Garlic salad dressing

Classic recipe for a garlic salad dressing

Here is a classic recipe for a garlic salad dressing that goes well with a wide variety of salads.

· 1/4 cup pure apple cider vinegar

· 1/2 cup olive oil or sunflower seed oil

· 1/2 teaspoon salt

· 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

· one or more cloves of garlic, crushed, chopped or sliced

Shake the first four ingredients together and taste. There should be a nice balance with no one ingredient dominating. Adjust if necessary, and then add the garlic.

Choose a garlic that you like the taste of raw. Spanish Roja is one of my favourites; it is milder and more subtle than many of the others. For some people the hotter the better. For them I might choose Leningrad, which is very pungent. When I have time to let the dressing sit for an hour or so I slice the garlic thinly and let it marinate. The flavour of this dressing changes over time and so I prefer to make it up fresh every day.

When I was testing the recipe for exact quantities I used extra virgin olive oil. I used my garlic press for instant flavour and squished in one large clove of Puslinch. The vinaigrette was so delicious that my husband and I sat down and demolished a plain bowl of iceberg lettuce with this dressing.

«Index of Garlic

«Pasta with garlic and oil

»Cabbage and garlic soup