Clean Eating Salad Dressings - with Tofu!

One of the most difficult aspects for me in Clean Eating has been doing away with the sauces and condiments I'm so used to grabbing and pouring. Salad dressing has been particularly troublesome, with bottled dressings being so high in salt , sugar, and preservatives.

 I was very pleased to find this wonderful cache of Clean salad dressings that have tofu as their base over at This Mama Cooks .

Sun Dried Tomato Dressing


Ingredients:

• 1/4 pound soft tofu
• 1 tablespoon high quality olive oil
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 tablespoon sundried tomatoes
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• pinch of black pepper

Directions:

1. Combine all the ingredients in a blender or mini-food processor.
2. Blend until ingredients are combined and the dressing is creamy. If there are chunks of tomatoes in the dressing, that’s OK.

Spicy Ginger Sesame Salad Dressing

I love the ginger salad dressing that’s served at Japanese restaurants. This one comes close, though it’s creamier and spicier.
Makes 3/4 cup of dressing

Ingredients:

• 1/4 pound soft tofu
• 1/2 teaspoon Spectrum Organic Toasted Sesame Seed Oil
• 2 teaspoons of rice vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger, freshly grated
• 5 drops of sriracha sauce
• 1 teaspoon of Big Tree Farms SweetTree Organic Coconut Palm Sugar, Blond
• 2 pinches of roasted black sesame seeds

Directions:

1. Combine all the ingredients in a blender or mini-food processor.
2. Blend until ingredients are combined and the dressing is creamy.