Greek Salad Dressing
It’s been an interesting couple of months. I feel like I have been doing some reevaluating regarding my blog and what I desire to post. Nothing major, just thinking through the trajectory of the content that I want to focus on. As I was getting involved in the food blogging world, I started to get excited about building my recipe collection and tried to make it diverse to reach a lot of people and have a little bit of everything. However, I realized recently that some of those goals were coming into conflict with my personal life goals about our own family eating habits. For example, I don’t have a lot of dessert recipes on here, and that is because we really don’t make them that often. We have some we make for celebrations, but we try to eat healthy most of the time, so that is not what first comes to mind when I think of my favorite recipes. We also eat a lot of chicken and turkey, and recently I have started eating a lot of salads for lunch in the summer. It has become one of my treats to myself, because it does require some extra prep work to make it happen. However, when I take the time to chop the veggies ahead of time so they a ready to go, think about a protein that I could add, and make a favorite dressing it makes all the difference and becomes a way I take care of and treat myself. Another thing I like to do is add fruit to my salads. Most others in my family don’t like it, so when we have salad for dinner, I usually skip it; but when I am making it for myself I can add all the fruit I want. So I’ve been making salads that I love all summer for myself, and it’s been great.
This Greek salad dressing is one of my favorites, and is actually one my family loves too! I love making my own salad dressings and marinades. I love being able to control the ingredients and flavors, and it also saves us money as we don’t need to buy a bunch of extra mixes and sauces and maybe not use them all. We can make what we need with what we already have. This dressing is light and fresh and goes great on any green salad. While I do often make a Greek salad to use it on because we enjoy that, we often use it on a simple salad of lettuce, cucumber, tomato and onion, and it’s delicious that way as well. We almost always have this in our fridge!
Greek Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp. coarse black pepper
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice (about 1 lemon)
- 1/2 cup olive oil
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a jar or salad dressing bottle with a lid. Shake well to combine. (You can also whisk together in a small glass measuring cup and then pour into a salad dressing bottle for storage.) I have done both.
- Refrigerate for a few hours to let the flavors develop.
- Take the dressing out of the refrigerator about 10-15 minutes before you are going to use it to allow the olive oil to come to room temperature. (It will solidify in the fridge). You can also run the jar under warm water to help speed this process along if needed.
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