I love Olive Garden Salad — don’t you? It’s not the salad so much as it is the dressing. I have been all over the Internet comparing recipes and finally combining a few have come up with the perfect Olive Garden Salad Dressing.
This dressing tastes exactly like what you would get if you went to Olive Garden and had their salad. I now can have this delicious and yummy treat with my dinner anytime I want without leaving the comfort of my own home.
- 8 ounces of any vinegar and oil dressing mix (you can use Paul Newman, Kraft, etc)
- 1 clove of garlic minced
- ½ teaspoon of dried basil
- ½ teaspoon of dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- Put all ingredients into a bowl or bottle and mix together.
- Refrigerate for 24 hours before using
If you want to create a salad like Olive Garden’s, simply use a bagged American blend salad and add in black olives, croutons, tomatoes, red onions, and pepperoncini peppers.
Salads are a great filler when you don’t want to over eat and the best part is, if you put your dressing to the side and just dip your fork in your dressing, you will cut down on the calories majorly (because the dressing is where a lot of your salad calories come from.)
So what is your favorite salad and dressing?
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really nothing can beat Olive Garden’s dressing. nice to make it at home
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Yum! I too love Olive Garden’s salad dressing so thanks for sharing the recipe. Did you know you can ask for the “light” version of the house dressing at Olive Garden…and you can barely tell the difference!!! Its so good and I generally refuse to eat light salad dressings, so that is saying alot!
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I do love Olive Garden’s salad dressing, so I was very pleased to see this recipe! Your version looks delicious. Thank you for sharing it with The Hearth and Soul hop.
Both of my local Walmart’s now stock the REAL Olive Garden dressing!! I saw it pictured in the ad last week & had to check for myself. It’s in a plastic bottle & about $3.50 a bottle. Yay!!
I love Olive Garden’s dressing and will certainly try this. Thanks so much for linking up with “Try a New Recipe Tuesday.” I hope you will be able to join us again this week.
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I will definitely have to share this with my sisters. My mom and sisters go to OliveGarden every Friday.
Can I ask what oil/vinegar dressing you used? I used Kraft and while it tastes ok, I don’t think it compares to Olive Garden. It also doesn’t look like Olive Garden. Thank you!
I used the Paul Newman olive and vinegar dressing but it is really to your liking of how you want it to taste. The Paul Newman tastes the closest
Hope it has less sodium……
Olive Garden’s garden-fresh salad contains 550mg of sodium without dressing and 1,930mg of sodium with the dressing. The grilled chicken Caesar salad contains 1,880mg of sodium. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that Americans consume less than 2,300mg of sodium per day, or approximately 1 tsp of salt. Excessive dietary sodium intake may lead to hypertension and other medical problems. Both the garden-fresh salad with dressing and the grilled chicken Caesar salad make up nearly the entire day’s dietary sodium allowance.
I was wondering when you make the Olive Garden dressing is it just vinegar and oil or do you buy a mixture of it. What did you use for yours? I looked at the Paul Newmans vinegar and oil but it looked like it has seasoning in it. Not sure what to use. If you could get back with me I would appreciate it. Thank you.
The base of the dressing is the Paul Newman Olive Oil and Vinegar dressing. I want to try some different versions, but that is how I make it right now. Just follow the recipe to the tee.