If you’re looking for clean eating salad dressings, read below to find 15 delicious homemade dressings you’ll love!
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Making the Perfect Salad
Salads are a tasty way to get a variety of veggies into your diet, without feeling like you’re eating vegetables.
I like to make a large bowl of salad on Sunday evenings so I have salad ready to go for lunch during the week.
There are also a ton of great salads in mason jar ideas on Pinterest!
To make my rendition of the perfect salad, I chop fresh, crisp romaine lettuce, add in organic baby spinach, and sometimes butter lettuce. Then I top it with shaved carrots, diced bell peppers, cherry or grape tomatoes, shaved radishes, and occasionally I will throw in some olives or pickles (which sounds weird, but it’s super good).
My favorite toppings for salad include homemade croutons from crunchy leftover bread, grilled chicken breast, sunflower seeds and even capers.
The lettuce is just the canvas, but what you can turn it into has infinite possibilities!
But let’s not forget what is arguably the most important component of a salad… the clean eating salad dressing!
Make your own Clean Eating Salad Dressing Recipes
A great dressing can make a salad.
This is perhaps why the grocery store shelves have hundreds of different flavor combinations and options to choose from.
But before you grab one, take a peek at the ingredients. It’s pretty scary.
Food dyes, high fructose corn syrup, additives, chemicals, preservatives, and so many other unhealthy things that were not intended for human consumption.
So, after you put that bottle back, cheer up because it is incredibly easy to make your own clean eating salad dressing (psst – to learn more about clean eating – go here)! It usually only requires a few ingredients that you likely already have in your fridge or pantry.
You can also grab this handy salad dressing jar, which holds your homemade dressing, and has recipes written right on the jar.
15 Clean Eating Salad Dressing Recipes
Below are a few Clean Eating Salad Dressings from my favorite bloggers (images shared, with permission):
Vinegar and Oil Salad Dressing Recipe
by Homemade for Elle
by Little House Living
Lavender and Honey Vinaigrette
by The Kitchen is my Playground
Pomegranate Vinaigrette Dressing
by Annes Entitled Life
by Wondermom Wannabe
Creamy Strawberry Salad Dressing
by Feeding Big
Lemon and Olive Oil Salad Dressing
by Organized 31
by Wondermom Wannabe
Curried Pecans & Maple Cider Dressing
by See Mom Click
by Wondermom Wannabe
by Mama Instincts
15 Clean Eating Salad Dressings
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2 tsp dijon mustard
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp organic sugar cane
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2/3 cup olive oil
Instructions
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Combine all ingredients, other than olive oil, and whisk together until combined. Slowly pour in olive oil, whisking constantly, until fully incorporated. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.
Here are 5 more clean eating salad dressing recipes you’ll love!
- Honey Mustard Vinaigrette by the Betwitchin Kitchen
- Clean Eating French Dressing Recipe by The Gracious Pantry
- Ginger and Carrot Japanese Salad Dressing by The Tomato Tart
- Honey Poppy Seed Salad Dressing by Midget Momma
Looking for more clean eating recipes? I have a month’s worth of clean eating meal plans that are 100% free! Check ’em out:
- Clean Eating Meal Plan – Week 1
- Free Clean Eating Meal Plan – Week 2
- Clean Eating Meal Plan – Week 3
- Clean Eating Meal Plan – Week 4
What is your favorite clean eating salad dressing? Share your recipe in the comments below!
Since I have an opposition to vegetables, salad is not really my type. Indeed, I have never eaten salad “properly” before. However, your recipes make it all the better. Thanks.
I really needed this. Since salads are a daily part of my child, these recipes will help me eat more diverse and tastier. Thanks for sharing with us.
I have never made my own dressing, but now you have convinced me to try it. These sound so good.
I seriously needed your post. I’m usually very simple with my dressing opting for lemon and olive oil. Just love the combination. But I definitely want to try a few of your recommendations.
I love salads that include fruits — nature’s candies! I’m always looking for ways to add more to my salads. They’re usually pretty boring.
When I make salad, I don’t want it to be boring so I always end up making a super unhealthy dressing! This is gonna change thanks to this post!
I should eat more salads but I always find it hard to muster up the enthusiasm. I love the look of the strawberry salad though.
There are so many yummy and healthy dressing in your post! I love the simple oil and lemon one. I usually use olive oil and balsamic vinegar to dress my salads.
I think once you know how to make certain things from scratch, you will never have a store-bought one again. I love salads and eat them all the time.
Glad to bump into this post, I’m currently looking for new salad recipes. Thanks for sharing!
Yum! These recipes look amazing! I am not a fan of store bought dressings so this is perfect! I can’t wait to try some of them!
Thanks for this amazing list! Salad dressing can be so unhealthy!
I had to save this list. I have been looking for new and tasty dressings for my diet.
This looks so healthy and inspiring!! Yum yum!!
Oh these all sound so yummy! I will have to try making some of these.
A great collection of dressing recipes to liven up a salad! Bookmarking for later use!
I really like clean, homemade dressings like this one! will totally follow your recipe.
I love salads very much. I am definitely going to have to give this a try! Thank you so much.
I have not had a salad in a long time. These give me some inspiration for lunch.
Thank you so much for some delicious sounding homemade salad dressings, I am definitely going to have to give this a whirl.
I love salads but I usually buy dressings at the supermarket 🙁
I love homemade esp when it comes to our food, and these recipes will be a big help! ?
Changing my ways, I’m bookmarking these recipes!
Thanks. ?
Thank you for these recipes.
Hi Laura – Thanks for your comment and for bringing this to my attention. I apologize for not having clean eating dressings on this post – I originally had my title as homemade salad dressings, then changed the title and didn’t do an adequate job of vetting the recipes. I have gone through and eliminated the non-clean eating recipes, and added new recipes, so I think you’ll find the list much more representative of clean eating. I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment, and hope you’ll find a recipe here that you love 🙂
Hi Bethany
Thanks for your input! I wrote this post a while ago, and it sounds like I need to revisit the links in the post.
Best,
Andrea
I have to confess that I usually purchase my dressing. After seeing the great dressing you have listed here, I think I will begin to make some from scratch. They are so easy to make and so much better for you. I am really excited to try the Lavender and Honey dressing. I have been cooking with Lavender a lot lately and love it!