Rocky Mountain News – Denver, CO, USA
Honey-Lemon Tea Dressing
The trouble with traditional salad dressings is that they’re an easy way to turn a perfectly healthy salad into a calorie-dense, fat-laden disaster.
The key to making delicious healthy dressings at home is to reduce the oils and other fats (though retain enough to preserve a luscious mouth feel) and bump up the ingredients that add texture and flavor.
This honey-lemon tea dressing uses much less oil than traditional recipes and relies on strongly brewed black tea to stretch the volume and provide a mellow flavor that balances the acidity of the lemon juice. And this orange-poppyseed dressing relies on nonfat buttermilk and reduced-fat sour cream for its silky texture.
Honey-Lemon Tea Dressing
Makes about ½-cup
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons strong black tea
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons honey
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
In a small bowl, whisk together the oil, lemon juice, tea, mustard and honey. Season with salt and pepper.
Nutritional information per serving: 49 cal., 5 g fat (1 g sat.), 0 chol., 3 g carb., 118 mg sodium, 0 fiber, 0 pro.
