A healthy and refreshing dressing that works perfectly with any salad recipe, and only takes a few ingredients to enhance the flavor of any salad! I love adding this to my Winter Citrus Salad.
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There is nothing like wanting to make a healthy choice for lunch or dinner by choosing a salad, only to find yourself unable to stand it because all you taste is kale and lettuce! If you're looking for an easy way to make a truly delicious one-of-a-kind salad you'll want seconds of, this dressing is the one you've got to try!
❤️ Why You'll Love Our Recipe
- It's a great healthy low-calorie salad dressing.
- It's creamy and can be made so easily!
- It's perfect for any light and fresh salad recipe.
🧂 Ingredients
- medium fresh orange - I like to use navel oranges
- sherry vinegar or cider vinegar
- sugar
- Dijon-style mustard
- ground black pepper
- vegetable oil
- poppy seeds
This is meant to be a brief overview of the homemade poppyseed dressing recipe. For step-by-step instructions and a full printable recipe card with ingredients, please scroll down to the teal box below.
🔪Instructions
- Zest the orange and add it to a mixing bowl.
- Next, juice the orange into the bowl.
- Then add in the sherry vinegar or cider vinegar, sugar, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper, and poppy seeds.
- Whisk the ingredients together while drizzling in the olive oil.
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⏲️ Storage
Orange Poppy Seed Dressing stored in the refrigerator for 4-5 days in an airtight container, such as a mason jar. I almost always store my Lemon Mustard Vinaigrette and Avocado Ranch Dressing in mason jars.
⭐ Tips
- Before cutting the orange in half, roll it on the countertop or cutting board, pushing it down slightly. This will help you get more juice out of the orange.
- Normally oil doesn't mix well with juices or vinegar, so you'll need to create an emulsion. Drizzle the oil into the bowl while whisking quickly to emulsify the dressing.
💭 Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some questions (and answers!) readers often ask about this Orange Salad Dressing recipe.
This dressing is made with orange, sherry vinegar, sugar, dijon-style, black pepper, vegetable oil, and poppy seeds.
Poppy seeds are safe to eat when taken in amounts commonly found in food.
Instead of poppy seeds, use toasted sesame seeds or black sesame seeds.
Both come from the poppy plant, of course, but the white poppy seeds have a more mild flavor than the black.
📖 Variations
We recommend that you try our recipe for the first time just as it is written for the best results because that is how the recipe has been tested.
However, the next time you make our orange poppy seed dressing recipe, you might consider one of these different ways of making this great recipe.
- For a slightly sweeter dressing, whisk in 1 tablespoon of honey or agave syrup.
- If you do not have sherry vinegar or cider vinegar on hand, you can use white vinegar.
- Substitute olive oil for vegetable oil but be aware that it has a stronger flavor. A milder oil such as canola or soybean oil will allow the orange and poppy seed flavors to shine through more.
- Add a small shallot or minced fresh garlic clove for a more savory flavor.
🍴 Serving Suggestions
This salad dressing would taste delicious on any number of salads, but my personal choices would be this Mandarin orange chicken salad, or spinach salad with strawberries and thinly sliced red onion.
It's not just for a leafy green salad, either. You can also use it on this delicious wild rice salad, pasta salad, or strawberry fruit salad.
😋 Similar Recipes
Next time, try one of these tasty recipes:
- Lemon Vinaigrette Salad Dressing is so easy and full of flavor, and it's healthy too.
- Pomegranate Vinaigrette is a flavorful and fun dressing that is festive and tasty too.
- Creamy Caesar Salad Dressing is perfect for Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad but great for marinades, dips, and our one-pan Chicken Caesar Pasta.
- For a dressing with a kick, try our Homemade Southwest Salad Dressing.
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Orange Poppy Seed Dressing
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Ingredients
- ⅓ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 3 tablespoons cider vinegar sherry vinegar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 1 Dash ground black pepper
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
Instructions
- Zest the orange and add it to a mixing bowl.⅓ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- Next, juice the orange intro the bowl.
- Then add in the sherry vinegar or cider vinegar, sugar, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper and poppy seeds.3 tablespoons cider vinegar, 2 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, 1 Dash ground black pepper, 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
- Whisk the ingredients together while drizzling in the oil.⅓ cup vegetable oil
Equipment
- Juicer
Notes
📖 Variations
We recommend that you try our recipe for the first time just as it is written for the best results because that is how the recipe has been tested. However, the next time you make it, you might consider one of these different ways of making this great recipe.- For a slightly sweeter dressing, whisk in 1 tablespoon of honey or agave syrup.
- Substitute olive oil for vegetable oil but be aware that it has a stronger flavor. A milder oil such as canola or soybean oil will allow the orange and poppy seed flavors to shine through more.
- Add a small shallot or minced fresh garlic clove for a more savory flavor.
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