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Ingredients for Homemade Vinaigrette Salad Dressing Recipe

Basic ingredients for making a homemade olive oil and vinaigrette salad dressing recipe; find them all in this free video on how to make sauces and dressings.

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Hi! I'm Louis Ortiz on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to show you the basic preparation for a traditional Vinaigrette. Now vinaigrette usually translates into a salad dressing or a finishing sauce of some sort. Most sauces are associated with salads of course. The basic ratio people like to use is 3 parts of oil and 1 part vinegar. I tend to like a little more grineness and a little more bite to my dressing so I usually do 2 parts of oil and 1 part vinegar as far as that goes. Now I've got a little mustard here that I want to mix in with the vinegar first and this is just a D'Jon mustard and this actually helps in the emulsification process and allows kind of a binding agent to take place. So what I am going to start with is I've got some extra virgin oil here and some white wine vinegar and we will do a 3 to 1 ratio so that we can show exactly what we are looking for. That mustard in there will actually give me a little bit more of a bite. So in this instance since I am just making a small batch for demonstration purposes. I am really just going to use a cup worth of oil so I am going to use 1/3 of that for the vinegar. So obviously I am going to fill this to 1/3 and the measuring cups that are graduated on both the outside and inside are quite handy as this one is. So I go 1/3 there and I am going to go ahead and put in just a dab of mustard in here first and we will mix this together and then we will start whisking in our oil. Now again on vinaigrette it runs the gammon as far as seasonings and how you want to flavor these things and there are all kinds of infused oils and all this kind of thing but for today's intense purposes, I just kind of want to show you the basic preparation so that you can take your own ideas from there. That is really what cooking is, you just learn the basic principles and techniques and learn how things work together and in this case, emulsify and then you just take it from there and use whatever seasonings and things you like. So we've got all one color; we've got our vinegar and our mustards together there. I am going to go ahead and add my olive oil; we are going to use a whole cup. I am also going to show you how to do this by hand. The reason being is that we can use a Kitchen Aid mixer and all those other kinds of things and drizzle in as it goes but I find that it is a little easier for people to learn exactly what is going on with the recipe when just have to do it manually from scratch this way without any mechanization. So what we want to do is just drizzle in the olive oil here and as we do that, we will mix. I actually have an olive oil infusers that you can use for this so just a steady stream of oil will go into the bowl which you mix. We will continue this process of just adding it and mixing it slowly so that we achieve all one color and we will come right back and show you the finished product.

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