Homemade Poppyseed Salad Dressing for Salads that will Rock Your Socks Off!

Do you ever have homemade poppyseed salad dressing at restaurants and wish you could recreate it at home with your own real-food ingredients?  And don't you especially want to get rid of the disgusting vegetable oils that you know they use, like soybean or canola oil? Well now you can, because our daughter and I have been experimenting and do believe we have nailed it!

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Homemade Poppyseed Salad Dressing

Author Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup of your favorite natural sugar, this time we used regular old organic cane sugar, but organic palm sugar would work well too for extra nutrients.
• 1 cup organic white vinegar (normally I use apple cider vinegar for recipes, but that's not quite what you want for this — hey did you see that there's a new KK printable available now?  It's got the Top 25 Ways to Boost Your Health with Apple Cider Vinegar — that stuff can do everything!  Click here to sign up so I can send it to you.)
• 2 teaspoons sea salt
• 2 teaspoons dried mustard (just use the search bar at that link to find it)
• 2 teaspoons grated fresh onion – you want it grated so it's just small bits of the flavor in there.
• 2 cups oil (we used 1/4 cup of my favorite olive oil and 1 3/4 cup of this oil)
• 2 Tablespoons poppyseeds (again, use the search bar at that link to find it)

Instructions

Using a food processor or blender (I love the blender on my Bosch and it's still going after more than 8 years now and I use my Bosch a LOT), mix together the first 5 ingredients, then slowly add in the oil and it will thicken.  Stir in the poppyseeds and it's ready to serve.

Here are some salad recipes that you could adapt for this dressing.

I like serving it over a variety of greens, organic and local always taste the best, along with more options, depending on what I have on-hand:

• Organic dried cranberries
• Crispy nuts
• Chopped cucumbers
• Chopped apples
• Oranges peeled and the slices halved or quartered for bite-sized pieces
• Shredded fresh Parmesan or cheddar cheese
• Crumbled feta cheese or goat cheese
• Hard boiled eggs, crumbled and chopped

Let me know what you think!

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