Making your own homemade salad dressings can be easier than you think! This Vegan Green Goddess Dressing is creamy, dreamy, and the perfect mayo free, avocado based dressing for your favorite salad!
Maybe you've seen a bottle in the store with a similar name? Yup, me too. I've bought it before and loved it, so I knew that I had to make my own Vegan Green Goddess dressing from scratch!
Ingredients Needed
Fresh is the name of the game with this dressing!
- Olive Oil - You could also use an avocado oil or a vegetable oil.
- Fresh Greens - The basil, parsley, and green onions need to be fresh. Dried herbs are not a good substitute.
- Ripe Avocados
How to Pick Ripe Avocados
The key is in the stem! Just peel the stem or cap away from the top.
- If the stem doesn't come off - it's not ripe.
- If the stem peels off and it's brown underneath, and it's brown underneath - it's overripe
- If the stem comes off nice and easy and it's green underneath - ding ding ding! It's just right!
Step-by-Step Instructions
- First add garlic to a food processor (This is the one we love!)
- Add everything else but lemon juice and avocado
- Add lemon juice and apple cider vinegar
- Done!
FAQs
No, you could also use a blender - but you definitely need something that'll make it nice and creamy.
You can totally adjust it to your taste - just be sure to add the lemon and vinegar slowly and taste along the way. If you use the full ingredient amounts, it will be nice 'n tangy.
In an airtight container in the fridge, it'll last about 5 days.
Our Other Salad Dressings
Easy Caesar Dressing From Scratch
Enjoy! As always, if you make this recipe or any of my others, I love to hear what you think! Leave a comment below, email me, or you can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!
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Vegan Green Goddess Dressing
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 cup packed avocados 2 small
- 7-8 tbsp water
- 5 tbsp apple cider vinegar to taste
- 3-4 tbsp fresh lemon juice to taste
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup packed fresh basil leaves
- 1/2 cup packed fresh parsley
- 1/2 cup packed green onion dark green part only, not white
- 1 tsp kosher salt or to taste
Instructions
- Add garlic clove to food processor pulse multiple times until well chopped. Add the water, oil, avocado, herbs & onion and process until smooth.
- Then add in the lemon juice and apple cider vinegar slowly, a tablespoon of each at a time, tasting it as you go. The full amount will be tangy, but if that's not your thing, add it to your taste. Finally add in the salt, again a little at a time to taste.
- Serve!
- Store in fridge for up to 5 days in an airtight container.
This looks so fresh and delicious, and I would love one of those bubblies!
Thanks! Oh everything's better with bubbles, isn't it? 😉 Thank you for coming by!
Lovely dressing, it looks so tasty and pretty too. And what a feast you had, complete with candied violets! Thank you for bringing this to Fiesta Friday!
Thank you!!
AH I'm on the lookout for a new salad dressing, I've been having wayyy too much of my Olive Garden knockoff, HA-- thanks for this, looks sooo good!
Ooh yay! I'm not sure how it matches up to the Olive Garden dressing; that stuff is sooooo good! Haha!
Simply gorgeous...I'm going to share this on my Facebook group now!
Aw thank you, Dimple! xo