Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing is a quick way to have a bright taste of the warm weather days any time of year. This dress whips up fast, but it’s brimming with vibrant flavors and wonderful texture from the poppy seeds.
While the world is full of quick convenience shortcuts, salad dressings shouldn’t always be one of them. The gluey shelf-stable condiments gathering dust don’t stand a chance against this sauce, which is made of simple ingredients and tastes leaps and bounds better.
The sauce is super simple. Olive oil, lemon juice, and mustard are the base of this dressing. These three ingredients are added into a bowl alongside honey, poppy seeds, salt, and pepper. All of the ingredients get whisked together vigorously to create an emulsion. You can even use an immersion blender or normal blender to combine the ingredients together. The electronic blending won’t affect the poppy seeds in any weird way.
You can serve the dressing as it, or you can make it ahead of time and serve it later. If you’re serving it ahead of time, pull the dressing out of the refrigerator ten minutes before serving and give it a good stir to incorporate everything a bit better.
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing has been flying under everyone’s radar, especially this homemade version! The lemon’s floral and tart notes are front and center. That tiny addition of honey adds a wonderful fragrant quality and a touch of sweetness to the dressing.
Olive oil and mustard provide the much-needed earth-savory element to the dressing, and the poppy seeds a delightful textural contrast. Poured on top of a salad and this dressing works with all of the salad’s elements by complimenting and not drowning the veggies.
It turns a simple bed of greens into a restaurant-worthy dish. This dressing would go great with a salad, packed with proteins like shrimp or chicken.
It’s a great way to fancy up a dish without forfeiting all of your money. Most of the ingredients are pantry staples and can be fancied up by using higher quality ingredients, but it’s not necessary. Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing takes the simple and turns it into a complex blend of flavors and textures that knows no bounds, it’s versatile, affordable, and quick to make!
Ingredients
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon dijon mustard
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
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