Naturally Healthy Salad Dressing

Salads can be healthy and interesting. A different dressing can be whipped up fresh daily. Lettuce is not needed either. Various ingredients are waiting to be discovered.

My Favorite Pot Luck Dish

Salads are my specialty. They are everyone's favorite at pot lucks, and all my friends pick them out at a glance. Not only are they decorated with edible flowers, they contain unusual ingredients such as tasty common weeds. In the summer, these ingredients vary with the season, because my garden does not grow the traditional salad ingredients. I depend on Nature to provide from her own bounty. My article, "Weed Salads from My Garden" tells how you can find some of these ingredients. It is linked below. In our house, fresh salads are served once or twice daily, and no two are ever the same. I don't have a recipe but use whatever is available. In the summer, I just step outside to pick a basket full of whatever strikes my fancy. In the winter, I buy whatever is priced most reasonably that day. If necessary, I supplement it with frozen or canned produce. What really sets my salads apart, though, is the dressing.

My Best Salad Dressing

I like variety and mix fresh dressings differently for every salad just like I mix my herb teas differently for each potful. Basically, my dressings are made up of two main ingredients, fruit juice and olive oil. Various other ingredients are added to that base to enhance the flavor and to heighten the health benefits.

The Juice Ingredient

Whenever I am using fruit juice for drinking, I dilute it either with filtered water or with herb tea, but before I dilute it, I take off enough of it for the day's salad dressing. If I am opening a can of frozen concentrated juice, no matter what flavor, I will add some of it to the dressing in its concentrated form. The taste will be scrumptious! For a creamy dressing, I substitute yogurt for the fruit juice or a combination of the two.

The Oil Ingredient

Extra virgin olive oil is the best oil anyone can buy. It not only is needed by the body to function properly, the oil actually helps to lower bad cholesterol. Whoever said that oil and water do not mix had no acquaintance with olive oil. It is the only oil which I know to mix with a water-based liquid. When you whip both together or shake them in the bottle, the mixture actually thickens. The reason for using oil in salad dressing is to allow it to cling to the salad ingredients, keeping them from going limp from the liquid ingredients.

The copyright of the article Naturally Healthy Salad Dressing in Natural Health is owned by Traute Klein, biogardener. Permission to republish Naturally Healthy Salad Dressing in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.

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