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    Healthy Poppy Seed Dressing

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    Salad dressing is often overlooked and yet, this is where our salads gain so much amazing flavor and nutrition! Lightly sweetened and full of poppy seeds, this recipe packs a real punch, while keeping your salad from those weird ingredients found in store bought dressings.

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    Poppy Seed Dressing - Simply the BEST summertime salad dressing recipe!
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    Simply healthy ingredients

    Vegetable or Canola Oil - I like to use canola oil because it's lower in saturated fats, but either will work like a charm.

    Poppy Seed - Poppy seeds add great flavor and crunch to your dressing, but they also contain calcium—good for your bones!

    Shallots - The absolute best onion, in my humble opinion. I love the sweet spice that shallots give this recipe. You can use onion if you don't have any shallots on hand.

    Sugar - You can leave the sugar out or go for a sugar substitute like this monkfruit sweetener (my favorite substitute). Whatever your decision, I will say that a touch of sugar makes this dressing the perfect amount of sweet.

    Lime Juice - This ingredient might be a bit of a surprise for this dressing, but the lime juice offsets the sweet with a touch of tart. It's total perfection! And it's just the right amount, so it doesn't taste overly lime-y.

    Dry Mustard - Did you know that mustard acts as an emulsifier? Dry mustard contains the same components and just a touch will help emulsify this dressing and keep it from immediately separating. Isn't science fun?

    Poppy Seed Dressing - Simply the BEST summertime salad dressing recipe!

    Shake it up!

    The only instruction for this recipe is to combine all ingredients into a container with a lid and SHAKE it up for about 30 seconds.

    So that was easy, yes? And seriously oh so delicious!

    Delicious summer salad with candied spiced pecans, apples, blue cheese and homemade poppy seed dressing. YUM!

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    Poppy Seed Dressing - Simply the BEST summertime salad dressing recipe!

    Poppy Seed Salad Dressing

    Delicious, light and healthy salad dressing full of flavor.
    Servings: 1 Cup
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    Ingredients

    • ½ C vegetable or canola oil
    • 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
    • 1 tablespoon chopped shallots
    • 2 tablespoon sugar
    • 2 tablespoon lime juice plus 1 tsp
    • ½ teaspoon dry mustard
    • ½ teaspoon kosher salt

    Instructions

    • In a jar with a lid, add all ingredients. Shake it up and you're done!
    • Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
    Poppy Seed Dressing - Simply the BEST summertime salad dressing recipe! #poppyseeddressing #saladdressing #summersalad

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