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    The Best Homemade Salad Dressings

    Updated January 12, 2026 / By Holly Erickson & Natalie Mortimer

    Say goodbye to an overcrowded condiment shelf in your fridge by making your own homemade salad dressings. They’re fresh and healthier than store-bought, and so tasty.
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    How To Make Healthy Homemade Salad Dressing From Scratch

    Making healthy homemade salad dressing takes just a few extra moments and a few everyday ingredients, and will add so much to your next salad. You’ll be feeling like a fancy salad bar once you get going with these simple homemade salad dressing recipes. We’ve rounded up our top 10 salad dressings (plus a handful more) that will help bring flair to your homemade pantry game.

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    Tools You’ll Need To Make These Easy Salad Dressing Recipes With Few Ingredients

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    Classic Salad Dressings

    These are our top five classics, a handful of goodies. This is not a comprehensive list of the salad dressing cannon, but the ones you know will always hit the spot. We’ll call these the salad dressing foundation, upon which you can start building once you get these under your belt.

    Creamy Salad Dressings

    We like these dressings because they’re great on salads, but also great drizzled over grain bowls, or as a dip for your next crudité platter. Add these to your repertoire when you’re looking for something to add a little extra oomph.

    Easy Homemade Salad Dressings

    Sometimes we need a dressing we can whisk up in little to no time. These dressings are there for you when you’re hangry, staring into the fridge wondering what you’re going to eat. They’re the dressings that give so much with a very low lift to make. We consider these dressings to be as reliable and effective as a good tube of red lipstick.

    Herb Salad Dressings

    We’re getting fresh with these salad dressings. Full of herbs and tangy bold flavors, a homemade salad dressing with lemon is sure to add sunshine and elicit an audible “yum” when you drizzle it on your next salad party.

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    The Best Homemade Salad Dressings

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    • Kay

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      An amazing list that I will be working my way through, thank you!

      YAY! Hope you love them all as much as we do! Have fun!