Easy and delicious homemade salad dressing that is perfect for your simple salad as well as your favorite gourmet salads! It's light and lemony, creamy, and delicious!
Zest and juice the lemon into your blender cup or pitcher. You should have about 3 Tablespoons of juice. Add in the yogurt, sugar, salt and half of the oil. Blend in blender until combined. If you don't have a blender, use a bowl or Mason jar. Whisk or shake until well combined.
Taste the dressing to determine if it needs the remaining oil. If it's too tart for you, add in the rest of the oil and pulse blend or whisk to incorporate. If it's perfect, then you ready to chill the dressing until you are ready to use it.
Thickening The Salad Dressing
If your Greek yogurt isn't super thick, sometimes the dressing needs to be thickened. To do this, combine ½ teaspoon of avocado oil or the oil you are using in the dressing and ⅛ teaspoon of xanthan gum in a small bowl. Mix together like you would a cornstarch slurry.
Add to the dressing and either pulse blend or whisk/stir until combined. The dressing will start to thicken immediately, but it will get thicker as it sits. Wait 10 minutes before deciding if you need to repeat this to thicken it more.