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Sauces and Dressings — healthy

#EssentialRecipe => Easiest Salad Dressing

 

If there is one thing you should be making from scratch at home, it's salad dressings. They are so simple to prepare and usually, you will have most of the ingredients on hand! To this day, there are still so many awful ingredients hidden in store bought salad dressings. Even the "healthy" ones tend to be loaded with sugar and sodium. 

This recipe is a "go to" in our family. It's so simple. Jake started making her own version when she was 3 (she adds lemon juice in her version). You can tell...


#EssentialRecipe => Miso Sauce

I absolutely love Miso Sauce, but with the quantities that I eat, I find it a bit expensive to buy not to mention the chemicals and preservatives usually added. So I created my own recipe below. Since I make my own vegetable broth with left over vegetables (recipe coming soon) the flavor of this gravy changes all the time, but if you stick with your favorite brand, you will have a consistent taste every time you make it.

 

Ingredients:

-4 Tbsp miso

-4 Tbsp warm water or cashew milk

-2 Tbsp avocado oil

-1/4 Cup almond flour...


#EssentialRecipe => Spring Onion Pesto

This is a different take on pesto and I can't get enough of it. The ingredients look like a Spring day in a blooming garden. Gorgeous and delicious.

Ingredients:

-6 Medium size spring onions

-1 Cup olive oil

-1/2 Avocado

-1/4 Cup plant based parmesan or regular parmesan

-1/2 Cup unsalted pistachios

-1/4 Cup parsley

-2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

-Sea salt and black pepper to taste

Method:

Bring a medium pot of salted water to boil.

Meanwhile prepare a large bowl of ice cold water. Keep it in...


#EssentialRecipe => Classic Béchamel

This year, I decided to finally master the 5 French Mother Sauces. Being French Canadian myself, means I at least know how to make the famous Béchamel. My mom made it all my life, but she didn't like the nutmeg and never added it. I myself love just a little hint of it. 

Béchamel is extremely simple to make and requires only five ingredients, but it does require patience. As soon as you try speeding up is when you will run into clumps. So take your time. With practice, you will learn how thick or thin to...


#EssentialRecipe => Simple Balsamic Dressing on Avocados

Dressing Ingredients:

-1/2 cup olive oil

-1/4 cup balsamic vinegar

-1 Tbsp Peach Hot Sauce (adjust the spiciness to your personal preferences)

-1 tsp honey

-1/8 tsp sea salt

 

Salad Ingredients:

-6 avocados

-Black sesame seeds

Method:

Mix all the salad dressing ingredients together. A used Jonny Hetherington Essentials bottle is perfect. Pour on top of your sliced avocados and sprinkle with the black sesame seeds.

Voila! Spicy balsamic dressing on avocados.