Daily Vinaigrette
- November 2010
- Recipes
I eat salad almost every night, often as my complete dinner, and it makes me wake up feeling great.
And I always make a vinaigrette dressing, which is really easy. I use a small marble mortar and pestle to crush the garlic, but a garlic press works well too.
1 or 2 cloves garlic, pressed
olive oil
apple cider vinegar (sometimes I use balsamic)
lime juice (just keep a bottle of pure lime juice in the fridge to make your life easy)
Put the crushed garlic in a small bowl and add a decent amount of olive oil. Whisk them together with a little wire whisk. (A lot of times I do this first and then let the garlic sit in with the olive oil while I wash the lettuce and make the rest of the salad.)
Add a similar amount of apple cider vinegar, and a dollop of lime juice, and whisk well. The vinaigrette should turn thick and creamy because of the lime juice.
Another way to do this is to use a Ball jar, or any small glass jar with a well-sealing lid: put everything in the jar and shake it vigorously for about 20 seconds.
When your salad is ready, hold the shreds of garlic back with the whisk, and pour the vinaigrette over the salad. Then toss.
Delicious!
