Orange Creamsicle Homemade Dressing & Dip
A salad dressing can make or break a salad for my kids! Put ranch on lettuce, and it’s almost a home run every time! But there are so many more possibilities, and so many more dressings that will cause a picky eater to inhale their greens! This is exactly what our cream orange salad dressing is for- the major increase in consumption of greens for those kids!
So, how do we get our kids to consume leafy greens? We make them delicious! This dressing has been our second favorite next to ranch! It’s so creamy, and we pretty much put it on every fruit or vegetable we can get our hands on!
There are only two ingredients in this dressing, and both are SUPER HEALTHY!! We blended up raw cashews and oranges, until very smooth. This is a dressing, so you can’t leave it with any chunks! Get it blended as smooth as your blender can take it.
Once blended, we poured our dressing into a squeeze bottle. We use these for a lot of things, but mostly dressings.
Then, I made silly little label. Most of the time, we just write with a marker on the side of the bottle, but if you want a label, you can use this one:
Perhaps the best reason for trying this dressing with your kids, is the vitamins and minerals from the greens they can absorb better into their little bodies when the fats accompany them! Fat soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and K need fat to be utilized. The cashews in this dressing are the perfect vehicle for this!
- 2 cups of greens ( a mix between green leaf, romaine, and iceberg)
- 2 mandarin oranges, peeled and segmented
- 1/4 cup pecans
- 1 cup sliced strawberries
So heavenly! What do you think? Ready to try some new salads with your kids?
Ingredients
Dressing
- 1 cup cashews
- 4 medium orange
Dip
- 1 cup cashews
- 2 medium orange
Instructions
- Blend cashews and oranges in a high powered blender until very smooth and runny. If you need to add more oranges to thin it out, feel free! Top your favorite citrus salad with the dressing.
- Blend cashews and oranges in a high powered blender until very smooth, thick and creamy. Use to dip apples, strawberries, bananas, or even celery.
Nutrition
We should assume to use raw cashews here, correct?
Yes, I fixed it Christy! Thanks!
How long can this dressing be kept in the fridge? Thx
how long does the dressing last before going bad?
I only like the texture of it for 2-3 days. After that, it’s still good, but it gets a bit grittier.
Do you use the whole orange (skin as well)?
Agathe- peel the orange first. Just the sections inside.
Made this and LOVE it! Not as a dressing but as a spread on toast! Mine was very thick (i used my food processor) and not very sweet. I added a bit of sugar and coconut oil. I have mixed it with soy milk and i eat it as a dessert at night!! And living in the north im guessing is why my oranges were not very sweet/juicy.
oh my gosh! I’m so sad. It sounded so good and then I read cashews. my son is allergic to cashews. we avoid all tree nuts can you recommend an alternative?
Oh no Kathleen! What a challenge! I haven’t though of an alternative for this specific recipe yet.
Is the nutritional information listed for the whole recipe? If not, what is the serving size?
It’s for a quarter of the recipe. It’s a bit complicated because I put two different recipes here, and the nutrition data is assuming the total recipe makes 4 servings.