Simple and Tasty Salad Dressing Recipes

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to enjoy a diet that is both healthy and delicious. The key to making health-conscious meals that appeal to your taste buds is being innovative and creative. For example, if you're constantly eating boring salads, consider spicing things up with a new dressing. Here are a few simple and tasty salad dressing recipes that you should follow.

Greek Yogurt Ranch

Not only is Greek yogurt ranch healthy, but it also goes very well with a leafy salad. Fortunately, the recipe for Greek yogurt ranch is fairly simple. All you need is whole milk Greek yogurt as the base and garlic powder, dried parsley, dried chives, onion powder, black pepper, Dijon mustard, buttermilk, and salt to turn the yogurt into ranch. If you want a lighter dressing, you can use low-fat Greek yogurt instead of whole milk Greek yogurt. However, you will be sacrificing flavor if you choose low-fat Greek yogurt over whole fat.

The Greek yogurt ranch recipe only calls for a little buttermilk. However, if you're tired of buying large containers of buttermilk and throwing the rest out, you should freeze the buttermilk in cubes. That way, you will always have frozen cubes of buttermilk on hand when you need it for biscuits, dressings, and pancakes.

Chile-Lime Salad Dressing

Another salad dressing recipe you should try is chile-lime. This topping is perfect for loaded taco salad. This salad dressing is spicy, lemony, and bright. The ingredients you will need for chile-lime salad dressing include zest, limes, red wine vinegar, soy sauce, honey, extra virgin olive oil, finely minced clove garlic or garlic powder, red pepper flakes, ground cumin, and salt. The spicier you want the dressing to be, the more red pepper flakes you should add. This dressing is great for not just taco salads but also for bean salads and marinating chicken or shrimp for your tacos.

Undoubtedly, you will not be disappointed if you decide to try out either of these salad dressing recipes. To learn about moving into a new apartment in Phoenix, AZ, don't hesitate to contact us.