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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Save yourself a few dollars and make this classic salad dressing with ingredients you already have at home!
Why not make your own Worcestershire Sauce for this recipe? It’s also easy to make your own Italian Seasoning. Try this dressing on a Grilled Chicken Salad or even as a sauce for Poached Chicken.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making this dressing will take you 5 minutes or less.
- Variations: As always, you can play with the exact amounts of each ingredient to get the flavours suited to your own personal preference. You can use a no-calorie sweetener in place of the sugar if you need to make this diabetic-friendly. Add some fresh minced garlic instead of garlic powder. Try out different vinegars or even add a bit of horseradish for extra kick.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a blender or just a mason jar with a lid, measuring cups, and measuring spoons.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Oil: Just plain canola or vegetable oil for this one. You could try something like avocado oil or olive il but they may not be neutral enough for the flavours in this dressing.
Vinegar: For this recipe, you’ll likely want to try something with a bit of sweetness, like apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar. You could also try a seasoned rice vinegar. Just taste test the vinegar, oil, and ketchup combination before adding the rest of your ingredients so that you don’t end up with too much salt.
Ketchup: Catalina dressing traditionally has a tomato base, hence the ketchup. If you don’t love ketchup, you can cut back on how much you use or try some other form of tomato.
How To Make Homemade Catalina Dressing
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Mix ingredients in a blender or directly in a jar. Blend/mix until smooth.
- Use on your favourite salad.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Catalina Dressing
Change it Up: This dressing contains the same base ingredients as a Russian dressing. So, if you enjoy Catalina dressing but would like to try something a bit different, all you’ll need is some mayonnaise and some horseradish to make your very own Homemade Russian Dressing. You can even make your own Homemade Mayonnaise if you’d like.
Serving Suggestions: Try this light and zesty vinaigrette on salads that include spring mix, kale, spinach, or romaine lettuce. It would also work well as a glaze or marinade for chicken, pork, or even a mild, white fish. Try using it as the base for a refreshing pasta salad, with some feta or goat cheese crumbled in.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: You can store this dressing in the fridge in a sealed container for up to a week.
Freezer: You should also be able to freeze this dressing for several months, as there aren’t really any ingredients that will react negatively to freezing or thawing.
More Delicious Dressing Recipes
Try one or more of these dressings on your salads:
There you go, everyone. Another tasty and easy dressing to try on your salads. Try out this recipe and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking (Mixing)!
Karlynn
Homemade Catalina Dressing
Ingredients
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup red wine vinegar OR apple cider vinegar
- ½ cup canola oil
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon celery salt
- ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a blender until smooth.
- Keep refrigerated for up to a week.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Dorothy Daves says
can you tell me how to make honey mustard salad dressing.? thanks ahead of time.