Have you ever checked the ingredient list of the dressing you are using? Thankfully, I have… and all I can say is I will never be consuming store bought dressing again! Something about dumping a bunch of chemicals, artificial flavoring, and preservatives on a beautiful mound of spinach doesn’t make sense. Another reason I will never be purchasing store bought dressing again is the false advertising I have seen from the companies making these products. When I searched for the ingredients I went to the website for Ken’s Steakhouse and they were promising to be using “only the most select ingredients.” They have very clever phrases printed on their packages, for instance “Chef’s Reserve.” This gives the impression your dressing was handcrafted in a steakhouse just for you but unfortunately everything about Ken’s marketing is an illusion. Here are the 26 ingredients in the creamy Caesar:
INGREDIENTS: Soybean Oil, Water, Distilled Vinegar, Egg Yolk, Parmesan Cheese (Pasteurized Part Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Garlic, contains less than 2% of: Salt, Olive Oil, Sugar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Spices, Natural Flavor, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate and Calcium Disodium EDTA as Preservatives, Onion*, Xanthan Gum, Propylene Glycol, Alginate, Molasses, Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Anchovy (Fish), Tamarind, Titanium Dioxide (for color). *Dried.
Not exactly the select ingredients I thought Ken’s was talking about! I bolded all of the ingredients I consider questionable in this dressing, and there are a lot! Essentially your consuming genetically modified soy and a bunch of other unknown ingredients. Soybean oil is highly refined, unhealthy, and cheap so I choose not to consume it at all. For more on soybean oil click here.
I purchased a special glass bottle to make dressing that had a bunch of recipes printed on the bottle. In theory this was a great idea but trying to put thick ingredients into a small hole just doesn’t work out so well. I resorted to a half pint wide mouth mason jar and it was perfect! It fit just right into the jar and I realized this made it super easy to make without creating a bunch of dishes and a mess!
1Mason Jar Creamy Caesar
By Published: April 18, 2014
- Yield: 1/2 pint (8 (2 Tbsp) Servings)
Simply add ingredients to mason jar, shake well, and enjoy! This recipe is also much more health conscious in terms of fat and calories as our base is Greek yogurt and 2% milk.
Ingredients
- 1 tsp dijon mustard
- 1 tsp anchovy paste
- 1 Tbsp heavy Cream I added this instead of using an egg yolk because something about raw eggs turns me off
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese I freshly shredded mine as the packaged stuff has additives, especially the powder kind
- to taste McCormick Grinder garlic pepper seasoning or freshly ground black pepper
- milk (I use 2%) to fill the jar
Instructions
- Combine first 7 ingredients.
- Add milk to fill, put lid on jar, and shake. If you prefer a thinner dressing fill to brim. If you prefer a thicker dressing add a little less milk.
