Skip to main content

French Dressing

Recipe information

  • Yield

    makes 3/4 cup

Ingredients

2 teaspoons tomato paste
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon finely grated onion
1 teaspoon dried mustard
3/4 teaspoon paprika
Pinch of sweet smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
Freshly ground pepper
4 1/2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup canola oil

Preparation

  1. Whisk the tomato paste, sugar, onion, mustard, paprikas, salt, and celery seed in a medium bowl; season with pepper. Whisk in the vinegar and lemon juice. Add the oil in a slow, steady stream, whisking until emulsified. Alternatively, puree all ingredients except the oil in a blender. With the machine running, add the oil in a slow, steady stream; blend until emulsified. Use the dressing immediately.

The cookbook cover with a blue background and fine typeface.
Reprinted with permission from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics by Martha Stewart Living Magazine, copyright © 2007. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of The Crown Publishing Group. Buy the full book from Amazon.
Read More
Assembled right in the skillet, no bowls needed.
No grill needed for this just-charred-enough sweet and spicy chicken.
A summer side with main dish energy.
Stir-frying slices makes this dinner doable on any given night.
Lime juice, fish sauce, peanuts, and plenty of herbs.
Choose your own adventure at the supermarket with marinated artichokes, beans, peppers, and of course, olives.
Canned green curry paste does most of the work for a dish that tastes like you tried much harder than you did.
In this vegetarian stir-fry, crumbling tofu dramatically increases its surface area, all the better for absorbing heady spices.