Today I want to share one of my favorite salad dressing recipes with you. I love Easy Poppy Seed Dressing for a wide variety of reasons. It’s ridiculously versatile, is ready in minutes, and requires only five ingredients. Furthermore, it can easily be modified to be gluten-free.
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Storage
To maintain flavor and freshness, store the dressing in a sealed glass jar and refrigerate it until needed.
Poppy Seeds
Okay, first, let’s talk a second about poppy seeds. According to Wikipedia, poppy seeds are a rich source of thiamin, folate, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, and zinc. (I knew there was a reason why I liked adding poppy seeds to this homemade dressing.)
Can you see the poppy seeds?
Versatile Dressing
I usually drizzle Easy Poppy Seed Dressing on salads, however, this dressing is so adaptable, that I find that it is good for multiple dishes. (One more reason why this recipe is high up on my list of favorites!)
First, drizzle Easy Poppy Seed Dressing over a bowl of fresh fruit, or a pasta salad, or use it as a dressing for coleslaw.
This fabulous dressing can also serve double duty as a sauce for grilled foods. (Think grilled bacon-wrapped new potatoes, fish, or veggies!)
You might also enjoy using it as a sauce for pitas, fajitas, fish tacos or chicken tenders.
In addition, this dressing makes a delicious condiment for sandwiches and rollups.
Easy Poppy Seed Dressing can even be added to homemade egg salad, tuna salad, and chicken salad.
Easy Poppy Seed Dressing
A quick, easy, and delicious dressing recipe.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups mayo {I use canola mayo} (GF Option: use a gluten-free brand)
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar (or more to make dressing as thin as you'd like it)
- 1.5 teaspoons poppy seeds
Instructions
Whisk all ingredients together until well combined. Pour dressing into a glass jar with a lid. Store in refrigerator.
I honestly can not tell you the exact shelf life of Easy Poppy Seed Dressing because I easily use an entire jar within a week or two.
No matter how you serve it, I think you’ll agree that Easy Poppy Seed Dressing is easy to make and truly delightful!
Linda
More great ideas:
Sally Davison says
I buy the family size kale salads and they include 2 packets of poppyseed dressing. It is never enough, with my husband complaining it’s too dry. Today I made this recipe and within 10 minutes I applied it to our kale salad. It was a hit! My husband loved it as well as I did too. I substituted Swerve for the sugar.
Blessed Beyond Crazy says
Hi Sally! Yay! That’s wonderful and we are so happy that you and your husband enjoyed this recipe. We are glad that the Swerve worked as a substitute for the sugar too. Thanks for stopping by and leaving us a nice message. Linda & Anna