This Maple Vinaigrette Tastes amazing!! It’s Sweet, tangy, and perfect to go on top of any salad! Plus, It comes together in a flash!
Spring has officially arrived!! And that means that our markets will filled with beautiful vegetables, fresh green leaves, and colorful fruits. Spring is really the time to eat with our eyes, with all those beauties at our whim. I’m planning not only to feed my tummy, but my eyes. I can’t wait to grab my camera, visit local farms, and snap away. Can you tell I love this time of the year?
With the amazing produces spring brings, one of the best ways to enjoy it is with a fresh salad. So let’s talk salad.
What is the difference between a boring salad and an amazing one?
THE DRESSING!!!
This Maple Vinaigrette is anything but boring!!! I love it. It has just the right amount of sweetness to curb the flavor of the vinegar and lemon, and it’s super easy to make. It literally takes under a minute to make.
I don’t usually buy store-bought salad dressings. I think that nothing beats whipping up a fresh batch of homemade dressing just the way you like it and controlling what goes in it. Plus, it tastes 100x better with fresh ingredients.
You can use this dressing on just about any salad you can imagine but in my next post I will be dressing my Copycat Chicken fil A Superfood salad – my latest obsession – with this Maple Vinaigrette.
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- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup (preferably Grade B)
- 2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt ,or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper ,or to taste
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Whisk together olive oil, maple syrup, cider vinegar, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Season dressing with salt and pepper; whisk until the dressing is well blended.
The vinaigrette can be prepared ahead and refrigerated, in an airtight container, up to 3 days.
Love, love, love maple syrup, and now you are telling me I can put it on my salad!? Yes please! This looks fantastic and I can’t wait to try it.
Thanks so much Tracy!!
I could eat this with a spoon, maple is one of my favorite flavors, and I love the idea of carrying it beyond the holidays like this!
You’ll love this vinaigrette! Thanks for your comment, Sue.
I’ve never tried maple syrup in a salad dressing, but it sounds like an amazing idea! I will definitely give it a try!
Please try it, Tania! Let me know what you think.
I love making dressings at home — it’s so easy! I’ve never tried one with maple syrup – this sounds delicious & can’t wait to try it!
It’s really good!! I hope you give it a try. Thanks for stopping by.
Homemade vinaigrette is the best kind for any salad. Love the simplicity of the recipe. Yum.
Thanks Ali!!
Such a beautiful golden color! I agree with you about homemade dressings! Since I started making them I have a hard time using store bought-they are too heavy.
This dressing is really yummy! I made it to accompany the Chick-fil-A salad, but since it made extra I’ve also been enjoying the dressing on a salad of baby spinach, dried cherries, walnuts, feta, and avocado. Thanks for the great recipe!
I also like to make extra to keep it on hand!! Thanks so much for your comment, Yvonne.
Love this dressing! How do you keep the oil from coagulating?
Hello Lili – when using a good quality olive oil is imposible keeping it from coagulating.Just take the vinaigrette out of the fridge about 20 minutes or so before you need to to bring it back up to room temperature. Other oils like canola oil don’t solidify, so if you’re looking for a vinaigrette to use straight from the fridge, switch up olive oil for canola oil.
I just had this salad in Houston Chick Filet this last week. I loved it! I look on the computer your recipe seemed like it would be the closest. One question one serving is 3/4 cup can you tell me the calorie count please?
Thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Robin, I’m sorry, I don’t provide nutritional information for any of my recipes because I am not a nutritionist so I have no way of guaranteeing it’s 100% accurate 🙂 Please feel free to run my recipe through a nutrition calculator like myfitnesspal.com. Thanks for stopping by!
This is the website where you can calculate the nutritional content. I’m not a scientist so I cannot swear by ithttp://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator
Thank you so much for putting the recipe for the salad and dressing! I ate this salad at Chic-fil-a for the first time this week and fell in love with it! I’m so happy to have found your website and the recipes. Thank you!!
Hello Sondra! I’m so happy you are here 😊 Thanks so much for your kind comment. Hope you enjoy the salad… It’s my favorite 😉
Oriana thank you for the recipe, it’s perfect. As a lover of Chickfilla coleslaw salad I was devastated when they took it out of their menu, but now my heart belongs to the superfood salad! Muchas gracias de una compatriota con mas de 25 años en este hermoso pais!
Thanks so much for you comment, Raquel!! Hope you give a try soon… te va a encantar 😉
Good afternoon, I am so very glad I came upon your site. My husband is a truck driver and every other week he gets down to Texas, well, with my kids being on Christmas break at home, and Mimi being gracious to watch them for us, I came with him this week to Texas. Last night we went to chick fill a for dinner and, wouldn’t ya know, I also had the large superfood salad. Let me say, it was amazing, as is the dressing. Being I’m on a funky dietary umph, for lack of a better term, salads are one of my go to foods and to see the diy salad and dressing here, my best friend. Thank you thank you thank you, I will be making this regularly. Happy New year from me and mine to you and yours.
I tried that superfood side at chic fill a today and loved it so much I had to find the dressing recipe, thank you so much for your research I know I’ll love it. To me kale has such a strong taste and this dressing disguises it perfectly!!! Thank you again.
What maple syrup do you use
Hello Beth, I use Trader Joe’s Organic grade A maple syrup. But any good maple syrup with work well. Thanks for stopping by =)
How many servings does this recipe make?
Hi Monica! 4 – 6 individual servings.
I made this but only had lime and it worked very well. Cannot wait to make it with fresh lemon. Thanks for sharing, a friend turned me on to the salad and I found your site and will now be able to enjoy on a regular and the money I get to keep in my pocket by making this at home. To your health.
Thanks for trying this recipe, Theresa! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!!
Hi I just attemptd to make the dressing and all I could taste was the olive oil. I got all my ingredients from trader joes and I got their trader giottos evoo. I’m not sure if it just to heavy or if I’m doing something wrong. I saw your previous post about using canola oil and I was wondering if I should try that or something else . Thank you!
Hello Laura, Extra virgin olive oils can vary dramatically in taste, depending on type and quality of the fruit that is pressed, the time of harvest, weather, region etc…You can definitely use canola oil, or any light/neutral flavor oil. Please let me know how it turns out. Thanks for trying my recipe.