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Simple Zesty Lime Salad Dressing

Use this fresh and delicious Zesty Lime Salad Dressing as a marinade for grilled chicken or seafood, or a dressing for your next salad. So Tasty!

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Zesty lime salad dressing in a dressing jar, with a lime and sliced limes on either side of the jar with a white bowl of spinach salad in the background.

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Why you’ll love this Zesty Lime Salad Dressing

Who buys bottled salad dressing anymore?  I rarely do- maybe a bottle of ranch or blue cheese for a batch of wings, but generally speaking, I make my own homemade salad dressings.  I personally like the bitter flavors of this salad dressing on similarly bitter lettuce, like frisee or radicchio with a little bit of sweet cranberries or candied nuts.  Zesty Lime Salad Dressing can also be used as a marinade for chicken or seafood and a basting sauce for grilled vegetables.

Zesty lime salad dressing in a bottle on a wooden board with white bowl of spinach and cut lime slices

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Ingredients you’ll need to make a Zesty Lime Salad Dressing:

The ingredients for this zesty salad dressing are common pantry staples:

  • Lime juice
  • Dijon mustard
  • Olive oil, extra virgin
  • Rice vinegar
  • Honey
  • Sea salt, and
  • Ground black pepper

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How to make the Zesty Lime Vinaigrette

This simple homemade Kraft copycat zesty lime salad dressing is guaranteed to get you back into the salad making mood again, it really will. I promise it will brighten up any winter blues that might be starting to settle in.

The steps to making this are super easy:

  1. Zest and juice lime into a small bowl.
  2. Whisk in remaining ingredients and refrigerate until ready to use.

Make this Zesty Lime Salad Dressing then check out my Mixed Berry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing Recipe, Easy Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing and Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing and more of my Crazy Good Homemade Salad Dressing Recipes.

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Zesty lime salad dressing in a bottle on a wooden board with white bowl of spinach and cut lime slices

How to store leftover vinaigrette dressing

This homemade vinaigrette must be kept in an airtight container (such as a mason jar) for 1 to 2 weeks in the refrigerator. It’s definitely worth the 5 minutes it takes to make your own salad dressings because you can keep it on hand for all of your salad needs, or use it to marinate chicken later in the week.


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Zesty Lime Salad Dressing Recipe

Yield: 10
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

Use this fresh and delicious Zesty Lime Salad Dressing as a marinade for grilled chicken or seafood, or a dressing for your next salad. So Tasty!

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
  • 1 tsp dijon mustard
  • 1/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
  • 3 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 1 tsp fine sea salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Zest and juice lime into a small bowl.
  2. Whisk in remaining ingredients and refrigerate until ready to use.

Notes

This homemade vinaigrette can be kept in an airtight container (such as a mason jar) for 1 to 2 weeks in the refrigerator. You can keep it on hand for all of your salad needs, or use it to marinate chicken later in the week.

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1 Servings
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 52Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 246mgCarbohydrates: 1gFiber: 0gSugar: 1gProtein: 0g

The provided nutrition information is an estimate and it does not take brands into account. I use an automatic API to calculate this information.

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Zesty lime salad dressing in a dressing jar, with a lime and sliced limes on either side of the jar with a white bowl of spinach salad in the background with text overlay that says: Zesty Lime Salad Dressing.

Deborah @ Confessions of mother runner

Tuesday 23rd of January 2018

It's so easy to whisk up your own healthy dressing. Love the lime in here

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