Roasted Garlic and Shallot Salad Dressing Recipe
Make your salad sing with this roasted garlic salad dressing recipe! Roasting garlic transforms it from pungent to sweet and creamy. Combine this with the wonderful flavor of roasted shallots, champagne vinegar, lemon juice and Dijon mustard for this easy, homemade salad dressing recipe.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup champagne vinegar
- 1 medium-sized roasted shallot see directions for roasting instructions
- 1 head roasted garlic see directions for roasting instructions
- high-temperature oil for drizzling
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp dijon mustard
- 2 tsp maple syrup
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- salt & pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.
- Place the shallot on one side of a small baking sheet. Drizzle with a high-temp oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Prepare 1 head of garlic by slicing the top off, exposing each of the individual cloves. Place in a small sheet of aluminum foil, with the cut side up. Allow to rest for 10 minutes while the oven preheats. Drizzle with a high-temp oil and wrap fully in the aluminum foil. Place next to the shallot on the baking sheet.
- Roast the shallot and the garlic for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, open the top of the aluminum foil and allow the garlic to brown while the shallot continues to roast. About 20 more minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- Peel the shallot and remove the roasted cloves from their skins.
- Combine the roasted shallot and 6-8 of the roasted garlic cloves with the vinegar, lemon juice, Dijon mustard and maple syrup in a small food processor. Pulse until the shallot and garlic are processed and creamy.
- Stir in the olive oil by hand and season with salt and pepper.
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