Best Salad Dressing Recipes
1 Week of Easy Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes
Folate is a B-vitamin that helps make DNA and other genetic material, as well as assists in cellular division. Many chronically ill people are lacking in folate or have an inability to process it correctly. Folate, along with B12 are required to make normal red and white blood cells, repair tissues and cells, and synthesize DNA. Both Folate and B12 are nutrients that cannot be produced in the body.
Supplements can only get you so far when it comes to folate (and please, for the love of Pete, DO NOT take folic acid--it can be toxic). It is much better to source folate naturally. Salad is the amazing, wonderful, savior of foods. Green leafy veggies are the heart of every salad, and a great way to get folate into you body. Folate is the key to keeping circulating homocysteine (a common amino acid found naturally in the body) in check.
When I think folate, I think foliage. However, you can have the healthiest salad in the entire world, but if you drizzle or douse it with a store-bought salad dressing, you just killed your salad. Dead. Buh-bye.
Store bought salad dressings are loaded with canola oil. Canola oil is, simply put, VERY, VERY BAD. Putting it on your highly nutritious salad completely negates all the good, nutritiousness and the salad actually becomes toxic. It is best to create your own salad dressings--then you know exactly where the ingredients come from and exactly what is in it.
Enjoy a week's worth of Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes to save the day.
Try these three recipes and enjoy!
Primal Vinaigrette Dressing
This is a great dressing if your following the Paleo, Whole30, Keto, Primal diet. It also includes gut healing bone broth from chicken stock so it packs in the health!
makes 3/4 cup
½ cup chicken broth
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon Dijon or spicy brown mustard
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Place all ingredients in a glass jar and shake vigorously, refrigerate
Primal Italian Dressing
Makes 3/4 cup
½ cup chicken broth
1 clove garlic, crushed or minced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon or spicy brown mustard
½ teaspoon each: dried oregano, basil, paprika, parsley
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Place all ingredients in a jar and shake vigorously, refrigerate
Blue Cheese Dressing
Makes 1 ½ cups
½ cup plain full fat yogurt
¼ cup buttermilk (or sour cream)
2 ounces crumbled blue cheese
3 inches of cucumber, peeled and cut into chunks
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
Place all ingredients in blender, refrigerate
Serve with more blue cheese crumbles on a salad
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