Want to take a very decisive step toward health?
Ditch those MSG, rancid vegetable oil, additive filled dressings and sauces from the store and start making your own!
No bottled sauces or dressings compare to the flavor and quality of homemade salad dressings and sauces – even the organic brands. Not only will you be doing your health a huge favor by taking this step, but you will be saving quite a bit of money too!Â
Healthy Salad Dressings and Sauces (video)
I demonstrate 8 recipes in this video below. You will quickly see how fast and easy it is to make these sauces even when a time crunch is part of your normal daily routine. Here is the list of what is covered:
- Basic salad dressing
- Healthy mayonnaise
- Homemade ketchup
- Teriyaki sauce
- Barbecue sauce
- Sweet and sour sauce
- Cocktail sauce
- Thousand Island dressing
The sweet and sour sauce recipe is one of the more popular ones from the video. This is included in a written recipe following the demonstration.
Other recipes to try not covered in the video include a homemade maple kombucha salad dressing, raspberry vinaigrette and homemade honey mustard.
For a complete transcript of this video, please click over to the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Homemade Sweet and Sour Sauce Recipe
Easy recipe for sweet and sour sauce that you can make in minutes to serve with a homecooked chicken dinner. Great for dipping or poured over grilled chicken breasts.
Ingredients
- 1 cup ketchup preferably homemade or organic
- 1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
Instructions
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Mix all the ingredients well in a small glass bowl.
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Serve immediately.
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Refrigerate leftovers.
Recipe Notes
Substitute date syrup instead of maple syrup if a GAPS legal, fruit sweetened dressing is needed.
Be sure the ACV you use comes in glass containers. The acidity of ACV will leach toxins if stored in plastic.
For example, while Bragg raw ACV is excellent, do not buy the gallon size which comes in plastic. Stick with 1 liter glass bottles for this brand.
I don’t have a food processor, much less one which “pulses” (for the mayo)! Also, I can’t stand the taste of olive oil (nor sesame) – so I use avocado oil or grape seed oil for my salad dressings and homemade mayo. Any suggestions on how to make mayo without a food processor? Mine always flops so I’m looking for someone who really knows how to make the stuff. My blender (Cuisinart) has a round rubber top thingy which is removable so I can drizzle the oil that way, but every time I try to make mayo in it, I end up with slop – it never really thickens. My DH doesn’t like real mayo, he likes that crappy Miracle Whip. Any recipes floating around which would taste like that junk?
You could also use a stick/hand blender if you have one, they are pretty inexpensive compared to food processors. Make sure to drizzle the oil very slowly to make it emulsify right, so it gets thick and stays that way. Maybe you could also throw in another egg yolk for good measure. Miracle Whip is slightly sweet so I guess adding sugar would do it–otherwise Google is always the answer when looking for a recipe ;D
Great job!
Thanks so much Kelly! 🙂 There is a lot of work that goes into planning and filming these videos … and the goal is to make it look like the whole thing was a piece of cake which is kind of ironic!
Found your mayo post….I have been using half olive and half coconut, which is very tasty and great for salad dressings, etc. Since we are grainfree I don’t often spread it on anything, just use it in chicken/tuna/salmon salad, as a base for dressings and in dips. I’m going to experiment with adding just a touch of another oil to see if that changes the consistency- thanks for your fantastic posts 🙂
This is great! I love how the recipes build on each other- thanks, Sarah!! And excellent quality video, by the way, really nice!! 🙂 My mayo never turns out that thick…what oil did you use?
I used half sesame and half coconut oil – my current favorite blend.
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My favorite base salad dressing it olive oil, lemon, nama shoyu and raw honey. Can spice it up from there. Simple and good.
Oh, sounds delicious! Are you able to share the proportions of each with us?
Great tips. I’ve been making my own dressings and sauces for years now and the store bought stuff doesn’t even compare when it comes to taste.
I really wish I could print a text version of the recipes. My computer won’t let me see videos so I miss out when that is the only way the information is conveyed. Ocoee
Click on the link to the transcript of the video and the recipes are printed there.
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Thanks for this. My son is really sensitive to dairy and cane sugar. This makes buying organic condiments hard to find because they usually contain sucanat. I will be returning to this video to make all our favorities (ranch dressing). This came at just the right time.