Making your own dressings is one of those places where even when you are strapped for time, you can go homemade. You can make enough of this raspberry rose vinegar and salad dressing to last for several months. So you only have to make it once!

The Best Homemade Salad Dressing

What are your go-to salads? Green salad, cucumber salad, fresh corn or tomato salad?

And what about the dressing?

We also make lots of quinoa or potato salads, but truly, no matter what kind of salad you make, doesn’t it really all come down to the dressing?

raspberry rose salad dressing

Go ahead and add a great dressing, and listen to people ooh and aah and sigh when they eat your salad. Do you ever notice squeals of delight when people eat?

After experimenting with hundreds of salad recipes, I am going to go out on a limb and say, I think I’ve figured out the best salad dressing ever. It features raspberry rose vinegar…

Seriously, recently a friend was over for dinner and asked if she could drink this raspberry rose vinaigrette!

raspberry rose vinegar

My blogs, articles videos and classes are focused on supporting all of us to eat more herbs. We can take back control of our food and medicine as a joyful practice of home herbalism.

With all it takes to keep our households going, staying committed to homemade food and medicine sometimes can be a tall order. I am always looking for easy solutions that cover a lot of bases.

Making your own dressings is one of those places where even when you are strapped for time, you can go homemade.

raspberry and rose geranium

Raspberry Rose Vinegar

This homemade salad dressing recipe is simple. However, there is one step you have to do before you make the actual dressing and — of course — this step involves a lot of herbs.

This vinegar features raspberries, rose geranium, and rose petals. It contains antioxidants and is wonderful for the heart and more. (You can find out more about the health benefits of roses here.)

And it’s true, if you skip the olive oil and add seltzer water to this raspberry rose vinegar, it makes a great drink! Now I bet you are curious!

Raspberry Rose Salad Dressing

When you start pulling homemade dressing like this out of the fridge, it is a different vibe. People notice when what they eat is beautiful delicious and homemade.

We are wired to create beautiful healing foods from the harvest. Don’t underestimate the impact of delicious homemade salad dressings!

Can you wrap your head around making your own salad dressing as a cultural influencing act?

Print Recipe
5 from 4 votes

Raspberry Rose Vinegar

Author: Kami McBride

Ingredients

  • 1 cup fresh raspberries
  • 1/2 to 1 cup fresh rose geranium leaf and flower
  • 1/4 cup organic fresh rose petals
  • 3 cups apple cider vinegar

Instructions

  • Put the raspberries, herbs and vinegar in a clean glass jar.
  • Use a plastic lid or cover the jar. If you use a metal lid, cover the jar with wax paper and put the lid on.
  • After a couple of days, check the jar to make sure that the herbs are still submerged in the vinegar. If necessary, top it off with more vinegar.
  • Let infuse in a cool dark place for 1 month and then strain out and discard the berries and herbs.
Print Recipe
5 from 4 votes

Raspberry Rose Salad Dressing

Author: Kami McBride

Ingredients

  • 1 cup olive oil
  • 1/4 cup Raspberry Rose Vinegar
  • 1 tbsp honey

Instructions

  • Mix all the ingredients together and shake well.
  • Store in the refrigerator for up to 6 months.

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