Salad-Dressings, Low Fat, Fat Free salad dressing recipes

Salad-Dressings

&

Vinaigrettes

Super Naturally Low Fat

Salad-Dressings

It's occured to us that our Super Salads need some super natural, low fat salad-dressings to accompany them.

So, firstly we'll give you a few of our suggested guidelines for creating low fat and fat free, home made salad dressings.

Then we'll follow up with a number of home made recipes that have worked very well for Marilyn and I.

Most of these low fat and no fat recipes make a salad dressing for two.

Salad dressings are very forgiving and if yours tastes odd, no worries, as it's really easy to fix.

Vinegar Base;

We generally use balsamic vinegar as the base for our salad dressings when the rest of the meal is european-style.

For indian, middle eastern, and asian meals, we use brown rice vinegar, which we get at the local ethnic food store.

Otherwise, you can use apple cider vinegar.

Start with about 1/4 cup of vinegar.

Herbs or Spices;

If you want to use herbs, nothing beats fresh.

Otherwise, dried will have to do.

We like to use herbs and spices traditionally used in the style of cuisine we're preparing.

Add a total of 1/2 to 1 tsp of your herbs and/or spices.

Sweetener;

This is entirely up to you, it just adds another dimension to the salad-dressings.

We like to use a flavorful sweetener, like honey (We've never tried brown rice syrup or malt sweetener, they'd probably be good as well).

Table sugar will add sweetnessto your salad dressings, but, like white vinegar, little flavor (don't forget that you could always use a sugar substitute).

Use about 1/2 tsp of sweetener (Splenda).

Mustard;

This, again, is optional, but a nice touch.

Don't use yellow mustard. lol

Stoneground and Dijon mustards are tasty.

Use sweet, hot mustard in asian-style salad-dressings.

Use about 1 tsp. of prepared mustard.

Water;

This will certainly tone down the salad-dressings a bit, if you like to dump a lot of dressing on your salad.

We generally don't add water, but then we try to drizzle a little dressing over each serving.

The salad-dressings are very flavor saturated, so it'll actually spread over two bowls of salad.

So, in other words, "a little goes a long ways".

Add about 1/4 cup of water if you need to use it.

So click below to find what we are sure will become some of your own fave low fat, fat free, home made salad-dressings and/or vinaigrettes.

Our lists are in alphabetical order and are low fat, no fat salad-dressings and vinaigrettes.

Most everyone likes to add croutons to their salads but firstly the seasoned type are generally high in fat and secondly the store bought kind are very expensive for what you're getting.

Don't you agree?

So, here's how you can make your very own homemade croutons.

Homemade croutons are not only easy to make, they are tastier, since you choose your own favorite seasonings (or no seasoning at all).

Difficulty Level: easy

Time Required: 35 minutes

Here's How;

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

Mix your favorite fresh or dried herbs and spices with 1/4 cup olive oil.

Lightly brush flavored oil on both sides of bread slices.

Stack as many slices as you can cut at one time.

Cut into cubes the size of your choice.

Spread cubes in single layer on large baking sheet.