Cilantro Lime Salad Dressing

We eat a lot of salads, so I’m glad to find a new, really different dressing that we enjoyed. It was a salad for lunch this time, but next time, it’ll be with some shrimp on it as a main course. This is personal taste, but I’ll add more jalapeño in the future. There’s a really good sweet-sour balance between the vinegar-lime which is sweetened by the honey. And I like the nutritional breakdown on this.

6-21-20 ~This was one of the best, most memorable, dressings I’ve made in a very long time. Thank goodness for a couple of things – first, that Hubs was out of town as anything with cilantro must be avoided as far as he’s concerned. Second, that it was the rare occasion I had some ginger on hand. This dressing would never have come to pass without these factors. I have to say that the ginger and the balsamic vinegar kind of threw me here and I questioned how they’d work in a cilantro-lime dressing. It turns out that while neither is boldly evident, they are indispensable ingredients that create a well-balanced, nuanced whole. I made one simple adjustment, reducing the honey by half, to suit my tastes and, for me, that was perfect. I drizzled this over butter lettuce topped with grilled chicken, seasoned simply with salt, pepper and a little garlic powder so as not to compete with this totally fresh and lovely dressing.

This will definitely be one of my go to recipes. So versatile. I drizzled over shredded chicken to make tacos; used when I cooked white rice for cilantro lime rice. The only change I made was to add two, yes 2 bunches of cilantro. I am a cilantro addict but I actually changed the recipe for 30 servings. Overall 2 thumbs up and a high five!

Loved it I’m a huge fan of dressings this is a top