Lively Lemon Herb Salad Dressing Recipe: Elevate Salads With Fresh & Wholesome Flavors by Jan Mostrom

Sauces/Condiments Salads
12 months ago

Lively Lemon Herb Salad Dressing Recipe: Elevate Salads With Fresh & Wholesome Flavors

This zesty herb lemon salad dressing recipe is great on a pasta salads, grain salads or on simple green salads. The lemon herb dressing take minutes to make. You simply pop all the ingredients into a food processor or blender. Within seconds you'll have a healthy salad dressing without any preservatives.

What are those ingredients? Here's your shopping list: fresh basil, fresh cilantro, garlic, lemons and olive oil. You'll also need salt and black pepper for seasoning the dressing. This is a chunky salad dressing, so it won't appear smooth at all while when serving it. You'll see those flavorful chunks of goodness all over your salad greens or whatever you drizzle it over.

You could add some fresh dill, mint or parsley to the salad dressing, too. This is sure to be a family favorite!

Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 0 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

Servings: 6

Ingredients

  • 1 cup fresh basil (packed down tight, about 2 ounces)
  • 1 cup fresh cilantro
  • 2 large garlic cloves
  • zest from 1 lemon (medium sized)
  • juice from 1 lemon
  • 2/3 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
  • 1/2 teaspoon cracked pepper (or to taste)

Here's how to make it: 

  1. Put the herbs, garlic and lemon zest into a food processor or blender. Pulse a few times.
  2. Add the olive oil, lemon juice, salt and black pepper. Pulse until combined, but not smooth.

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Donna John
Yum! I have everything to make this, so it'll be on my salad tonight. Jan Mostrom
Elisa Schmitz
Basil and lemon, mmm. I can taste this dressing already and loving it!

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