Bag The Bottle! Homemade Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette

Ah, the New Year resolutions.   So dreadfully painful and hard to follow!  This year we tried to avoid the extreme, never to be accomplished, set up for failure resolutions.  We only made a few wee baby promises, with the hopes that success will be easier!   One of those is to always eat one salad per day, and to skip as much processed food as possible.   So this recipe for homemade strawberry balsamic vinaigrette from Chef Keith Snow of Harvest Eating is perfect,  meeting both requirements, in addition to tasting far better than bottled dressing.   There may just be resolution success this year!   Watch the video for Keith’s easy technique, and visit his website for many more delicious ideas.

Recipe per the video:

Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
Chef Keith Snow

Wash, cut off tops, and half 1 cup of strawberries (Or raspberries, blackberries, blueberries.  If nice looking fresh berries are not available, try organic frozen berries)
Slice a small clove of shallot
Red wine vinegar (1 tbsp or to taste)
Balsamic vinegar (1 tbsp or to taste, Chef Keith likes aged Italian balsamics from Modena Italy or from the Emilia Romagna region)
Pepper
Salt
1/4 cup of light olive oil

Blend in an immersion blender.