Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Are you looking for a fresh and flavorful way to elevate your summer salads, or find another use for strawberries besides a dessert? This strawberry balsamic vinaigrette is the perfect blend of sweet, tangy, and savory with a surprising and unexpected ingredient you’ll love. This easy homemade dressing adds a burst of seasonal flavor you won’t find in store-bought bottles. Once you see how easy this is, you’ll make it on repeat!
As a former farmhand, let me tell you I have picked a lot of strawberries! Whether I am pickling or making no-bake desserts with these Summer treasures, creating recipes with fresh ingredients is something I really enjoy. Even better? Sharing these recipes with you!
Whether I’m tossing it with leafy greens, a salad made from market items, or drizzling it over grilled chicken, this dressing is right up there with my basil vinaigrette in terms of a favorite. I think you will love its many uses too.
What You’ll Need For A Lovely Strawberry Balsamic Dressing
This dressing is made with simple ingredients you probably already have on hand. Don’t worry, I’ll be revealing that surprise ingredient I mentioned earlier right here!
Fresh Strawberries
You don’t need very many strawberries for this recipe, and this dressing is a great way to use strawberries that are starting to go soft but have not yet started to spoil.
Balsamic Vinegar
This vinegar is one of my favorites. I even love using it in tomato sauce! Don’t worry about using the fancy expensive kind for this recipe!
Honey
Honey binds the dressing and helps offset the tartness of the balsamic vinegar. A neutral flavored honey is best, such as wildflower or fireweed.
Chive flowers
These little lovelies right here are the secret ingredient I was talking about! They taste just like a chive, and the flavor adds a nice bite without having a strong flavor of onion.
Amy’s Tips For Making The Best Strawberry Vinaigrette Recipe
An immersion blender is definitely the best way to make this dressing. They are a really useful kitchen tool to have around!
The honey and the strawberries don’t need to cook in the saucepan for long, but warming the honey and softening the strawberries really helps the vinaigrette come together, don’t skip this step!
Use the chive flowers if you can find them! They give the dressing a slightly savory note that balances the strawberry’s sweetness.
Chop the strawberries. Soften the honey and strawberries. Blend the dressing together.
This strawberry vinaigrette is proof you don’t need fancy techniques or endless time to eat well. Just fresh ingredients, a little inspiration, and the willingness to try something out!
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Strawberry Balsamic Salad Dressing
Strawberries aren’t just for dessert! This strawberry and white balsamic vinaigrette is great on savory salads as well as fruit salads, with beautiful flavor notes from edible flowers.
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 8 Servings 1x
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Avocado or Sunflower Seed Oil
- 1/4 cup Balsamic Vinegar
- 3 to 4 Strawberries (Medium to Large size)
- 2 Tbsp Honey
- Pinch of Salt (around 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon)
- 4–6 Chive Flowers
Instructions
- Chop the 3 to 4 strawberries. place in a small saucepan with the 2 Tablespoons of honey and heat over medium low heat until the strawberries are soft and the honey has liquified a bit, about 3 to 5 minutes.
- In a tall mason jar, medium sized mixing bowl, or large glass measuring cup combine the 1/4 cup of oil, the 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar, the pinch of salt, and 4-6 chive flowers. Add the strawberries and honey.
- Using an immersion blender (or standard blender), puree until all dressing ingredients are combined. Now you can enjoy this easy vinaigrette!
Notes
Fresh chives can be used if you don’t have or can’t find chive flowers. You won’t need much, maybe a couple of teaspoons of chopped chive. they have a stronger flavor than the flowers so you will want to go easy.
This will keep in your refrigerator in a jar with a well fitting lid for about a week. It’s great on all types of salads!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Additional Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Sauces and Condiments
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 47
- Sugar: 5
- Sodium: 17
- Fat: 3
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 6
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 0
- Cholesterol: 0
Summer salad dressing is super tasty and goes well with my greens
I love anything with white balsamic vinegar, but this strawberry vinaigrette was simply incredible! Perfect for so many different recipes!
this dressing is so good! easy and simple to make too!
I’m glad you liked it Andrea!
I just so happen to have some chives flowers bloom ming right now, Definitely want to give this recipe a try, sounds amazing
I hope you enjoy it Giangi!
A combination of balsamic vinegar and strawberry is heavenly as you said it is. I was suspicious, but it tastes great! Thanks!
I am glad you like it Natalie!