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Want to drizzle your salad with something light? Try these homemade healthy salad dressings: all under 50 calories per tablespoon!

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Looking for lighter ways to dress your salad? We’ve got them! Here’s a list of our top healthy salad dressings to try at home: fresh, bright and bursting with flavor! What makes them healthy? These salad dressings are:

  • Homemade with no additives or preservatives. Making dressing at home is healthier than store-bought because it uses high quality ingredients and less extra fats and sugars. It also avoids the preservatives or additives that companies add to make bottles last for years in the refrigerator.
  • Less calories. These healthy salad dressings all have less calories than the typical salad dressing! Most store-bought dressings recipes have about 70 to 80 calories per tablespoon: each of these have less than 50 calories per tablespoon. Ready to get started?

And now…our top healthy salad dressings to try!

More salad dressing recipes

There are so many great homemade salad dressings to try! If you’re looking for a bit of a splurge, here are a few more great dressing recipes:

About the authors

Alex & Sonja

Hi there! We’re Alex & Sonja Overhiser, authors of two cookbooks, busy parents, and a real life couple who cooks together. We founded the A Couple Cooks website in 2010 to share simple, seasonal recipes and the joy of cooking. We now offer thousands of original recipes, cooking tips, and meal planning ideas—all written and photographed by the two of us (and tested on our kids!).

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  1. Barbara says:

    I love all your salads and homemade salad dressings! Everything is better when it is made from scratch!

  2. Sonja Overhiser says:

    Let us know if you have any questions!