Apple Cider Vinaigrette is a delicious and versatile salad dressing that tastes fantastic on just about any salad. The apple cider vinegar is balanced with just enough sweetness from the honey and a little zing from the mustard and garlic. I love to make “clean out the fridge” salads. I chop up all of the random leftover veggies in the fridge and throw them together with this delicious apple cider vinaigrette.

This dressing tastes fantastic over the Spring Salmon Salad by Alexis Nilsen on page 31 of Jesse Lane Wellness Cookbook Healthy Fresh Salads. Healthy Fresh Salads is packed with creative and delicious salad recipes and contains valuable health information.

It explains why it is important to eat the rainbow, nope not Skittles, but a variety of colourful vegetables. It also covers how to properly clean your veggies and talks about Genetically Modified Organisms and why we should avoid them. I also wrote a chapter with tips and tricks on how to buy fresh produce without spending lots of money.

Healthy Fresh Salads is for you if:

• You want to start making healthier choices for yourself and your family but don’t want to eat boring and tasteless “health food”
• You are looking for great recipes so you can mix things up and not serve the same dishes all the time
• You have lots of picky eaters in your house who say they won’t eat healthy meals
• You follow a gluten-free diet or know someone with celiac who you want to be able to make yummy meals for
• Your biggest barrier to cooking healthy meals is cost because you think fresh produce is expensive.
• You want to learn more about which fruits and vegetables are the healthiest and why

Apple Cider Vinaigrette Recipe by Alexis Nilsen

(gluten-free, paleo, vegetarian, no soy)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2/3 cup walnut oil
• 4 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp grainy mustard
• 2 Tbsp honey
• 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. Throw the Apple Cider Vinaigrette ingredients into a glass jar and shake it up.

NOTE: If you don’t have walnut oil, extra virgin olive oil or any other nut or seed oil will work well.