We love a good balsamic vinaigrette as much as the next steakhouse salad obsessive, but sometimes you want a dressing with a bit more oomph. Below, we’ve collected the creamy, tart, sharp, and nutty ways we love to dress our salads, no matter the season.
Here, you’ll find the vinaigrette we keep in the fridge basically every day of the year—not just for lettuce but also for dressing grains, pasta salads, and roasted vegetables. The ranch we use for a retro iceberg wedge, but also for dipping saucy baked chicken wings and…well, anything else that requires dipping. And so many more salad dressings that’ll turn any bowl of greens into the next big thing.
Ready to level up? We thought so. Here are our best salad dressings.
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Photograph by Isa Zapata, food styling by Judy Kim, prop styling by Beth Pakradooni
Three-Minute Red Wine Vinaigrette
All you need to make this homemade salad dressing is a handful of simple ingredients—extra-virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, and maple syrup—and a mason jar. Use it on our Maple-and-Bacon Fall Chopped Salad.
