Italian dressing recipe
This is a real, simple and typical Italian dressing recipe to be easily prepared and added just before eating a classic Italian salad.
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All over the world there are all kinds of salad dressings, and I've also tried some good one: they are available in all sort of taste and colors, from white to red to blue to yellow and there is also the ready-made "Italian dressing". The ready-made sauces however contain many ingredients (just read the packages), added for storage, such as antioxidants, stabilizers, surfactants, preservatives, thickeners, flavor enhancers, artificial colors. What about your health? |
They say it takes 4 people to make Italian salad dressing:
a stingy for vinegar, a wise man for salt, a generous for oil and a crazy man to mix fast.
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Ingedients: • Extra virgin olive oil • White wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar • Salt very little bit • ground pepper to taste Variations and add ons • Lemon juice or apple vinegar instead of wine vinegar • Spices like oregano instead of salt • 1 tea spoon of mustard |
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To make it mix well, put the salt needed (a little) in a small bowl and add a little bit of vinegar (for a large bowl of salad, 1-2 tea spoons are enough), stir to dissolve the salt, pour it over the salad in a bigger bowl, then ground pepper and stir; finally add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil.
If you put the oil first, the vegetables would be covered by a veil and not absorb the others flavors. Made in the proper way, at the bottom of the bowl should not be extra dressing.
The salad should be served with just a little salt (you can even substitute it with spices) but a moderate usage of extra virgin olive is good, because in the salad are present fat-soluble vitamins that without the addition of a small amount of oil would not be absorbed. To further flavor the salad you can use apple cider vinegar which helps to burn fat, or lemon juice, rich in vitamin C and antioxidant, it can detoxify the body and help to absorb the iron in vegetables.
Buon appetito!
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