Easy Pistachio Butter Salad Dressing

We’re focusing on fresh for this recipe. After a summer full of fun vacation foods, backyard cookouts and one too many treats from the Great Minnesota Get-Together, I’m feeling like it’s time to get back to my regularly scheduled programming at home.

This week’s recipe is an easy and delicious Pistachio Butter Salad Dressing. I’m a big salad person, but I found I was getting a little bored with the classic balsamic and caesar. I also realized recently that a lot of my old favorite store-brand dressing have changed their recipes, and I don’t purchase them anymore. Bummer! So, I tried my hand at making my own dressing with my Nuttinosh pistachio butter!

This dressing is fresh, earthy, and adds the perfect amount of acidity to a salad full of crisp greens and vegetables. This recipe can easily be made for just one serving, or multiplied to keep in the fridge for later. It’s the refresh that my work-week lunch prep definitely needed, so I’m excited to share this recipe with all of you at home!

Let’s Break It Down! Here’s What You Need For The Salad Dressing:

• This dressing recipe uses olive oil as our base. This keeps it light, and lets our pistachio flavor shine.

• Red wine vinegar adds a great acidic note without being too overpowering.

• If you’re a seasoned salad pro, you know how much of a difference that a fresh squeeze of lemon or lime juice can make. And lemon makes a great companion flavor to the pistachio butter!

• I typically will use my Nuttinosh Roasted pistachio butter in this recipe to keep it simple.

• Always add salt and pepper! This brings our flavors out even more.

I never expected my new favorite salad dressing to come from the ingredients already in my kitchen, but I love it! This pistachio butter salad dressing is light, delicious, and criminally easy to make. It’ll be your new favorite too! For an easy to follow video, you can check out our Instagram page here.

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Easy Pistachio Butter Salad Dressing by Anosha Singh

Prep Time: 5 min

Total Time: 5-10 min

Makes approximately 1 cup of dressing.

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil
• ¼ cup red wine vinegar
• 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 tbsp Nuttinosh Roasted Pistachio Butter
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. Start with ¾ cup of extra-virgin olive oil in a large measuring cup. (I recommend using a glass measuring cup with a spouted lip for easy pouring!)
2. Add your red wine vinegar, fresh lemon juice to the olive oil in the measuring cup.
3. Next, add Nuttinosh Roasted Pistachio Butter to your mixture.
4. Give your dressing mixture a strong stir, or use a milk frother to achieve the right consistency for your dressing.
5. Once your dressing is the right consistency, transfer to a bottle or container for easy pouring and storage.
6. Enjoy!
7. This dressing should be stored in an airtight container or bottle, and refrigerated for use up to 3-4 days.

Additional Notes

• Natural separation after storage is totally normal - if your dressing has separated, give it a whisk until it returns to the desired consistency.

• I recommend storing this dressing in a glass container rather than plastic, glass will protect the dressings’ consistency (and be easier to clean!).

Image by Travis Yewell.