Easy Homemade Italian Dressing
Want a fast and delicious Italian dressing you can make at home? You’re going to love this! Just shake everything together in a jar. That’s it! No cooking, no chopping, no blending, no nothing.
Once I realized that all the salad dressings on God’s green earth contain sugar I set out to create a few that don’t. Okay, yes I’m aware that there are exceptions. But they tend to be expensive and I’m definitely Team Let’s Make What We Can at Home.
So here we are making this Easy Homemade Italian Dressing.
You probably already have all these ingredients which means you can quickly whip up a jar of this stuff whenever you want it. That’s my kind of recipe.
All the ingredients are clean. No junk. No artificial anything. Just the good stuff.
And this dress is Whole30 compliant, gluten free, and dairy free! More good news, right?
For those of you on Whole30 wondering about the white or red wine vinegar in here… Yes, you can have it! You can find that out for yourself on the Whole30 website if you like.
Make it and pour it on a salad or use it as a marinade. (I recommend using it in this Italian Marinated Chicken and these Italian Marinated Chicken Lettuce Wraps.)
Today feels like a good day to make some Easy Homemade Italian Dressing, doesn’t it? Give it a try and let me know what you think. If you don’t use it all right away just refrigerate the remainder and shake it up again when you’re ready to use.
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Easy Homemade Italian Dressing
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup red or white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a jar, place the lid on the jar, and give it a good shake!
- Just like with all vinegar based dressing you'll need to shake it up again before pouring to eliminate separation.
Nutrition
originally published December 22, 2017 — last updated February 18, 2020 by Christina
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45 Comments on “Easy Homemade Italian Dressing”
I’ve made your Ranch Dressing as well as your Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing and they are both delicious! I’m all in on this one too!
Is there a taste difference between using the red vs white wine vinegar?
Hardly any difference at all. I have used and enjoyed both!
Simply delicious!
Have you ever made this with Rice Vinegar? I just realized I don’t have white wine vinegar.
I haven’t! Let me know if you do!
Do you use extra virgin or light tasting olive oil?
You can use either for this one. I tend to use EVOO and reserve my light olive oil for all the creamy dressings.
Hi! Should I store this on the counter, or in the fridge, and, how long will it last? 🙂
Store in the fridge. I’ve never gone longer than a week with mine just because we finish it so fast. Give it a good shake before pouring!
I have made the recipe for years but I have to be a little more frugal so I use a premixed shaker container of Italian seasoning and shake in the oil / vinegar mixture. It works just fine.
Christina, thank you very much! I really liked the recipe, I took it to my recipe book)
Christina, this looks tasty! These are absolutely mouth watering! It will quickly disappear in our house, very tasty and flavorful!
I rewrote this on my recipe card as “Best Italian Dressing”. Amazing! Thank you for sharing! I accidentally used a full tsp of onion powder tonight. Didn’t notice a difference. I have decided to use “light” virgin olive oil and the family seems to like it better this round.
I put this dressing on my mixed green salad and it was delish delish delish!! Thank you for sharing!
This was delightful! Thank you!
I llove this recipe. It’s tast as is and can be altered according to what’s in your pantry. I have made it with a basil vinegar that I made with red basil, and have used two tsp of Penzeys Pasta Sprinkle blend instead of the oregano and basil. Always delish.
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Definitely trying it! I’m gonna try to marinate chicken breasts with that and cook in an airfryer to meal prep my husband’s lunch. You think that dressing will work?
I have never had Italian dressing. I was really craving pasta salad and every recipe calls for it. Well I didn’t have any of the dressing but looked up the recipe for dressing and found this one. I had every ingredient on hand. Hands down my favorite salad and dressing ever! Thank you!
This is the best dressing recipe. I’m making batches of the dry ingredients. Everyone loves it. Thank you so much.
Have made this a couple of times and absolutely love it. I used it to dress a pasta salad and it was great. I have kept mine in the fridge for up to 4 weeks with no problem. Will never buy italian dressing again. Now will have to try the Ranch and see how my picky husband handles it.
I used this dressing over pasta salad. It was so tasty and bold. I will make this again and again.
Don’t have any wine vinegar, can I use regular white vinegar or apple cider vinegar?
I made this recipe to use as a marinade for a wild duck recipe I love to make. It worked perfectly. Delicious.
No need to buy bottled dressing when you can make this so easily and can control what goes into the product.
What kind of pepper do we use? Their are so many kinds.
Black pepper unless otherwise specified.
I needed some Italian dressing for a marinade and discovered that we were out. I found your recipe and love it! I had everything I needed in the pantry!
Thank you for this recipe! I’m house sitting, without my cookbooks/recipes, and needed a recipe for Italian dressing fast, with ingredients on hand at an unfamiliar house. You were right – “ingredients you probably have”. And, its delicious! I only added half the amount of salt, as I’m on a low-salt diet, but otherwise made as instructed. This will be my new go-to dressing, when I’m home or house sitting ♡
Best dressings, ever!, i will never buy from the store again, thank you soo much, ive tried the poppy seed and the Italian, soooo fresh tasting! Perfecto 😘
Homemade is always soooooo much better!! This looks awesome!!
This recipe was great on pasta salad! I didn’t have any wine vinegar so substituted half apple cider vinegar and half balsamic vinegar. Also didn’t have red pepper flakes, and left out the pepper and it was still delicious. Thanks!
Great Italian dressing recipe! We love it. Does it have to go in the fridge though? Can I leave it out on the counter? I have a pourer I want to put it in that I don’t want to put in the fridge. Thanks for advice!!
This was a delicious Italian Dressing. This is how we used to make it before you could find pre-made dressings in a bottle at the super market. This had no preservatives which I really liked. Try this recipe and find out what old school salad dressing is suppose to taste like.
Since it’s just my husband and I, how to I figure out how to reduce the number of servings to 4 instead of 8?
Easy to make and delicious!
Sooo Goood!!!
Thank you!
I make my own dressing all the time. Mine is much too potent for most people (lots of raw garlic) so I tried this recipe for family and it was very good. They all liked it.
Easy and yummy.
Best dressing ever.
So happy to hear that!
I first made it with the wine. I didn’t care for it. I made it a second time without the wine and added 3 minced garlic cloves. I rate it a 5 this way.
This dressing is AMAZING!!!! My husband and I are on Whole 30 and all of the “approved” dressings were either too expensive or didn’t taste great. This dressing is so good that my 17 year old daughter prefers this to any other dressing out there (and she is really picky). I find that I am making a double batch every week. I substituted balsamic vinegar for the wine vinegar (because it was what I had) and it gives it that little extra something. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I know that it will be a family favorite for years to come!
Note: I have found that the dressing hardens in the fridge, so I started leaving it on the counter.
Love this! Thanks for the comment!