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Homemade Olive Oil & Lemon Dressing (Ladolemono)

Written by Published on Updated on May 20, 2019 in Salads

I love salad dressings, they always gives your food and tastebuds a special surprise.  🙂  This is a very old salad dressing recipe which I have made quite often.  What makes this dressing even stronger is that once all the ingredients are combined it needs to be set aside for about a week.  Once opened the dressing becomes a wonderful explosion of taste, the combination of Cinnamon, Lemon and Coriander packed in a jar with Olive Oil.  🙂

This dressing is not only used for salads, but can transform into a delicious baste for  poultry, meats and fish while grilling or oven baking.  I use it on salads and I also use it to marinade chicken overnight…:)

HOMEMADE OLIVE OIL & LEMON DRESSING (LADOLEMONO)

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Ingredients
  

  • 4 Lemons
  • 5 tablespoons of Cooking Salt
  • 2 Cinnamon sticks
  • 1 teaspoon of Sweet Paprika Powder
  • 1 tablespoon of Coriander
  • 1 Large Jar

Instructions
 

  • Boil lemons in water for 15 minutes…drain water and set aside to cool.
  • With a fork or knife make deep holes into the lemons.
  • Add all the ingredients into a large jar and set aside in a cool place for a week. You can then enjoy a wonderful salad dressing. 🙂

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

9 Comments

  1. deedee
    October 23, 2017 at 5:25 pm  ·  Reply
    This is a little like a preserved lemon dressing-do you have preserved lemons in Greece? It looks really interesting, cinnamon and lemon? I never would have thought of that one Sophie! Thanks for sharing :)
  2. chefkreso
    October 23, 2017 at 5:55 pm  ·  Reply
    Such a simple and refreshing dressing!
  3. jyo
    October 23, 2017 at 7:04 pm  ·  Reply
    Such an amazing dressing...very simple but STUNNER !!
  4. Vero and Canito in the kitchen
    October 25, 2017 at 7:46 am  ·  Reply
    Great dressing, Sophie! I am definitely going to try it as well. I love it :-) <3
  5. RhapsodyBoheme
    October 26, 2017 at 5:03 am  ·  Reply
    I love olive oil on my salads and this is an added twist. 💙

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