Creamy Salad Dressing Recipes

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Creamy Salad Dressing Recipes with Healthy Ingredients

A vegetable salad, lightly tossed with any of these creamy salad dressing recipes is a dieter’s delight. As long as the creamy texture is from yogurt, instead of mayonnaise or sour cream, this type of flavorful salad dressing will not harm your diet.

Green Goddess Salad Dressing

“The Green Goddess” was the most popular play of the 1920-21 season on Broadway. George Arliss, as the Raja of Rukh, was the star of the hit play. He was residing at the grand, Palace Hotel in San Francisco when the executive chef, Philip Roemer, concocted a special salad dressing recipe to honor their celestial resident. The chef based this new salad dressing on the ‘Sauce au Vert’ from the table of French king Louie XIII.

Here is a healthy version of The Green Goddess dressing that is tasty enough for a king;

Ingredients:

2 cups - yogurt, plain
1 cup - scallions, green and white, chopped
1/4 cup - basil, chopped
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
2 tsp - chives, chopped
2 tsp - tarragon, chopped
2 tsp - anchovy paste (or substitute 1 tsp of Worcestershire sauce)
1 tsp - sea salt
1 tsp - black pepper, coarse ground
1 - lemon, juiced

Toss with your favorite salad recipes for the exotic taste of this creamy delicacy. For a very special taste variation cream in one avocado for a delightful homage to The Green Goddess.

Russian Salad Dressing Recipes

Yes, there is more than one recipe for Russian Salad Dressing. I have at least a dozen ‘genuine’ recipes myself. The very first versions from the late 1800’s feature caviar (hence the name). That iconic ingredient was gradually dropped from most of these salad dressings during the 1920’s.

This is a diet-conscious blend of the most flavorful offerings from many Russian salad dressing recipes.

Ingredients:

1 cup - yogurt, plain
1/4 cup - Olive oil
1/4 cup - tomato paste
1 clove - garlic, minced
1 Tbl - caviar
1 tsp - chili powder
1/2 tsp - sea salt
1/2 tsp - black pepper, coarse ground

This will give you a good, basic Russian dressing. There are many common variants that you may want to experiment with;

Anchovies
Bell peppers, minced
Celery, minced
Cream, heavy
Honey
Horseradish
Mustard, dry or Dijon
Onion, grated
Orange juice
Paprika
Parsley
Worcestershire sauce

These wild variations are multiplied by other ingredients frequently found in the earliest versions of this family of creamy salad dressing recipes. Both aspic and gelatin led to translucent, almost clear, varieties of Russian salad dressing.

Thousand Island Salad Dressing

This creamy salad dressing was a feature of ‘shore picnics’ after guided fishing tours in the Thousand Islands region. It passed through a number of illustrious hands before this northern version of a Louisiana salad dressing was presented to the world by Oscar of the Waldorf.

Oscar Tschirky is famous for the fruity Waldorf Salad but it was Sophia Lalonde that originated this popular variant of a Russian dressing.

Ingredients:

1 quart - yogurt, plain
3/4 cup - sweet pickle relish
1/2 cup - black olives, chopped
1/2 cup - red bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup - vinegar
1/4 cup - Worcestershire sauce
3 - eggs, hard-boiled

Blend ingredients thoroughly and refrigerate until used.

Weight Loss Salad Dressings

A suitable substitute for the yogurt in these creamy salad dressing recipes is a low fat (non-fat) mayonnaise or sour cream (or both). This will vary the flavor and texture for even more of a treat to your pallet.

Enjoy your veggies for a longer, healthier life.

After experimenting with these creamy salad dressing recipes try some of the many types of delicious vinaigrettes.