Olive Garden Salad Dressing

A dressing that is delicious not only on your Olive Garden salad, but in so many other things– this dressing is versatile! Use it in pasta salad, for chicken bakes, as a marinade. You’ll never run out of opportunities for this dressing, and you’ll be glad you made it! It’s pure alchemy how a few ingredients will come together in a bowl and create endless dishes and flavors. But for starters, put in on a salad, it tastes just like the restaurant.

Ingredients in Olive Garden Salad Dressing

High Quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil Good Seasons Italian Dressing Mix White Wine Vinegar Water Light Corn Syrup Mayonnaise Dijon Mustard Garlic Powder Parmesan Cheese

Making the Classic Olive Garden Salad

Combine fresh romaine lettuce, sliced red onion, tomatoes, medium black olives, pepperoncini peppers, parmesan cheese, and croutons in a large bowl. Toss your ingredients. This will create your salad. Add your dressing and you are ready to enjoy.

Picking a High Quality Olive Oil

Higher quality olive oil tastes better. It tastes like fruit and herbs, from the fresh and perfectly ripe olives it was pressed from. Lower quality oil just tastes like oil, sometimes worse, because it could be rancid or the olives were no longer good when pressed. Look for olive oils in dark glass bottles. This protects the oil from deteriorating in the light, as well as from absorbing the PVC’s from the plastic. Look for extra virgin olive oil when you are shopping. This is a great choice! Also, cold-pressed is a great thing to see when looking for olive oil. This means that the olive oil was made without use of heat or chemicals. Whole Foods has some great options for olive oils. But, you can find a decent olive oil almost anywhere, you just have to look!