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The dressing that makes you want to eat only salad

green goddess dressing

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: the ultimate salad dressing.

The green fairy is the nickname for absinthe, a creepy drink with so much alcohol that entire generations of artists drank themselves into madness with it. The green goddess is a salad dressing, just as addictive, but without the tendency to cut off your ear. Want to try?

Preparation: 5 min
Preparation: 2 min 
Servings: 10

INGREDIENTS
6 tablespoons mayonnaise
4 tablespoons sour cream
A handful of flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
A handful of tarragon, roughly chopped
2 spring onions, sliced into rings
2 tablespoons lemon juice or lime juice
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1 clove of garlic
1 anchovy fillet
A pinch of cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper

Dressing straight from a bottle on your salad, that’s possible. But once you’ve tried homemade dressing, you can’t go back (except FavorFlavs Sharon because it’s addicted to the Deep Roasted Sesame Dressing from Kewpie). But I find homemade dressing much tastier. And if that homemade dressing is also this ultimate ‘green goddess’, then you’re also just as addicted. The secret: three different green herbs and one anchovy fillet. That tiny fish has been praised before, and rightly so. It doesn’t give the dressing a fishy taste, but umami, and that means a high eat-again factor.

Here’s how to make the green goddess dressing

  • Put all the ingredients in the blender cup and blend until it becomes a smooth dressing. No blender? A stick mixer in a cup works too.
  • You drizzle the dressing over any green salad, but you can also eat it as a dip or stir it into pearl couscous for a meal salad with avocado, pieces of chicken, and cucumber.
  • A jar will keep in the fridge for at least a week.

Source: AllRecipes