Salad Dressings

Sara and the other growers used to run a competition to see who could come up with the tastiest dressing to perfectly complement the leaves they were harvesting – and Sara listed the winning recipes on her blog: http://growingtales.wordpress.com/category/dressings/

Ingredients

• Sweet salad dressing for bitter leaves:
• 200ml extra virgin olive oil
• 100ml balsamic vinegar
• Pinch of sea salt
• Ground pepper
• And, the secret ingredient… 1 tablespoon of maple syrup

Method

Annie’s delightful dressing was made up of: a splosh of balsamic vinegar, a double splosh of olive oil, 2 tsp Dijon mustard and 1 tsp blackcurrant & sloe jelly (“or any old jam, to be honest,” said Annie)

Sean’s winning recipe used local honey as a sweetener and included tahini, crushed garlic, a little chilli, salt, pepper, olive oil and lime juice.

Other recipes for sweeter dressings use orange or pineapple juice – or you could sweeten a salad by adding halved grapes or thinly sliced apple.