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!
Homemade Poppyseed Salad Dressing
Servings: 1.5 cups or so
Ingredients
- 1/3 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.
- 1/2 cup lemon juice or 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.
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon dried mustard, just use the search bar at that link to find it
- 1 teaspoons grated fresh onion – you want it grated so it's just small bits of the flavor in there. Add more to your own taste preference.
- 1 cup oil --we use this oil or avocado oil
- 1 1/2 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.
- Slowly add in the oil and it will thicken.
- Stir in the poppyseeds and it's ready to serve. Makes about 1 2/3 cup of dressing.
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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Denise Sandlin Wilson says
My 12yo son loves poppyseed dressing!
Elizabeth Spacek Grisham says
Sounds amazing!!! Can’t wait to make it. Thanks!
Sue Murphy says
Oh I love this dressing but wish it was lower in sugar.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
Sue Murphy — you can definitely make it with less sugar! 🙂
Sue Murphy says
Yeah, but it’s not as good :), I’ve tried. But I still make it, just not all the time. It’s one of my favorites.
Darlene says
Have you tried something like Truvia or another type of Stevia (I know Truvia is not totally stevia)
Kitchen Kop says
No I haven’t, but if you do, let us know how it tastes!
Kelly
Jennifer Kneip says
Thank you! I need good salad dressing recipes- I’ve been in a total salad slump. :/
Kelly the Kitchen Kop says
You’re welcome, you’ll love this one!
Magda says
Here is another one you might like:
https://paleoparents.com/2015/copycat-sweet-kale-salad-lemon-poppy-seed-dressing/