Italian Dressing Recipe
Once you’ve tasted homemade Italian dressing, you’ll never go back to the bottled stuff. his keeps in the fridge for a couple of months, so it’s easy to keep a batch on hand.
Ingredients
| 1/3 | cup | red wine vinegar |
| 1/2 | teaspoon | Dinon mustard |
| 2 | cloves | crushed garlic |
| 1 | cup | extra virgin olive oil |
| 3/4 | teaspoon | salt |
| 1/2 | teaspoon | freshly ground black pepper |
| 1/2 | teaspoon | red chil flakes |
| 1 | teaspoon | dried basil |
| 1 | teaspoon | dried oregano |
| 1/2 | teaspoon | dried thyme |
Directions
- Whisk the vinegar, Dijon mustard, and crushed garlic together in a mixing bowl.
- Slowly add the oils in a steady stream forming an emulsion. Click How To Prepare an Emulsion for detailed instructions.
- Whisk in the salt, pepper, chili flakes, basil, oregano, and thyme.
- Cover the emulsion with plastic wrap and let sit for severals hours so that the flavors develop.
Preparation Time:
Five minutes plus several hours downtime.
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