How to make mustard salad dressing?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Today in this article you can learn how to prepare mustard dressing for salads. In fact, there are a lot of different options for sauces, here you will see a selection of the most delicious and simple recipes.

Many housewives believe that mustard dressing can only spice up a salad, but this assumption is wrong. The thing is that there are many varieties of it. One dressing will be able to give a sweet taste, another - uniquely delicate, and the third - spicy. Now you will see it.

Greek dressing

Mustard salad dressing, which will be discussed in this section, goes well with meat and fish dishes, with pasta and vegetables. In addition, the classic Greek dressing is used by housewives as a marinade.

To prepare it, take two cloves of garlic, a little mustard (two tablespoons will be enough), half a glass of olive oil, four teaspoons of lemon juice, half a teaspoon of sugar and five tablespoons of wine vinegar. In addition to these ingredients, you can add a little s alt, basil andoregano.

Mix all the ingredients until smooth, and the dressing is ready. Be sure to transfer the sauce to a jar with a tight lid and refrigerate as it will keep for up to two weeks.

Honey dressing

Now we will give you another recipe for mustard salad dressing. Please note that this sauce is suitable for vegetables and herbs.

Ingredients

Product	Quantity
Balsamic Vinegar	two tablespoons
Honey	one tablespoon
Lemon juice	half tablespoon
Mustard	one tablespoon
Olive oil	a quarter cup
S alt	to taste
Pepper	to taste

Whip all ingredients together except s alt and pepper. They should be added at the very end of cooking. Unforgettable tender salad dressing is ready!

Mustard-honey dressing

This section will give you two options for honey mustard salad dressing. The first of them is universal, in which you can notice an excellent combination of spicy mustard with other ingredients. Don't forget that mustard goes very well with greens, which can be a good option for a marinade.

Pass one clove of garlic through the press, you can just chop it with a knife. Pour two teaspoons into the resulting slurrywhite wine vinegar, the same amount of grain mustard, two tablespoons of liquid honey and olive oil. After all the ingredients are well mixed together, add s alt and pepper to your taste.

Another honey dressing option:

• four teaspoons of balsamic vinegar;
• two teaspoons of honey;
• teaspoon of lemon juice;
• two teaspoons of mustard;
• a quarter cup of olive oil;
• s alt and pepper to taste.

Do not forget to mix all the ingredients well, it is better to do it with a whisk. You can add any greens to this mustard salad dressing. The taste of vegetable salad will become special thanks to honey and mustard.

Universal Sauce

In this section, we will show you how to make a delicious dressing for a Greek salad with mustard powder (can be replaced with regular mustard). This sauce is very easy to prepare, which makes it quite popular. Nevertheless, it is not inferior in taste to other dressings.

So, to prepare it, we need to measure and pour twenty milliliters of clean water into a saucepan. It is better to use dishes with a double bottom, so the sauce will stick to the bottom less and heat evenly. We put the pot on the fire. Immediately add one tablespoon of regular sugar. Now we need to prepare a sweet syrup. Stirring constantly, bring the water to a boil. As soon as bubbles begin to form on the surface,pour the syrup into a bowl and let it cool.

If you use mustard powder, then it must be added to warm syrup so that it dissolves. We will do otherwise, because real mustard has a more pleasant and rich taste. We wait for the syrup to cool and add two tablespoons of mayonnaise and the same amount of mustard into it. All this is well mixed. The sauce is ready, it remains only to season the salad.

French version

Many mistakenly believe that mayonnaise is the traditional French salad dressing. We hasten to disappoint you, because it is not so. The French most often use honey, vegetable oil and lime or lemon juice to make the sauce. The sauce recipe in this section is perfect for any vegetable salad.

But now we're going to show you how to make French-style mustard dressing using mustard. This version is slightly spicier than the traditional French dressing, as we can find mustard and garlic in the composition.

So, to prepare this masterpiece we need:

• dessert spoon of honey (preferably liquid);
• a little vegetable oil (one tablespoon);
• four teaspoons of lemon juice;
• half a teaspoon of mustard;
• a small clove of garlic;
• any greens (parsley and dill are better).

Start cooking by dissolving honey in lemon juice. Mix the two components very well until smooth. Onlyafter that, you can add mustard and vegetable oil. Again, mix everything well, add chopped garlic (it is better to pass it through a press, for lack of such an opportunity, just chop finely) and finely chopped greens. Please note that the dressing needs to brew a little, five to ten minutes will be enough. Now season the salad.

Cream Dressing

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Why did we call it creamy? Everything is very simple, the composition includes yogurt, which helps to achieve this texture. This unusual ingredient goes very well with spicy mustard.

For cooking, we need to mix the following ingredients:

• one hundred milliliters of natural yogurt;
• two dessert spoons of mustard;
• three dessert spoons of runny honey;
• half a tablespoon of lemon juice;
• half a teaspoon of dried garlic;
• s alt and pepper to your taste.

Besides salad dressing, cream sauce is a good addition to chicken dishes.

Original version

Now another oil-mustard salad dressing that's great for Caesar salad dressing. This sauce will be a godsend for gourmets. Let's try to cook it together.

In a cooking bowl, mix two components until smooth, namely, one hundred milliliters of olive oil and three tablespoons of lemon juice (the last ingredient can be replaced with lime juice, which also fits perfectly into this recipe). In a pan, we need to fry (necessarily in olive oil) one hundred and fifty grams of tofu cheese and chopped garlic clove. At this stage, you can add any spices to your taste, do not forget about s alt and pepper. Next, load everything into a blender, add two tablespoons of mustard, mix everything well, and the sauce is ready.

Orange with mustard

Don't let this unusual combination scare you, because the sauce, thanks to the addition of orange, becomes fresher and more fragrant.

For cooking we need:

• half a glass of balsamic vinegar;
• two thirds of a glass of olive oil;
• one orange;
• two tablespoons of grain mustard.

First, we need to squeeze the juice from an orange. Next, in a bowl, mix the balsamic vinegar with olive oil until smooth. It is better to mix everything with a whisk. In the resulting mass, add the juice of one orange, two tablespoons of zest and grain mustard. We shake everythingthe sauce is now ready to serve.

Caesar sauce

This mustard salad dressing goes well with any salad.

We need to make garlic paste with s alt. To do this, grind a clove of garlic with the addition of a teaspoon of s alt. Add tsp to the resulting slurry. mustard, raw yolk of one chicken egg and a tablespoon of lemon juice. All this is well mixed until smooth. Measure out one teaspoon of red wine vinegar and add to the mixture, stir.

At the same time, stir and pour fifty milliliters of olive oil in a thin stream. Only after all of the above can you add one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce and four drops of Tabasco. After mixing well, add black pepper to your taste. The resulting sauce is left to infuse for five to ten minutes.