20 Low Calorie Salad Dressing Recipes | Lose Weight by Eating (2024)

These Low Calorie Salad Dressing Recipes will help you make healthy homemade salads flavorful, and easy.

Along with the 20 salad dressings, you’ll find lots of healthy salad recipes too. So you can plan weeks worth of healthy meals quickly and easily!

These healthy homemade dressings can be made in a jar (with a lid) or in a bowl… directions for both have been included.

And I used some fun oils and vinegars to spice things up… all oils are interchangeable. You can even use MCT Oil in these salad dressing recipes!

20 Amazing Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes

Ingredients in Skinny Salad Dressing Recipes

As we noted above, you can interchange the oils you use in these 10 low calorie salad dressing. Here are my favorite healthy oils for salad dressings…

Healthy Oils for Salad Dressing Recipes:

• Olive oil- or Extra Virgin Olive oil for a more peppery taste
• Walnut Oil
• MCT Oil
• Avocado Oil
• Flax Seed Oil

Shopping Lists for Salad Dressing Recipes for Weight Loss:

Honey Mustard Vinaigrette Salad Dressing:

• Honey
• Balsamic vinegar
• Spicy brown mustard
• Salt and pepper

Spicy Mustard VinaigretteSalad Dressing:

• Red wine vinegar- such as zinfandel vinegar
• Lemon juice
• Spicy brown mustard
• 1teaspoonsalt
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Water

Strawberry Citrus Vinaigrette Salad Dressing:

• Strawberries
• Orange juice
• White wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
• Extra virgin olive oil

Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing/Dip:

• 0% Greek Yogurt
• Garlic clove
• Chopped chives
• Dried parsley
• Dried dill
• Salt and pepper
• White vinegar
• Avocado
• Water

Walnut Raspberry Salad Dressing:

• White wine vinegar
• Raspberry jam
• Shallot
• Dijon mustard
• Salt and pepper
• Walnut oil
• Water

Garlic-Ginger Salad Dressing:

• Raspberry vinegar
• Walnut oilor olive oil
• Garlic
• Ginger root
• Salt
• Honey

Garlic Herb Vinaigrette:

• Balsamic vinegar
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Garlic powder
• Dried basil
• Salt and pepper

Skinny Caesar Dressing:

• 0% Greek yogurt
• Water
• Dijon mustard
• Balsamic vinegar
• Lemon juice
• Garlic clove

Greek Style Salad Dressing:

• Capers
• Kalamata olives
• Balsamic vinegar
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• Splash of the Caper Juice
• Pepper

Pomegranate Vinaigrette:

• Balsamic vinegar
• Dijon mustard
• Salt
• Pomegranate juice
• Extra-virgin olive oil

Try out these new Low Calorie Italian Salad Dressing Recipe and Low Calorie Lime Ginger Salad Dressing too!

Special Tip:These are the 10 recipes for low calorie salad dressing that are only in this article. But in the recipe card below you’ll find 10 more recipes for low calorie dressing to choose from. And they all come with their own shopping lists.

How to Make Low Calorie Salad Dressing Recipes

Every time I visit the grocery store I see a minimum of two people staring at rows and rows of preservative filled salad dressings. I want to shout out to them “you already have everything to make salad dressing at home.”

Save yourself money and calories and try these all-natural and delicious salad dressing recipesinstead, and put aside the chemical-filled salad dressings that will stay good for a year.

How to Make a Salad Dressing Recipe in a JAR:

1. Add all of the ingredients to a medium to large jar.
2. Cover tightly and shake for 30-60 seconds.
3. Uncover, taste, add more salt or pepper as needed, and serve.
4. Will hold in the fridge for 4 days.

How to Make Salad Dressing Recipe in a BOWL:

1. Add all the ingredients (except any oil) to a medium bowl. Whisk together until well mixed and thick ingredients dissolved.
2. While whisking, slowly pour the oil to the bowl.
3. Taste, add more salt or pepper as needed, and serve.
4. Move leftovers to a jar or lidded container. Store in the fridge for up to 4 days.

20 Low Calorie Salad Dressing Recipes

Remember real food will go bad and these dressings will last for about a week in your fridge. If need be cut the recipe in half or more to make the appropriate amount.

Here’s my collection of Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes. Change up the recipes to accommodate what you have. For example, switch out orange juice for pomegranate in the Pom Vinaigrette and you have a zesty citrus vinaigrette.

10 Low Calorie Salad Recipes

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Article History:

• Originally written and published on February 20, 2013 by Audrey Johns
• Updated on January 2, 2022 by Audrey Johns
• Updated on March 13, 2023 by Audrey Johns