Make juicy blood orange vinaigrette salad dressing with just a few fresh ingredients before the season is over! It's guaranteed to take your next salad to the next level.
And if you enjoy this recipe, you'll love my apple cider vinaigrette with honey!
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❤️ Why You'll Love this Recipe
Seasonal Flavor - Blood oranges have a sweeter, less acidic taste than regular oranges--think navel orange meets raspberry. It's only in season for a few short winter months and adds delicious brightness to this dressing.
Clean Ingredients - Only whole foods and simple grocery stores and farmer's markets in this recipe.
Versatile - Blood orange vinaigrette dressing uses include on savory salads, fruit salads, and even as a marinade for protein. It's great for massaged kale salad!
Homemade salad dressing is one of my top secrets to making better salads at home. Check out this clean dairy-free ranch dressing and easy orange juice vinaigrette, too!
What makes a dressing a vinaigrette?
Combining oil and vinegar is the basic vinaigrette recipe. You can a salad dressing with different acids including citrus juices so not every dressing will have vinegar. This means that while every vinaigrette is a salad dressing, not every salad dressing is a vinaigrette.
What You'll Need for this Recipe
Fresh Blood Orange Juice - This is the perfect salad dressing recipe to make during blood orange season (roughly December to March) and fresh blood oranges give the best flavor and color.
Poppy Seeds add crunch and color to this blood orange poppy seed dressing. It's perfect on a winter greens salad.
Check out the recipe card below for full ingredients list, measurements, nutrition facts, and step-by-step instructions!
Substitutions & Variations
Oil - I make my blood orange vinaigrette with olive oil but you can use the oil of your choosing, including grape seed oil and avocado oil.
Vinegar - Blood orange dressing with apple cider vinegar is chef's kiss. You can also make it with other varieties like champagne vinegar or white vinegar. You can even make blood orange salad dressing with no vinegar--it wouldn't be a vinaigrette, though.
Sweetener - Add maple syrup or another sweetener of your choice to balance the flavor here. Honey ginger syrup is a great substitute!
How to Make
Step One: Add all ingredients to a sealable container.
Step Two: Close the container and shake vigorously to emulsify.
Pro Tip: Use a mason jar or airtight food container for easy storage afterward!
Frequently Asked Questions
You can make the dressing days ahead of time. Be sure to shake it well before serving as separation will occur.
Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator and it will keep for up to two weeks. Allow to come to room temperature before using so that it can be mixed.
You can freeze vinaigrette but it is not recommended as it is likely to separate before freezing and the flavors tend to be muted once thawed. If you need to freeze this blood orange dressing, I recommend first dividing it up into ice cube molds so that it will freeze more quickly (making it less likely to separate) and can be thawed quickly and easily in individual servings.
More Favorite Salad Recipes
I hope you'll upgrade your next salad with my zesty blood orange and olive oil salad dressing soon and very soon. And sharing is caring so be sure to pin this recipe over on Pinterest. Thanks for reading!
📖 Recipe
Blood Orange Vinaigrette Salad Dressing
Equipment
- 1 airtight container
Ingredients
- ½ cup blood orange juice about 2 to 3 fresh blood oranges
- ½ cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 ½ teaspoon poppy seeds
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- sea salt to taste
Instructions
- Add blood orange juice, olive oil, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, poppy seeds, ginger, and sea salt to an airtight container.
- Seal container and shake vigorously to combine.
Shani Whisonant says
Not only did this salad literally brighten my salad with beautiful, bold color, the taste is second to none. This is definitely a family favorite and I'll be using it over and and over and OVER again!
Krysten says
This blood orange vinaigrette is my go-to salad dressing! Not only does it make any salad pretty but it tastes amazing. My favorite is to put it on salmon. Perfect flavors and really easy to make.
Marta says
I had an excess of blood oranges that I bought on sale and this vinaigrette dressing was the perfect recipe to use them in. My salads taste bright and tasty without weighing me down.