Greek Yogurt Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing

Name: Creamy Balsamic Greek Yogurt Vinaigrette
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt; 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar; 2 Tablespoons olive oil; 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard; 1 Tablespoon honey; salt & pepper (to taste)

5/29/18

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Just five ingredients and a few seconds to have a tasty and creamy homemade salad dressing to drizzle over your favorite greens.

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Creamy Balsamic Greek Yogurt Vinaigrette

Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing is just as rich and delicious as the creamy salad dressing you get in restaurants or from a bottle, but this healthy salad dressing is made lighter with Greek yogurt. This easy gluten-free salad dressing recipe can be made in a couple minutes with only five ingredients. It proves that homemade salad dressing can be easy, and it will become a new favorite.

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The Greek yogurt and just a bit of olive oil give this healthy homemade salad dressing the rich smoothness of those heavier creamy dressings you get in restaurants or in the grocery store, but it has no preservatives or other funky ingredients, and fewer calories. In fact, you only need five ingredients. Just combine them all and shake it up.This Greek Yogurt Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing will become a kitchen staple.

This post was originally published on November 7, 2013. Updated with new photos on May 1, 2017 and video added on May 29, 2018. The little Baby Smiles is now a big boy and The Bug is an even bigger boy!

I was finally getting back on track. After starting that year with gestational diabetes and a fairly painful pregnancy, once Baby Smiles was born, all I wanted to do was sit on my butt and eat all the sweets that I had to give up due to my very strict diet for the last 10 weeks of my pregnancy.

I had been giving myself all sorts of excuses – Baby Smiles still wasn’t sleeping through the night and I needed my energy; I didn’t have time to exercise because I really really needed to keep up with all of my blog stuff. That sort of thing.

But I started to get back on the bandwagon again. I was getting myself out of bed to exercise a few times a week, or going out for walks when I could. And I was trying to cut down the nighttime sugar binges by shifting my chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie habit to evening instead of having it midday and then having dessert at night.

And while I was at a healthy weight despite a few post-pregnancy pounds that I still hadn’t dropped, I needed to do this to have more energy, to be healthier inside, and to be a good example for my boys. These simple changes made me less lethargic, more productive, and just generally in a better mood. All good things.

The last habit to get back to was my daily salad habit at lunch. This easy gluten-free yogurt salad dressing was a help…