Oil Free Honey Mustard Salad Dressing

All you want is 3 components to make low fats, taste packed, Oil Free Honey Mustard Salad Dressing! Drizzle over any and all salads.

A number of months in the past I reconnected with an outdated good friend I met throughout my MOPS days (MOPS!! That looks as if another person’s life! Move the Kleenex – I completely hate that my infants are rising up…) Anyway, Kim is a Registered Dietitian and is SO. DARN. SMART. Considered one of my favourite issues in life is listening to, studying from, and celebrating clever ladies of their aspect.

I’m in awe. I bow down. Who runs the world? Everyone knows the reply to that query. ;)

Throughout our catch up over espresso, Kim and I began discussing methods we would be capable of work collectively and the subject of an eCookbook for her shoppers got here up. She provides the recipes/ideas, and I tremendous tune then {photograph} them. I’ll let you recognize when it’s accessible by way of her program – the dishes are implausible!

One idea I’ve discovered about and adopted by way of writing the eCookbook, is consuming vegan till dinnertime. Translation: consuming tons and tons of greens, gluten free complete grains, and beans for breakfast, lunch, and snacks in between. In so many kinds and combos – it’s nearly unimaginable to get bored! Salads are after all a part of this system, and one method to jazz up an unlimited, vegetable-based salad is drizzling it with 3 ingredient Oil Free Honey Mustard Salad Dressing. 

Suppose salad dressing has to include oil? Suppose once more! This flavor-concentrated dressing takes 60 seconds to make and can rework the way in which you eat salads.

Oil Free Honey Mustard Salad Dressing

There have been a few recipes Kim’s recommended that I used to be initially shocked by – meals or flavors I hadn’t thought-about combining – and each single one has been a smash hit. I’ll take a look at the recipe then textual content her one thing alongside the strains of, “YOU ARE A GENIUS.” Her concept for Oil Free Honey Mustard Salad Dressing falls into the “genius” class.

Three components mix to make a flavor-packed, low fats, low calorie, gluten free, and vegetarian salad dressing that requires ZERO oil. That’s proper — you don’t want oil to make salad dressing — and it actually

You’re going to need to drizzle this on nearly all the things. Right here’s what you’ll want:

1. Lemon juice: Lemon juice brings freshness and brightness to the dressing.
2. Dijon Mustard: make certain the model you purchase is gluten free – I like Koops model.
3. Uncooked honey: I like Costco uncooked natural honey. You should utilize pure maple syrup in the event you choose that taste, or need to maintain the recipe vegan.

How A lot To Use

Since this dressing isn’t diluted with oil or water, you solely want a bit bit for even the most important of salads. For the massive salad you see right here, I used ~3 Tablespoons of the oil free dressing. I like to incorporate an avocado half, both sliced or chopped, within the salad then combine it up very effectively so it lends a creaminess to the dressing.

I like the way it brightens every chew up and actually lets the components within the salad shine.

Hey, What’s on this Salad?

Right here’s what’s within the salad you see right here – numerous contemporary greens plus plant-based protein:

• 2 large handfuls spring combine lettuce
• 1 mini cucumber
• large handful grape tomatoes
• 1/2 stalk celery
• ~2 Tablespoons Go Uncooked Seed Salad Toppers
• 1/4 cup shelled edamame
• sliced purple onion
• 1/4 cup shredded carrot
• 1/2 avocado
• ~1 Tablespoon hemp seed hearts
• ~3 Tablespoons Oil Free Honey Mustard Dressing

This can be a implausible to salad to make two or three of directly so lunches are tremendous simple all through the week. Simply seize, costume, and devour!

The way to Make Oil Free Honey Mustard Dressing

Like I mentioned, you solely want three components to make this oil free salad dressing:

• Contemporary lemon juice
• Dijon mustard
• Uncooked honey

Once more, you possibly can swap the honey for pure maple syrup (not pancake syrup) in the event you like that taste higher, and/or need to maintain the dressing vegan. You may also mess around with utilizing half Dijon and half yellow mustard if Dijon is a bit too zippy for you.

(Shh, actually you possibly can simply drizzle all of the components over your salad and blend it up, however I’ll present measurements for you under!)

Mix the components in a bowl then stir it up. Easy! Be happy so as to add a crack or 20 of black pepper in the event you like.

The ingredient quantities listed within the recipe card under makes sufficient for about 2 large salads – I hope you completely LOVE this new method to costume an enormous, contemporary salad! Take pleasure in!