Strawberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing is the perfect dressing for this salad. This is my all-time favorite green salad. It is beautiful, delicious, and the strawberry vinaigrette dressing is perfect with it. Best of all, everything in the salad comes straight from my garden. Â
How do I Make the Strawberry Vinaigrette dressing.Â
Berry Vinaigrette dressing follows a basic formula. Start with a berry preserves, Homemade is best (of course). Blueberry raspberry, blackberry, and strawberry are all delicious in a vinaigrette dressing. I make a peach vinaigrette dressing that was sooo good on a salad with slices of chicken bread. Get creative and try different combinations of preserves for the dressing.
What Vinegar Do I Use?Â
To the preserves (jam), I add the balsamic vinegar. A good quality balsamic, but not an expensive one. The expensive vinegar is aged in barrels for more than 12 years. As balsamic vinegar ages, it becomes thicker and sweeter. A 12+ year balsamic vinegar is thick, syrupy, sweet, and delicious. Using the aged vinegar in a dressing results in a sweeter and thicker dressing. If you prefer a pourable dressing, add a few tbsp. of water to thin the dressing to the consistency you like.
I prefer the taste of the vinegar tang in my dressing and use a salad balsamic. This balsamic isn’t aged and has a thin, pourable consistency. If you prefer a sweeter and thicker, salad dressing used this aged vinegar. If you prefer a sweeter strawberry vinaigrette dressing and don’t want to break the bank, use a salad balsamic and sweeten the dressing with 2 – 3 tbsp. of simple syrup.
What Mustard is Best?
A strawberry vinaigrette dressing has four ingredients; strawberries, balsamic vinegar, oil, and mustard. It’s that simple. I have never used prepared mustard, but I think it should work ok. If you don’t have dry mustard powder, use a spicy brown or dijon mustard. Use a teaspoon of the prepared mustard in place of the dry mustard.
What Oil Should I put in the Strawberry Vinaigrette Dressing?Â
I use olive oil for this dressing. However, I have used grapeseed oil, vegetable oil, and sesame oil. It is a matter of preference and what you have in your pantry. Â
What are the Flowers Doing in the Salad? Â
The flowers in this salad are nasturtiums. FYI, capers are the pickled nasturtium buds. Once the flowers develop, they can be picked and put in salads and used as a garnish. They have a spicy flavor and add a pleasant “bite” to a salad.  The flowers are also beautiful as a garnish for a vegetable side dish – green beans,  or on my charred corn salad with roasted veggies, or a tomato and cucumber salad. Â
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Ingredients
- ¼ cup strawberry preserves
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbsp simple syrup
- ¼ tsp dry mustard
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients together in a bowl
- Whisk together to combine. If the consistency is too thick add up to 3 tbsp. of hot water or simple syrup (for a sweeter dressing), until the desired consistency is achieved. Delicious on a green salad with fresh strawberries.
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