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So many times, the busyness of everyday life keeps us from being able to stop and enjoy the little things. It’s important to stop and just take it all in some times.
The same thing goes for food. Often times I feel like we make things so much more complicated than they should be. Along the same lines I feel like, for me at least, the simple things are often the best. As silly as it sounds, this dressing is the perfect example. It’s simple, easy, and uncomplicated. It only calls for five ingredients and two of those are salt and pepper. I love sweet and tangy vinaigrettes like this all year round, but especially over a fresh summer salad with berries and some crumbled sharp blue cheese.
And because the dressing is so simple and so easy to make, you’ll have more time to spend with your family and to enjoy those “little things” in life that bring us such great joy.
My friends at NESTEA are all about simple and uncomplicated as well. They truly believe that, just like this dressing, fewer ingredients are often better. That’s why their new real-brewed variety of teas are made with just tea, sugar, citric acid, and water. Having tried all the varieties, I can tell you that the new simpler recipes are a vast improvement. We love the fruit-flavored varieties but are true fans of the new real-brewed iced tea. You can try them, too! Snag a free sample by visiting NESTEA.com.
Recipe Card
Simple Strawberry Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons strawberry jam
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Combine the ingredients in a blender and pulse until well combined. Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
* If nutritional values are provided, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands used. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, I recommend grabbing your favorite brands and plugging those ingredients into an online nutritional calculator.
william
Simple, well rounded, perfect for spinach salad
Thanks, William!
Denise
Did I miss some instructions? Should I have melted the jam? I cannot get the jam to blend in …. It is sinking to the bottom. I blended it a good while. Is is ok to take the whole thing that I tried to blend and heat it up to see if the jam will blend in?
You can certainly melt the jam, but using a blender usually keeps you from having to do that step. I’ve not ever had trouble with the jam steeling like that. Theoretically, you can zap the dressing in the microwave to warm it. Just allow it to cool before using it.
Laurie
This is so marvelous !! I don’t even know how many times I have made it now !! Everytime the container in the fridge gets low I make another batch !! Thanks for this excellant dressing !!
Awesome! Love hearing this!!
Libby
Omg this is the best dressing that I have ever eaten!! I could eat this is cardboard 😂😂
Ha! So glad you love it!
Jonathan Murray
So easy and so good! Only using this recipe from now on to make our own dressing!
Thanks, Jonathan! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Billie
This sounds so good and I assume an orange jam or raspberry, etc, would be great for variation! Can’t wait to try it!
I hope you love it!
Debbie Burford
Stacey I have tried about everything in the last couple of months that you have posted and I have cooked it at home and or shared with friends and my husbands office staff, it all has been wonderful. Thank you for your great recipes . I look forward to what’s going to be next. Debbie
Thank you so much, Debbie! That put a huge smile on my face!
Debi
What can I use if I don’t have a blender? My blender broke and I haven’t replaced it yet. Thanks for sharing.
A larger bowl, a whisk, and some elbow grease will work just fine. 🙂
Celia
Hey Stacey, I love vinaigrette dressing and can’t wait to try this recipe. As lots of others nowadays, I’m watching carbs and calories. Can you tell us how many of each and serving size? If not that’s ok, I’ll still make it and give it a guess for the food journal I keep.
Hi Celia! I don’t share that info because of the various product brands that could be used in the recipe would change the calorie counts, etc. I recommend finding the products you’d use and heading to myfitnesspal.com to calculate them for yourself to make sure they’re accurate.
Jane M.
Stacey, while your wonderful post is regarding a strawberry vinaigrette, I had to let you know I made your recipe for Loaded Baked Potato Salad last week and it was amazing! Baking the potato chunks prevented them from crumbling (unlike boiled potatoes) when mixing in the mayo, sour cream, etc. As soon as I pick up another bag of russets (don’t like the taste of red potatoes), I will make another batch. Thank you!
That’s fantastic, Jane! I’m so glad you enjoyed the potato salad! I’ve started doing my potatoes like that more often and think it really adds a new depth of flavor.
Nana
It’s called -stop and smell the roses, only in this case it’s strawberries.
Yes! Exactly. 🙂