Homemade French Dressing Recipe

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Want to make your own homemade French Dressing recipe? This one is so simple and can be made into a traditional or creamy style French Dressing.

Traditional and Creamy Homemade French Dressing Recipes

Homemade French Dressing Recipe

If you’ve been checking out Little House Living for a while, you might know that I love a good dressing recipe. Lettuce is so heartily available in the summer from the garden (and super easy to grow in the house in the winter), so a yummy salad makes a great frugal meal.

Dressings from the store can be full of unwanted and unnecessary ingredients and they can be pretty expensive depending on the brand you like. Lucky for us, there is another option…homemade! Not only are homemade dressing recipes easy, they are frugal, and they taste so fresh! They just can’t be beat!

So far we’ve shared recipes for a Homemade Catalina Salad Dressing recipe, Homemade Dorthy Lynch, Homemade Ranch (and Ranch Dressing Mix), a Russian Salad Dressing recipe, and a very frugal basic Salad Dressing. Today I finally get to share with you our delicious Homemade French Dressing recipe, just in time for spring gardening season!

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Homemade French Dressing Recipe

How to make your own traditional and creamy french dressing!

Course Side Dish
Cuisine French
Keyword Homemade French Dressing REcipe
Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings 1 container

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup Vegetable Oil
  • 1/4 cup Vinegar I used white, but apple cider will probably work
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Ketchup can use Homemade Ketchup
  • 1/2 teaspoon Paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon Celery Seed
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon minced Onion or 1/4 teaspoon Onion Powder

Instructions

  1. Add all of the ingredients to your blender or food processor in the order shown.
  2. Blend for a minute or two until smooth.
  3. Place in a jar or container (a mason jar with a lid is good storage when you aren't using it) and keep in the fridge until ready to serve. Shake before using.

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If you don’t have any from the store, you can substitute the store-bought ketchup in this recipe for Homemade Ketchup. This recipe should be stored in the fridge and will last for at least a week or two. I like to put extras in the freezer and thaw as needed.

I usually just store my homemade dressings in this White Gravy Pitcher. It’s just the right size to work well and it’s so pretty!

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Creamy French Dressing Recipe

You can also make Creamy French Dressing using this same recipe! All you will need to do is add 1/4 cup of heavy cream or half and half to the homemade French Dressing recipe above when you blend it. Both varieties of this dressing are good!

Looking for more homemade salad dressings to make? Here are some recipes I have!

Do you make your own homemade dressing recipes? Which is your favorite to make?

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This Homemade French Dressing Recipe was originally posted on Little House Living in June 2015. It has been updated as of March 2020.

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21 Comments

  1. These recipes sound so good … And just in time for fresh summer salads. Thank you for sharing! 🙂

  2. I loved certain dressings but always had the problem I didn’t get the bottle empty before the expire-date. I discovered hony-mustard-dressing in my mother in laws house; I use it not only for salads but also on cheese on my bread and with raw spinach (since I don’t like cooked spinach.) She used to be an imker=beekeeper and so we always have pots of her homemade honey in the house and I always have French rough mustard in the fridge. I fill an empty glass honey pot with 3/4 parts honey and 1/4 part French mustard and mix it with a teaspoon and voilà my dressing is ready. It keeps OK in the fridge for a half year or longer. You only have to use a little bit to spice up a salad.

  3. It is so strange and I have never done it. I think it is actually delicious and its taste is so different. I love it.

  4. I found a recipe on Pinterest for an avocado-lime-cilantro salad dressing recipe that I make quite often. It’s delicious! I make a jar of it once a week and take it to work so I can have salad every day for lunch. I don’t really like cilantro much so I leave it out. That’s the beauty of making your own salad dressing; you can leave out ingredients you don’t care for!

  5. dressings can make a simple salad so yummy. i tried both these dressing and they are unique.

  6. french dressing is such a popular one among salad lovers, paprika and celery gives this dressing an awesome flavor, loved this recipe.

    1. I’ve been changing up our menu planning and have included making a large pot of soup each week with the leftovers to make lunches or another quick meal. Have been looking forward to spring and the abundance of greens to add more salads as well. This article and the attached recipes is like the missing puzzle piece. I know that adding a rotation of homemade salad dressings will be the perfect compliment to the soup and salad plan.

  7. So yummy! I love the French dressing recipe, and love the Creamy one even much much beter! Dressing is always the best way to have vegetable, I never get bored of it even have it everyday (I wish to actually). Thank you so much for sharing such a great recipe!

  8. Glad I came here. the creamy french dressing of this recipe look so delicious. i can’t resist. thanks Merissa for sharing this yummy and refreshing recipe.

  9. Your French dressing looks so yummy and this recipe is easy to make !!! But, tell me do you know how long it will keep in the fridge?

  10. I can give my own recipe of french dressing :
    3 tablespoons of olive oil
    1 tablespoon of vinegar (wine vinegar is better)
    salt (1/3 of a teaspoon)
    black pepper (1/3 of a teaspoon or less)
    mustard (1 tablespoon)
    1 clove garlic (fresh one) or onion or shallot cut in very small pieces
    mix all
    This is the typical recipe we make in France (my country) for salads. I hope you’ll love it !

  11. We don’t keep this recipe for a long time. In fact, the proportions are juste for one salad. We are used to make a new one everytime we need.
    I hope the size of the spoon is good. Tablespoon : what we use for soup, the big one. Teaspoon : the very small one.

  12. I am French and very seen this in France. We usually make a vinaigrette for salads.Mustard,oil, vinegar salt , pepper.

  13. I never think about making dressing other than a quick salad oil. Thanks for the easy French Dressing recipe.

  14. 5 stars
    I made this the last time that you posted it. I cannot eat onions or garlic and there are no dressings in the store without these. This is delicious. Also tried the dressing from Lawrence and it is delicious.