No more boring salads… ever! These easy homemade salad dressing recipes will make you want to scarf a salad every day!
So as I’m sure you can already tell, I’m a bit of a topping fanatic.
I love cheese, nuts, seeds, herbs and sauces with a fiery passion. It’s rare you’ll find a recipe on this blog that isn’t garnished with a pile of my favorites because, in my opinion, life is way too short to eat boring food.
Ice cream is always more fun with sprinkles and salads are WAYA tastier with a pile of mix-ins and a finger-licking dressing!
Dressings hold a special place in my heart because they taste good on just about everything! Whether it’s a jumbo bowl-o-veggies, a entree-turned-salad, a plate of tacos, or even as a dip… I’ll eat it any and every way. I won’t even pretend I don’t lick the mixing bowl when I make them, I totally do!
Before this post turns into another love letter to my food, let’s get our dressing on! I know I’ve already done a round-up of my favorites from the blog, but it wasn’t enough. I needed MORE dressing! [cue mad scientist laugh]
Ready to rock your salads? Let’s kick things off with some tasty dressing recipes!
28 Quick and Easy Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes
1 . Homemade Italian Dressing
This is my favorite dressing to add to veggie packed garden salads and Summery pasta salads! It’s super flavorful and only requires a few pantry staples to make.
2. Homemade Greek Dressing
This easy homemade mediterranean dressing is another favorite around here! We love it on my Greek Kale Salad and Greek Tortellini Salad.
3. Lemon Dressing
Lemon dressing is a speedy, totally easy way to take your salads to the next level with a burst of fresh citrus flavor! We love it on leafy green salads and pasta salad too!
4. Creamy Feta Dressing
This creamy, dreamy dressing is great on salads as well as wraps, pitas, gyros, and more. It also doubles as a dip!
5. Creamy Vegan Avocado Dill Dressing
This scrumptious salad dressing is dreamy, creamy, and gloriously vegan too!
6. Hummus Salsa Dressing
This tasty dressing is from The Roasted Root and has a bonus salad recipe along with it!
7. Homemade Balsamic Dressing
Homemade Balsamic Dressing is quick and easy to make with a few simple pantry staples! It’s healty, dairy-free, and tastier than store bought salad dressing!
8. Chili Lime Dressing
I pair this chili lime dressing with my Mexican Quinoa Salad and it’s nothing short of magical together! A total must-try!
9. Creamy Avocado Vinaigrette
This creamy avocado vinaigrette is healthy, delicious, and ready in under five minutes. Via Wholefully.
9. Blood Orange Dressing
Jazz up your cool-weather salad game with this deliciously easy Blood Orange Dressing made with fresh squeezed orange juice and a few tasty extras!
10. Creamy Herb Dressing
Rich, creamy yogurt pairs with fragrant basil and mint to give this salad dressing a major flavor boost. It’s great on tomato cucumber salad and comes from my friend Liz’s blog – The Lemon Bowl.
11. Maple Citrus Dressing
12. Balsamic Blueberry Salad Dressing
This Balsamic Blueberry Salad Dressing is ready to shake up your Spring and Summer salad game! You’ll want to pour this fruity blueberry dressing on salads all season long!
13. Copycat Olive Garden Dressing
This Copycat Olive Garden Salad Dressing is as close as it gets to the real deal, without the high fructose corn syrup or sketchy ingredients. Recipe via Dessert Now Dinner Later.
14. Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing
My fresh and fruity Blueberry Spinach Salad is tossed with a homemade lemon poppy seed dressing (recipe included!) that is crazy easy to make with just a few tasty ingredients.
15. Sriracha Lime Dressing
This flavorful dressing is quick, easy, and oh so tasty! I love the little zing the sriracha gives it and it’s amazing on fresh spiraled salads and taco salads too!
16. Japanese Carrot Ginger Dressing
This tasty restaurant copycat is via Jeanette’s Healthy Living.
17. Meyer Lemon and Sweet Basil Dressing
Via my friend’s blog, Slim Pickin’s Kitchen – this colorful dressing looks SO TASTY!
18. Coconut Milk Ranch Dressing
Drizzle this Healthy Ranch Dressing on your favorite salad or use it for dipping. You can’t go wrong with this dairy-free version of a classic! Recipe via Wholefully.
19. Apple Cider Vinegar Salad Dressing
Via Healthy Seasonal Recipes. This is a super simple 5 minute recipe for salad dressing using apple cider vinegar from scratch.
20. Copycat Cafe Rio Creamy Cilantro Dressing
This tasty Cafe Rio copycat is from my friend Ari at The Diva Dish. I can’t wait to try it!
21. Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix
Forget those sketchy envelopes of dressing mix. Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix is a snap to make and tastes so much better! Via Stephie Cooks.
22. Homemade Caesar Salad Dressing
his homemade Caesar dressing is hands-down our favorite! It’s thick, creamy, and full of flavor, perfect for a rockin’ Caesar salad.
23. Paleo Ranch Dressing
Ditch the sketchy processed bottled dressing and whip up this super quick, super easy, homemade paleo ranch dressing!
24. Homemade Honey Dijon Vinaigrette
Honey Dijon Vinaigrette. Pair this delicious homemade honey mustard dressing with your favorite salad! We love ours over baby spinach with dried cranberries, sliced almonds, and crumbled feta.
25. Copycat Panera Fuji Apple Chicken Salad Dressing
This Fuji Apple Chicken Salad Dressing recipe is inspired by Panera Bread, but is simple and delicious to make at home! By Gimme Some Oven.
26. Homemade Poppy Seed Ranch Dressing
I whipped up this poppy seed spiked ranch dressing for my famous Broccoli Spinach Salad (recipe along with dressing) and instantly fell in love! It’s super easy to make and tastes great.
27. Creamy Avocado Dressing
LOVE this creamy avocado dressing! I whipped it up to dress my super healthy chopped broccoli cauliflower salad and quickly decided it needed to be slathered on everything in sight.
28. Honey Harissa Dressing
This homemade honey harissa dressing is a crazy easy and totally crave-worthy salad dressing! Full of sweet and savory flavor, this versatile vinaigrette compliments everything from plain green salads to veggie packed cucumber and quinoa bowls.
If you get a chance to try any of these speedy homemade salad dressing recipes, let me know!
Leave some love in the comment form below or tag your photos with @peasandcrayons on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creation! I can’t wait to see what you whip up!
Jen- this is an awesome post! Thanks for sharing all of these links. I usually stick with the same old boring vinegar + oil + cracked pepper dressing. Obviously I need to branch out a little bit!
This is such a brilliant round up! I’m always looking for homemade salad dressing ideas and now I have a bounty of them! Can’t wait to try ’em all!! Thanks for including my hummus action in the mix 😀
this is like salad on crack. GIMME! LOVE dressings, and love YOU!
Dressings are the icing on my greens, and since I plan to eat my body weight in lettuce this summer, this post is perfect.
Love it! So many fabulous dressings…my summer salad season has officially kicked off. Thanks for putting this awesome collection together. 🙂
So many tasty dressings! Thanks for the great round up!
Dressings are healthy cocktails, right?
lol duh!
Thanks so much for sharing my dressing, dear! You’ve officially motivated me to get my salad on 🙂
Any time love! Salad it up!
These all sound awesome! I love making our own dressings because the store bought ones usually have so many preservatives in them.
They’re so much tastier homemade too! <3 Love ya lady!
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuum! Thanks for the link love , lady! I’m eyeballing those hummus dressings the most. They look amazing!
Dooooo it! <3
Ohhhh I’m such a sucker for salads. And of course it’s a requirement that they’re doused with a rockstar dressing 😉 These look AMAZE! Thanks for sharing one of mine!! xoxo
You’re super welcome!