro and jalapeno. Whether you leave the seeds in the jalapeno is entirely dependent on your heat tolerance level. Adding yogurt to the leftover salsa makes a great salad dressing.
Broccoli Salad
My kids love broccoli when I make it like this. I have tried it with raw broccoli and lightly steamed, but we prefer it raw. When steamed the flowers retain a lot of water and it gives a watery aspect to the entire salad, so I don’t recommend it. The dressing for this salad can also be used for a basic coleslaw or carrot slaw as well.
Classic Potato Salad
During the summer we love a good potato salad with grilled food. Well, to be honest, we have it with burgers in the winter, too. I like having some different textures in my potato salad, and the diced celery pieces add a nice burst of freshness and crunch, but otherwise I keep it pretty simple. Check out the Tips section for ways to switch it up, depending on what you’re eating with it. Continue reading
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