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?
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!
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 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?
Check out the video… I think you are going to like this raspberry rose vinegar and salad dressing tutorial and recipe!
Raspberry Rose Vinegar
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.
Raspberry Rose Salad Dressing
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.
This is Awesomeee!
I’m such a salad girl & Yes the dressing is very important!
TY! TY! TY!
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YUMMY!!!
No fresh ingredients here yet. Not sure when to get them when they are in season- don’t have a personal garden with these ingredients. Does it work with dried? Probably not as good, right?
All of my recipes are meant to be played with, go ahead and experiment!
This looks wonderful! I am curious. Is it possible to substitute fresh lemon juice for the ACV? Sometimes ACV is too strong for my stomach, but lemon juice is never a problem for me. Thanks for your input!
All of my recipes are meant to be played with, go ahead and experiment!
You are really great Kamy and so creative!!! Love this recipe, but I have one question: if you put fresh chives would be good to add a blend of raspberries to have a thicker dressing and raspberries’ stronger taste too? I love raspberries that is my problem hehe!! Thank you for all your recipes….. I would love to seat at your table once!!!
Hi! My recipes are meant to inspire you. Please do adjust it to your liking.
Can I use frozen raspberries? I’m really looking forward to trying this recipe but my raspberries won’t be ready for another month.
Thanks for your great information & teaching!
Hi, yes, you can use frozen raspberries…let them thaw first.
Would this recipe work with scented geraniums? For example chocolate
Great you are inspired to make your own salad dressing! With all my blog recipes, they are meant to be played around with depending on what you have access to or on hand. So you could use more roses, more fruit or another edible flower that you like.
I love true herbal recipes
This one is particularly tasty!
Right on! I love how spending a few minutes can bring us beauty and health to enjoy for weeks. So simple that it’s practically child’s play. I loved your reference to the Woodstock song about getting back to the garden. I’ve said it so often, why did we give up control of our food? Look where it’s taken us? Time to get back home and to our community for answers.
Thank you for the recipe. I’ll have to get rose geraniums! Does it work with other types of flower plant?
Great you are inspired to make your own salad dressing! With all my blog recipes, they are meant to be played around with depending on what you have access to or on hand. So you could use more roses, more fruit or another edible flower that you like.
Luv THIS one! I’ll be looking for a few organics today: a rose, a geranium and some raspberries. And you’re right, that really is a particularly happy colour!
Thank you for your lovely mind, and for sharing the wonderful insight that springs from it.
It is a yummy dressing…enjoy!
Kami,
You share the most beautiful and informative recipes. I look forward to giving this one a try. Just recently, I was in the grocery store and saw raspberry dressing on sale. It was tempting until I read the ingredients. Not so healing.
I hope you enjoy it!
I make a dressing with cranberries.
Sounds yummy!
I love this! While I don’t have raspberries right now I do have frozen blackberries (I’m in the Pacific NW). What do you think…will it work? Thanks Kami!
Great idea!
I was also thinking of Blackberries and / or cranberries.
Yes, please think of my recipes as templates for you to explore further!
Kami, thank you so much. Love this and I also love simple, from scratch recipes. I also don’t have Rose Geraniums…..never heard of them. But I love Rosemary and have Rose of Sharon blooming. Wonder if that combination would work. See how you get us to be creative? Thank you.
Ahh, Kami, thank you for this video. Don’t ever underestimate the value of making your own plant medicine. Right?! Such a lovely reminder. You are Right On! This recipe sounds wonderful; I look forward to giving it a go.
Yum! Love this recipe! Im thinking of so many variations too. Thank you!
u la la, thank you Kami, is so beautiful, yes me too I’ll have to do it with dried organic rose.
Thank you for this récipe and video, always great to see you enjoying and creating so*
Thanks Kami, great advise as usual! Can’t wait to make this, it looks beautiful and tasty!
What do you think of substituting rosemary for Rose geranium? I seem to be on a rosemary kick lately. Or, mint? That’s sounds delicious. Just writing this is opening up all kinds of possibilities.
I really enjoy your fun, easy to follow videos. Thanks Kami
Yes! I am all about using what you have!
You had me at “rose geranium”. <3 All are fresh in the garden right now so will try this today. xoxo
Kami,
This looks so divine. I’m going to give this recipe a go, especially before raspberries go out of season. I saw a previous post that using dried flowers are okay. I recently discovered you and have been so pleased with the information and recipes you share. My goal is to incorporate more herbal recipes into my daily life. Thanks for being an inspiration.
Never heard of rose geranium. Where can you find that and what part of the plant do you use?
The plant I use for this recipe is: Pelargonium graveolens
You can find it at most herb nurseries. YOu use the leaf and flower
This recipe sounds really good, will be making up a batch soon. Thank you, Kami, for sharing this recipe with us….
I am excited to try the recipe, but have no idea where to find rose geraniums. I have geraniums in my yard but they look different than what you used. Where do you get it?
Also when I used olive oil in my last homemade dressing it turned into a solid glob in the refrigerator. Have you found a brand that will not solidify?
Hi Connie,
The plant I use for this recipe is: Pelargonium graveolens
It is important to have 100% accurate identification of whatever plant you use.
In my book, The Herbal Kitchen and with all my blog posts, I give the recipe, but if there is an ingredient that you don’t have, you can always leave that ingredient out or substitute it for something else. You could use lavender flowers, lemon verbena or lemon balm instead…
Try Well Sweep Herb Farm, Port Murray, NJ – they have this geranium. Look on their website.
I finally found a rose geranium and had it shipped all the way across the country! Now I will wait for blooms to try the recipe! Still not sure how to keep the olive oil from solidifying!
Just take dressing out of fridge 1/2 hour before using
Hi Kami, Can I use dried rose petals and dried rose geranium?
You can use either of those dried, no problem.