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Fresh, homemade Italian dressing is the perfect way to add flavor to your salads! Our healthy herb mix and oil & vinegar dressing will make your homemade salads extra special. Want to give it a try? Grab the recipe today!

Learn how easy it is to make your own Italian Dressing. So fresh and so easy, this dressing is a best friend to your salads!

Make your own dry herb mix to keep in the cupboard. Then add a small amount of the herb mix to some oil and vinegar for a great homemade dressing.

A glass bottle filled with Italian dressing in front of a salad.

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Childhood favorites

Italian Dressing is the third and final recipe ingredient in the next Childhood Favorites Remade.

Apricot Jam, Onion Soup Mix, and now, Italian Dressing. Have you figured it out yet?

Kind of a weird grouping, I know. But, I tell you it was one of my favorites when I was a kid.

If you want to jump ahead to the end and find out the childhood favorite that I made, here’s the final dish: Italian Apricot Stew or Italian Apricot Chicken.

A small glass jar with dried herbs and spices in it.

Homemade tastes better

We’ve been eating this Italian Dressing all week around here. It’s delicious!

It’s so easy to make your own dressing. No need to rely on store-bought with added stuff you don’t want.

Just keep the dry ingredients in a jar or a bag in your cupboard, and when you want a little salad, just mix the dry stuff into a little oil and vinegar. Voila!

Homemade and super yummy. All those herbs and spices getting all cozy on your leafy salad greens. Just awesome.

I really like all the herbs and spices in this one. Just filled with flavor! And it transforms a simple green salad into something wonderful!

I bottle of Italian dressing in front of a salad.

Serving suggestions

You could even make up the dry ingredients and package up the dry mix with some instructions as a gift for someone.

Serve a simple green salad with this dressing on the side of a meatless meat lasagna for a fantastic dinner!

Close up on a bottle of separated oil and vinegar to make dressing.

Recipe notes

A word of caution! The dry herb mix is supposed to make multiple bottles worth of dressing.

I had a reader one time tell me how horrible it was because there were WAY too many herbs in the dressing. I’m fairly certain that she used ALL the herb mix in on bottle of dressing. Please, please don’t do that! I feel so bad for her, but I didn’t figure it out until later what she probably did.

Make sure you combine 2 tablespoons dry herb mix to ½ cup vinegar and 2/3 cup oil in a dressing container or jar. Oh well, live and learn, I guess.

Make your own Italian Dressing - it's so easy and so fresh. Your salads will LOVE this!

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Homemade Italian Dressing Recipe

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Italian Dressing

Debi
An easy to make homemade herb mix that's easy to make into a delicious salad dressing
4.75 from 8 votes
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course Salad, Sauce
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8 servings
Calories 179 kcal

Ingredients
  

Dry Herb Mix

  • 2 tablespoons dried oregano
  • 1 tablespoon dried parsley
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • ¼ teaspoon dried thyme

Dressing

Instructions
 

Make dry herb mix

  • Combine all dry ingredients in a ziptop bag or jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake well to combine. This may be kept in the cupboard until you're ready to make some dressing.

Make dressing

  • Combine 2 tablespoons dry herb mix to ½ cup vinegar and 2/3 cup oil in a dressing container or jar. Shake or stir well to combine. Serve over salad.

Notes

Recipe makes dry herb mix that can be stored in the cupboard or given as a gift, and can then be added to oil and vinegar for a dressing.
The dry herb mix is intended for multiple uses, and only uses 2 tablespoons of dry mix for each dressing.
Servings may vary depending on how much dressing you use.

Nutrition

Serving: 2tablespoonsCalories: 179kcalCarbohydrates: 4gProtein: 1gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 296mgPotassium: 49mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 40IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 26mgIron: 1mg

Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations, and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.

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Comments

  1. Culinary Ginger

    I never buy salad dressing, there’s no reason when there are so many great recipes like this. Can’t wait to try it, I’m always looking for new recipes.

  3. Kayle (The Cooking Actress)

    YUUUUUMMY! italian dressing was my fave growing up and I love this homemade recipe!

  5. dedezoomsalot900300623

    Love the idea of giving the dry ingredients as a gift. I love making my own dressing.

  6. KC the Kitchen Chopper

    I love making my own dressings and this one looks so yummy. Love all the herbs and spices, plus that little kick of heat. Winner, Debi!

  7. KC the Kitchen Chopper

    You know I love this recipe. All the herbs and spices are just wonderful. I like the idea of giving this as a gift.

  8. shockinglydelicious

    It is so easy to make your own, as you show here, it’s amazing that people still buy their Italian dressing.

  11. mealplanmaven

    I always make my own dressings too but believe it or not, I don’t have an Italian one yet! I now know which dressing I’m whipping up for my Memorial Day BBQ salad! Thanks Debi!

  20. Janice Furtado

    Didn’t make it yet, because of the calorie count! It says 1432 calories per serving!!! Is that the count for the whole recipe or the
    1oz. serving per person? Thanks

4.75 from 8 votes (5 ratings without comment)

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