Vinaigrette

Vinaigrette
Vinaigrette dressing on a chopped salad
TypeSalad dressing, sauce, or marinade
Place of originFrance
Main ingredientsOil (soybean oil, canola oil, olive oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, pumpkin seed oil, avocado oil, or grape seed oil), vinegar, optionally herbs and spices

Vinaigrette (/ˌvɪnɪˈɡrɛt/ VIN-ih-GRET, French: [vinɛɡʁɛt] ) is made by mixing an edible oil with a mild acid such as vinegar or lemon juice (citric acid). The mixture can be enhanced with salt, herbs and/or spices. It is used most commonly as a salad dressing,[1] but can also be used as a marinade. Traditionally, a vinaigrette consists of 3 parts oil and 1 part vinegar mixed into a stable emulsion, but the term is also applied to mixtures with different proportions and to unstable emulsions which last only a short time before separating into layered oil and vinegar phases.

  1. ^ "Vinaigrette". bbcgoodfood.com. Immediate Media Company Ltd. Retrieved April 21, 2021.