Balsamic Salad Dressing
Start with the Balsamic Salad Dressing. If you can get it together the day before that would be good. If not just do it before you start on the salad. Or any time in between. The longer it sits in the fridge getting all of it’s flavors together the better. But it is not an absolute must.
In a smallish mixing bowl start with 1 cup of real good extra virgin olive oil and 1/3 cup good Modena balsamic vinegar. A splash of red wine, pinch of salt, pinch of black pepper, 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice from both halves in to the mix and put the skins in. Add a few fresh basil leaves chopped up or a generous pinch of dried. Whisk it up,
leave the whisk in the bowl and put it in the fridge. Whisk it up a few times while it’s getting it’s stuff together waiting for it’s debut. Balsamic Caesar Salad Dressing goes great with spinach salad. In fact you can also see it included in our spinach salad recipe.
Balsamic Salad Dressing will keep for 2-3 weeks in the fridge. Put it in a jar with a screw on cap or a plastic container with a lid. It’ll settle and separate so shake it or whisk it before you use it again.
It will go with a lot of different foods. Sometimes when I have a little in the fridge and I am cooking some chicken in a skillet I add it to the pan and jazz things up a bit.
Basalmic Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 cup extra virgin olive oil the best you can get
- 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar good "Modena" is the way to go
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese grated
- 1 splash red wine
- 1 lemon
- 3 basil leaves or a generous pinch of dried
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch black pepper
Instructions
- In a smallish mixing bowl start with 1 cup of real good extra virgin olive oil and 1/3 cup good Modena balsamic vinegar. A splash of red wine, pinch of salt, pinch of black pepper, 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese. Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice from both halves in to the mix and put the skins in. Add a few fresh basil leaves chopped up or a generous pinch of dried. Whisk it up, leave the whisk in the bowl and put it in the fridge. Whisk it up a few times while it's getting it's stuff together waiting for it's debut. It goes great with spinach salad. In fact you can also see it included in our spinach salad recipe.
