Creamy Blackberry Salad Dressing
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This blackberry salad dressing is a creamy, luscious dressing with tart and sweet fruit flavors, plus herbal notes from fresh tarragon. This recipe peps up the dullest of salads. Check out the new video to see how to make it. 🙂
Creamy Blackberry Salad Dressing
I came up with this one a while ago and decided since I created a Pantry section here on the site I’d include this one for reference. Quickly made from items you already have in your refrigerator and pantry, this is my go to for a salad dressing that delivers more than the go-to oil and vinegar.
Ingredients
This is an emulsion of rice wine vinegar, vegetable oil and some plain Greek yogurt. The magic happens with the fresh blackberries and tarragon. Tarragon has that sweet almost licorice note and with the fruity blackberry, well just trust this will work. Fresh tarragon is best to me, but if not on hand I always keep some dried.
What’s great about this is that you’re making it. You know what goes in it and there are no ingredients with twenty letters you can’t pronounce, or know what they are.
Video and Instructions
Want to see this recipe in action? Check out the video located in the recipe card and the bottom of this post!
To make the dressing, it’s simply a quick emulsion in the blender and ready in a minute. I use a Vitamix that thoroughly breaks everything down, but if your blender doesn’t completely break down the seeds from the blackberries, just press through a sieve to extract any seed residue for a completely smooth and creamy salad dressing.
To offset the tartness it’s rounded out with some honey to sweeten things up. The combination is sublime and goes well with a hearty kale salad to these Spring Greens with avocados and roasted and salted pumpkin seeds.
Serve this homemade salad dressing over your favorite salad greens as a lunch or a starter for dinner
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Besides a fantastic dressing for a salad, what other ideas would you use this on? Enjoy!
This recipe first appeared on Kevin Is Cooking January 2016 and was last updated on August 26, 2019.
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Creamy Blackberry Salad Dressing + Video
Ingredients
- 1 cup blackberries
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp fresh tarragon , chopped OR 1 tsp dried tarragon
Instructions
- In a blender puree the blackberries, rice wine vinegar, vegetable oil, yogurt, honey and kosher salt.
- Press through a sieve to extract seed residue and whisk in the fresh or dried tarragon. Chill until ready to use.
Video
Nutrition
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
This looks so wonderful. I’ve been growing tarragon and wondered what I was going to do with it all, then all of a sudden, I’m finding great recipe’s and it looks gorgeous. I may have to resort to frozen blackberries though, unless I get really lucky.
Thank you Cathy, I hope you’re able to give this a try. The blackberry tarragon combo is so good!
Just beautiful, Kevin. I think even the most reluctant salad eater would be converted with this dressing.
Thank you Jane, appreciate it. Have a great weekend.
Wow, Beautiful color on the dressing! I would love to take a bowl of salad with that dressing. Looks so refreshing!
Thank you Holly and the avocado added to the creaminess. Good stuff!
OMG this is such a beautiful salad! LOVE the color 🙂 Can’t believe I never used fruits in my salad dressing. I have mixed berries in the freezer and will try this over the weekend! Wonderful idea!
Ha! Thanks Maggie. I love the color of this as well. It’s vibrant and inviting – at least to me! The taste is heaven and I hope you do give this a try, you’ll love it. Have a great weekend.
Kevin, I could literally stare at this post all day…your photos are gorgeous and this dressing sounds divine! Have great weekend, my friend!
Wow, thank you Annie. I so appreciate that. In all honesty your site and photography inspires me too. Really.
I am keeping good thoughts that you and your family are safe and warm out there! 🙂
OMG! What a color for a salad dressing! You keep amaze me every time Kevin, and this is the truth not a compliment!
I really appreciate your kind words Farida. Variety is THE spice of life!
I hope you were able to download the book we talked about earlier today.
Hey Kevin! What a fantastic looking salad! I have been craving salad (and veggies) lately – how about some of this on asparagus? Have a wonderful weekend! We are in the midst of our second snowstorm this week – 6″ on the ground from Wednesday and another 6-10″ arriving tonight!! Typical TN weather it isn’t! 🙂
Thanks Dorothy and keep warm out there! We hiked in the snow last weekend with the dogs, but we don’t have the storms the East coast has been having. Stay safe. 🙂
Kev, this recipe looks amazing…but YOUR SITE!!! I LOVE IT! And the pictures!!! OMG everything is look soo fantastic and put together! GO YOU!!!!!
Thanks! I really appreciate that Mila, really. Been working hard on new things in 2016 from the logo change to the site and it’s direction. Thanks for the encouragement. 🙂 xoxo
What a fun salad dressing idea! We’ve been trying to be really good lately, and our lunches have consisted of mostly salads. But we’ve been playing around and creating different salad dressings. I totally need to put this one on the list as blackberries are probably my favoritist berry of all time! #WolfpackDressed
I just found that most salad dressings were on the savory side and since I like to mix herbs with fruit – this came to be! Have a great weekend Dave and thanks!
What a beauty, Kevin! Blackberries in my area are inexpensive right now, but not sweet enough to just eat out of hand. So this is just what I’m looking for. By the way, can I just print your photos to line my kitchen wall for inspiration? Have a nice weekend, friend. And thank you for yet another new favorite.
Awe, you’re very kind! Keviniscooking wallpaper, love it.
Gotta love blackberries and this is a perfect way to use them, right? Have a great weekend Sally.