So, I don’t share too many recipes since most of what I create in the kitchen are experiments with recipes found online. On occasion though, I have moments of culinary genius ;)…
Thought I’d share this little recipe since I have been having it for about a week straight and it is sooo good… if you like garlic that is! Even The Man has had THREE kale salads this week with this dressing! Three salads!!… We have to avoid each others kisses in the morning though so don’t know how long we’ll keep this up …
If you’re familiar with Whole Foods organic salad bar – a staple is what they call ‘Garlicky Kale’ (Vegan and RAW) and it is the answer to anyone’s aversion to a kale salad. Their garlicky dressing is delicious, though they use things I don’t have, so I sort of started with what I had – ummm … cold pressed olive oil… and garlic… not exactly filling out the collection of ingredients Whole Foods shared in their ingredient list. I subbed some ingredients ( Soy sauce I had on hand instead of Nama Shoyu) and was generally just grabbing stuff I thought would work out nicely … On the first go of this dressing I didn’t have any lemon, so that’s been left out entirely, but perhaps if I have some in the kitchen next time I make a batch I’ll use it… certainly didn’t have any nutritional yeast but I am familiar with the texture and thought I should throw in something to create a bit of thickness in the dressing – in steps homemade almond flour.
Disclaimer: I enjoy a healthy amount of garlic – The Man is known to eat many cloves RAW when he gets the opportunity – so, please adjust for your own preferences – I think one clove instead of three would still make a fabulous, yet less pungent, morning after.
Garlicky Dressing
Thrown all into the Vitamix – blended on high.
– Three cloves garlic
– Three Tablespoons each of Cold pressed Olive Oil / Soy Sauce (or Nama Shoyu) / Almond Flour (feel free to sub that 🙂
– 3-5 Tablespoons of water
– One fingernail sized sliver of a Chili Pepper
Voila! There you have it! A simple recipe for the average person who doesn’t want to shell out money for Braggs Liguid Aminos or nutritional yeast or whateverhaveyou… I usually can dress two or three large salads with that amount and I just toss it on, give it a quick stir and devour it.
Slightly more potent than Whole Foods version and blender-licking GOOD!
Enjoy!