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Brighten Up Any Store-Bought Salad Dressing With A Dash Of Vinegar
By Alia Ali
Store-bought salad dressing tends to have a muted flavor, requiring you to make tweaks at home, and acidic ingredients like vinegar are a great way to perk up any recipe.
Many store-bought salad dressings have a pop of tang, like buttermilk in ranch dressing, citrus juice in green goddess and tahini dressings, or vinegar in many others.
Many varieties of vinegar lend themselves well to different applications and ingredients, so it's important to know which can improve your dressing.
While being the least "flavored" of vinegar, white distilled vinegar is a little too one-note for salad dressings and won't add much depth of flavor.
Apple cider vinegar can amp up any dressing. It's already one of the most common and versatile ingredients in vinaigrettes, often used to amplify sweet and tart flavors.
Vinegar that uses wine as its base, such as white wine vinegar and rice wine vinegar, can be employed depending on the main ingredient and other components in the salad.