Tasty Tuesday- Copycat Olive Garden Salad Dressing

Hi Lovelies! Welcome back for another addition of Tasty Tuesdays!

As everyone knows Olive Garden is known for their salads. The salad and salad dressing are served with every meal. Their cold, crisp salad is hard to beat, especially when the salad dressing is served with it, it just seems to taste better. The salad dressing is so good, that they don't offer any other flavors of salad dressing. 

Yesterday, I finally found one of the best copycat recipes for this salad dressing. I made this and it tasted just like the original. So, here it is, the recipe for Olive Garden's salad dressing:

Olive Garden Salad Dressing: 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons light corn syrup (I left this out)
• 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons grated Romano cheese (I left this out)
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, or 1 garlic clove, minced (I used 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder)
• 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• Sugar (optional)

Instructions:

Combine all the ingredients in a blender until well mixed. If this is a little too tart for your own personal taste, add a little extra sugar. You can enjoy your Olive Garden salad dressing for up to 10 days if you store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Additional Notes
Another great use for the Olive Garden salad dressing is as a marinade for vegetables or even meats that you might like to grill. So you can see the Olive Garden salad dressing can be used in more than one way.

Enjoy!!!

~Angie