How to make salad dressing in a jar

No whisk needed 🥗

Those of you who’ve been around TNB for a while know that the only sauces permissible in my kitchen are of the homemade variety. This is doubly true for salad dressings. At the risk of sounding too harsh, I find store-bought dressings to be… gross.

I don’t mean to yuck someone’s yum, or to sound like a snob, but they’re just something I’ve never gotten onboard with. Bottled dressings’ goopy texture, slick mouthfeel, and artificial-tasting flavors (even if they’re dubbed “natural” on the label) are the fastest way to ruin a salad, if you ask me. Also, I can almost always taste the unpleasant chemical flavor of the crappy oil they’re made with (which is, after all, the main ingredient of vinaigrette).

Making dressing in a jar is a technique I picked up a while ago and it’s nothing short of a game-changer for – fine, I’ll admit it – dressing snobs like me. You basically put all the ingredients in a jar and shake them up until emulsified. It really is that simple! Once you try this technique, you’ll never go back.

P.S. No time to read now? Pin the recipe for later.

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