Try This Delicious Low Calorie Homemade Salad Dressing

By Liliana Moyano for Shine Latina

Lemon-Rosemary Vinagrete
Lemon-Rosemary Vinagrete

Greens, fruits, cheese and nuts are the perfect combination for a delicious salad. But even with the right combination of colorful vegetables, what really makes a difference on your greens is a good dressing. The supermarket carries an array of bottled dressings with different attributes, calorie count, organic options, fruit based, and many other characteristics. But the reality is that none of them can compare in taste and calories with this lemon-rosemary based vinaigrette.

Mi madre Hermosa, makes this delicious recipe with lemon, rosemary, olive oil, agave, and a pinch of salt. One cup of this dressing carries about 500 hundred calories leaving each tablespoon at around 30 calories. Generally, the supermarket dressings contain an average of 70-100 calories. For instance, Newman's Own vinaigrette contains 90 calories per serving and 80 of them are from fat. The best thing of this dressing is that the only fat calories are the ones from the olive oil, which is the good fat. This is a must try at home recipe to enjoy with salads, or simply as dipping sauce.

Here we go…

lemon, olive oil and rosemary in the blender
lemon, olive oil and rosemary in the blender


Ingredients

(1 cup)
3 lemons, juiced
4 tbsp. olive oil
4 oz. fresh rosemary
3.5 tbsp. agave or brown sugar
¼ tsp. salt



Try this dish on my crunchy salad...

Directions

Blended vinagrete
Blended vinagrete


Place the lemon-juice, olive oil, rosemary, agave and salt in a blender and mix well. Leave in the fridge for a nice and cooling flavor and enjoy over salads or as dipping sauce.

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