Ginger Carrot Dressing

Making the kind of ginger carrot dressing like you get at many Japanese restaurants only takes a few key ingredients and a matter of minutes. Once you try it, you’ll likely find yourself making this again and again.

Not only is this ginger dressing delicious, it’s simply a gorgeous addition to any salad with it’s colorful golden orange color.

So grab some fresh ginger, crisp carrots and your blender and let’s get started!

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What you need for ginger carrot dressing

This is such an easy salad dressing recipe. But you do need to take a couple of steps to prepare the ingredients, mainly chopping the main ingredients.

First chop some fresh ginger. Use a medium piece to yield about 2 tablespoons of freshly chopped ginger. You don’t need to be too precious about the exact size because this will all get blended.

Next chop about a quarter of a yellow onion. You can use more onion if you like your dressing on the onion side. Again, the size doesn’t matter, just chop into small pieces.

The last thing you’ll need to chop are your carrots. Chop up about a half a cup to one cup of carrots.

The other ingredients you’ll need are:

• Soy sauce
• Rice wine vinegar
• Vegetable oil
• White sugar
• Honey

How to make carrot ginger salad dressing

Making the ginger carrot dressing is so so easy. Just add all of the ingredients with the exception of the vegetable oil into a blender. Blend on medium high speed until creamy. Then slowly add the oil to emulsify the dressing. That’s it!

You can taste your dressing and tweak it. If you wanted a little sweeter, add more honey or sugar. If you like it more tangy add a bit more ginger. You can work with the base of this carrot ginger salad dressing, and make it to your liking.

Using Asian carrot ginger dressing

This is dressing that’s commonly used on simple salads at Japanese restaurants. But this is a very versatile sauce and you can use it for many things. Try using it to dip your vegetables or on a more complex salad with different vegetables.

You can keep your Asian ginger carrot salad dressing in the refrigerator for about a week.

Love salads? Also try:

• Artichoke Quinoa Salad
• Chopped Caprese Salad
• Strawberry Gorgonzola Salad
• Asian Caesar Salad
• Pomegranate and Pear Salad