Italian Style salad dressing.

guido · Site Admin Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 381 Location: Italy

I've run across several recipes sites offering a so called Italian Style Salad Dressing recipes, or using bottled one for different kind of dish.
Being 100% italian, and living in Rome I CAN tell we do not have that kind of dressing.

If you really want a fast easy condiment for your lettuce with tomatoes, or your boiled green beans, all you need is:

1 bottle of TOP quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 bottle of red wine vinegar
sea salt

If you do not like vinegar, use lemon juice.

generously sprinkle your salad with oil, a dash of vinegar or lemon juice, salt to taste.

This is the real Italian way.

Faster then this ............ Wink

Ciao, Guido
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Kate · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

When I saw this forum entry I was not surprised at Guido's comment. Italian style salad dressing is a New York invention I believe. I use it as a base for pasta salads, but make my own. After my first visit to Italy I found that I love just olive oil and sea salt on my salads.
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paulamathers · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

i have found that the italian style dressings we have in england are very bitter, i might have to try making my own the way guido suggests