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Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe or Dijon Vinaigrette



Of course, you could do quite well without a balsamic vinaigrette recipe - there are so many wonderful ones sold ready-to-pour. However, the fresher (have you heard this before?) always tastes better.

If you are feeling truly creative, you can save that beautiful and intriguing bottle and recycle it as a hostess gift filled with a balsamic or Dijon vinaigrette recipe from your own test kitchen. Tie some raffia around the neck for a polished look.

General Tips on Making Your Own Vinaigrettes and Cooked Dressings

No-cook Vinaigrettes Are Easy

Making your own dressings. Those
Are easier than you'd suppose,
Match the oil with the fat
To pull a winner from your hat.

Olive is a complement
To the balsamic condiment
And something else that's really nice
Is sesame when paired with rice.

Nutty oils really sell
The fruity vinegars as well,
A short list, if you care to see
Is apple, currant, raspberry.
These acids marry well, it's true
With walnut, almond, or cashew

Vinaigrette or Cooked Dressing?

Dressings you can mix or cook
The mixed ones seldom need a book
The latter ones are touchy, see,
So learn to use a bain marie.

*Note - a bain marie means to cook something over a pan of simmering water. The phrase itself means "Marie's Bath." One can only speculate about who Marie was and where she did her morning toilette.

*Note - specific cooked dressings are a topic for another day, they involve cooking egg yolks with vinegar (and a few other things) and are a bit more complicated. These are the easier vinaigrettes.

Vinaigrette Tips

Leafy things like vinaigrette.
And those ingredients you get
All their temperatures should be
Hovering near seventy.

Ratio of Acid to Oil in a Vinaigrette

The ratio is one to three
Acidic to the oily
To that mixture add Dijon
2t should make it come along.

*Note: Acids could be vinegars, wines, or citrus (lemon or lime - or how about orange?). To those you may want to experiment by adding your favorite herbs such as tarragon, dill, cilantro, or thyme. Try putting a few garlic cloves on a wooden skewer. Seal this in a glass bottle with a screw cap or a tight-fitting cork and store in the fridge. How charming to present your friend with a balsamic vinaigrette recipe made with love.

A balsamic vinaigrette recipe pours nicely over veggies.

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