Skip to main content

Raisin Vinaigrette Any Lettuce Will Love

4.0

(1)

Raisin Vinaigrette on a simple salad plated on a white plate
Photograph by Isa Zapata, food styling by Sean Dooley

If sweet-and-sour Italian agrodolce wanted to dress up like a classic vinaigrette, it’d look a little something like this. Let chopped raisins (any kind you have on hand will do!) and shallot lightly pickle in vinegar; while that’s sitting, make yourself useful by washing lettuce. Whisk the vinegar mixture with Dijon mustard, honey, and olive oil until thick. Adjust to taste—an extra drizzle of honey to pull out the raisins’ sweetness perhaps, or another splash of the seasoned vinegar for a bit more brightness. When it’s perfect, spoon the vinaigrette over a bowl of greens and, if you’d like, adorn your salad with a shower of toasted nuts.

What you’ll need

Read More
Braising canned chickpeas in chicken stock and olive oil makes them unbelievably tender and buttery. This is worth the effort of peeling 40 cloves of garlic.
Roasty, bright, sweet, and pickly, this sheet pan salad—a vegetarian main OR ample side dish—checks all the flavor boxes.
An accidental recipe (sbagliatio means mistaken in Italian) yields a delicious herby tahini dressing that is excellent poured over lightly blanched green beans.
With crunchy cabbage, sweet mango, and ripe avocado, this salad will keep you full.
An electrifying pesto that stays bright green for days on end. With the addition of ginger, and jalapeño, it’s a versatile condiment to have on hand.
This riff on the Italian classic comfort food gets its verdant color from kale two ways: blended into the base, and wilted among the pasts and white beans.
Store-bought dumplings, fresh tomatoes, butter, and soy sauce simmer away for dinner in a flash.
The contrast of serving a grilled vegetable ice-cold is thrilling, and the Caesar dressing is rich and thick enough to cling longingly to each leaf of cabbage.