Name: Italian Pesto Salad Dressing
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 tbs good quality olive oil; 2 tsp lemon juice; 1 heaped tsp pesto; 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard; 1/2 tsp honey; Salt & Pepper to taste

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This Italian Pesto Salad dressing recipe is perfect to be served on a salad with pizza. Keto and Paleo friendly also!

Pesto Salad Dressing

Sometimes a takeaway, or delivered pizza is just what you need – you know the situation – it has been a long day, and all you want to do is flop on the sofa with Netflix and a glass of wine or three and let someone else bring your supper to you.

We do not order delivery pizzas that often, but when we do I do try and make a salad to go with them, we usually have a bag of leaves of some sort in the fridge and I am sure that a portion of vegetables offsets the pizza somehow.

This dressing is given a kick of basil with the addition of a spoonful of pesto, as well as a good squeeze of lemon. I never seem to get through that much pesto, so once I open a jar I keep in the freezer, the oil in the pesto stops it freezing rock solid so it is always easy to scoop a spoonful out, and pop the jar back into the freezer.

4.91 from 10 votes

Italian Pesto Salad Dressing

Prep Time

5 mins

Total Time

5 mins

A simple pesto based salad dressing, perfect paired with a takeaway pizza. This dressing is given a kick of basil with the addition of a spoonful of pesto, as well as a good squeeze of lemon. Keto and Paleo friendly.

Course: Dressing

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Pesto Salad dressing

Servings: 2

Calories: 78 kcal

Author: Helen Best-Shaw

Ingredients

1 tbs good quality olive oil
2 tsp lemon juice
1 heaped tsp pesto
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp honey
Salt & Pepper to taste

Instructions

Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix with a mini whisk.
Adjust the seasoning and serve over salad leaves.

Recipe Notes

This recipe is 3 Weight Watchers Smart Points per portion

Nutrition Facts

Italian Pesto Salad Dressing

Amount Per Serving

Calories 78 Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 7g 11%

Saturated Fat 1g 5%

Sodium 37mg 2%

Total Carbohydrates 2g 1%

Sugars 1g

Vitamin A 1%

Vitamin C 2.3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

We ate our salad with this pesto salad dressing alongside the new Papa John’s Premium Hawaiian pizza, made with fresh pineapple and ham hock served on a thick layer of mozzarella, which we were very impressed with. It is undoubtedly an American-Italian style pizza, with a thick – but not too thick base, a puffy soft crust and a generous amount of topping. The ham hock was richly flavoured, and the fresh pineapple juicy and not sweet.

The large pizza at £16.49 was probably enough for 3, but we managed to polish it off, but did leave a few crusts, the medium at £13.49, or the thin crust, would have been the less gluttonous option, and I think would have still been more than enough. I find most delivery pizzas are fairly salty and make me very thirsty, but for once I was not gasping for water within half an hour.

All in all the pizza was a win, with quality ingredients and the important lack of salt, and we’d certainly order (a smaller) one again, when next in the mood for an American style pizza, or during a movie night with friends.

And if you love pesto flavour, you may want to try my Carrot Top Pesto!