I love Salads! How Can I Make Home Made Dressings?

Question

Do you have recipe ideas for making a salad dressing that I can use on my salads? I have high blood pressure and want to avoid sugar and salt. Also what kind of Lettuce should I use. I don't like Iceberg lettuce. Thanks.

Answer 1

There are about a million salad dressing recipes out there on the Internet. Google will help :-P.

If you can't be bothered making dressings with more than 3 ingredients; just use a mix of good quality extra virging olive oil and a white balsamic vinegar. No sugar, no salt. Olive oil is even meant to help with high blood pressure.

There are 6 main types of lettuce: Butterhead, Iceberg, Chinese lettuce, Looseleaf, Romaine (Cos) and Batavian. Within these 6 types are hundreds of variations. Maybe try going to a farmer's market and picking some of the unusual ones to try out. Or, some supermarkets have pre-mixed bags of fresh salad greens. Also, you could try other salad greens instead of lettuce varieties - e.g. spinach, chives, pak choi, rocket, cornsalad, water cress and saladburnet.

Answer 2

Orange Basil Vinaigrette:http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy...

Balsamic Vinaigrette:

1 teaspoon dried rosemary or 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt (or low-sodium Spike, Mrs. Dash, etc.)

3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

1/4 cup olive oil

Whisk all ingredients in a bowl until combined and serve, sparingly, over greens.

What type of lettuce to use?  Use spinach, arugula, mixed salad greens...really any dark-leafed lettuce will do perfectly.  Also these dark greens will give you quite a bit of calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, and iron.

Answer 3

I like to invent my salad dressings and experiment. I like to mix olive oil and regular oil as well (half/half), lemon, garlic and dried mint as the base and add different kind of vinegar (Balsamic or apple cider vinegar, etc)

Adding spices (curry or paprika is good as well)

You can try also different herbs. Use a mixer and try to experiment as well.  I like to use romaine lettuce or mix salad that is ready to use.

Answer 4

This link will help you -

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Answer 5

I love to make spinach salads...spinach is high in iron and has a little more sustinance than regular lettuce.

Mesclun mix is also really nice it has raddichio in it and some other nice leafy greens.

Boston lettuce is also really nice especially when it is in season.

As for dressing a good option is always just some oil and vinegar and you could use a salt substitute.

And you can switch it up by using different vinegars like blasamic and even a cider vinegar as well.