Sauces and Dressings

If you have been putting bottled dressing on your salads, this recipe is about to change everything. This basil dressing is fresh, glossy, vibrant green, and takes exactly five minutes to make in a blender. It is the kind of fresh herb dressing that makes a simple bowl of greens taste like something special, and…

Once you try this homemade enchilada sauce recipe, you will never reach for the canned stuff again. I tested this three times to nail the right ratio of spices to liquid, and what I landed on is a deeply flavored, glossy, rust-red sauce that coats every enchilada beautifully.  It comes together with pantry staples you…

Some dressings just make everything better. This homemade lemon garlic dressing is one of those. I first made a version of this on a Tuesday night when I had half a lemon sitting on the counter, a sad salad that needed rescuing, and exactly zero patience to run to the store. Three ingredients and five…

This Creamy Pesto Sauce Recipe is your shortcut to easy restaurant-style at home — the kind of rich, glossy sauce you pay good money for at an Italian restaurant, made in your own kitchen in just 10 minutes. Some sauces take an hour. This one does not.  My creamy pesto sauce is what happens when…

There are sauces you make once in a while, and then there are sauces you keep permanently in rotation. This lemon caper sauce recipe is the second kind. Six ingredients. One pan. Ten minutes. And the result? A glossy, tangy, salty, buttery sauce that makes a basic chicken breast taste like something from a proper…

Raise your hand if you have read the back of a store-bought dressing bottle and quietly put it back on the shelf. Canola oil, corn syrup, xanthan gum — and that is just the first three ingredients.  I used to do the same thing until I realized that making a healthy salad dressing at home…

If you have ever dipped warm pita into a bowl of cold, garlicky tzatziki and immediately wanted to make it at home, this recipe is for you. This homemade tzatziki sauce is thick, creamy, and packed with fresh dill and cucumber — and it comes together in about ten minutes flat. I tested this four…

There are sauces you make once and immediately wonder how you ate food without them. This chimichurri sauce recipe is that sauce. I first made it after my neighbor brought a jar to a backyard cookout. She drizzled it over grilled skirt steak, spooned it onto potatoes, and used what was left as a salad…

The first time I made lemon butter sauce properly, I drizzled it over some plain roasted broccoli and my husband asked if I had ordered from a restaurant. It’s that kind of sauce. Bright from real lemon juice, rich from cold butter going in at the right moment, and silky in a way that feels…