Spice up your next salad with one of these quick and easy salad dressings!

Summer is my favorite time to enjoy a wonderful salad. But after a while, even salads get boring! Spice up your next salad with one these quick and easy salad dressings!

Yesterday I was eating with a dear friend at a local salad bar. It is a place where you pick out your lettuce, your veggies, fruit and nut toppings, protein and cheese, and then they top it off with your choice of salad dressings… and they must have had 30 different dressings to pick from! That got me thinking, salads are mostly all the same, just swiping out different veggies or fruit and toppings, but you can really change the taste and theme of the salad with the type of dressing you choose.

Browse the salad dressing aisle of the grocery store next time you go and you will see hundreds of bottles of “dressing”, filled with mystery ingredients or the promise of No Sugar, Low Fat, No Carb… but when you ready the label of the normal dressings we all grew up with, you will see that they are filled with other ingredients that have no business being in dressing!

Here are 3 of my favorite simple dressing recipes that you can try, plus they all use the wonderful Young Living Vitality Essential oils! What is your favorite salad mix that you will try these dressings on?

Tangy Garlic Basil
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1/4 tsp granulated garlic
1/2 tsp dijon mustard
3 drops YL Vitality basil
2 drops YL Vitality black pepper

Whisk or shake together and pour over your salad of choice

Ningxia Citrus Twist
1/4 cup Ningxia Red
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 drops YL Vitality jade lemon
1 drop YL Vitality grapefruit

Whisk or shake together and pour over your salad of choice!

Asian Maple Orange
2 tbsp toasted sesame oil
1 tbsp maple syrup
2 tsp sherry vinegar
1 tbsp coconut aminos (or lite soy sauce)
2 drops YL Vitality orange
2 drops YL Vitality tangerine

Whisk or shake together and pour over your salad of choice!