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Olive Garden is known for their salads, and everyone loves the Olive Garden Salad Dressing. The salad and the Olive Garden Salad Dressing is served complimentary with every meal, their cold crisp salad is hard to be beat, when salad comes with Olive Garden salad dressing, it always seems to taste better. Everyone seems to love the Olive Garden salad dressing, because they don’t offer any other flavors of salad dressings. We hope you enjoy our recipe version of the Olive Garden Salad dressing recipe at home.
Olive Garden Salad Dressing
1/2 C. Mayonnaise
1/3 C. White Vinegar
1 tsp. Vegetable Oil
2 Tbsp. Corn Syrup
2 Tbsp. Parmesan Cheese
2 Tbsp. Romano Cheese
1/4 tsp. Garlic Salt – or one clove garlic minced
1/2 tsp. Italian Seasoning
1/2 tsp. Parsley Flakes
1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice
sugar (optional)
Olive Garden Salad Mix
Place all ingredients in a blender until well mixed. If this is a little to tart for your own personal tastes please add a little extra sugar. You can enjoy your Olive Garden salad dressing for about 10 days if stored in an air tight container in the refrigerator. Another great use for the Olive Garden salad dressing is you can use it for a marinade for vegetables or even meats that you might like to grill. So you can see the Olive Garden salad dressing, can be used in more than one way.
Making Olive Garden Salad Dressing at home is easy to do. You can make other recipes that taste just like they do in a restaurant.
How about Applebees Oriental Salad Dressing? This is a terrific way to bring the taste of a restaurant a home with this recipe.
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How about everyone say thank you for trying??? I haven’t tried this recipe yet but plan on making it tonight so I don’t know if it tastes like the real deal or not but just want to say thanks in advance for taking the time to try and duplicate their recipe!
a little extra sugar? there is no sugar indicated in the recipe.
Thanks for pointing that out, I will put sugar down as an optional ingredient. ~Stephanie
This isn’t the recipe they told me they use kraft dressing with cheese
I find it odd they would say that. You can buy a bottle of the dressing there, so I believe a supplier is making the dressing for them. Just ask your waiter if you want to purchase a bottle of dressing, they will be happy to sell you a bottle of their dressing. ~Stephanie
while I don’t think this recipe tastes anything like the Olive Garden dressing, it is DELICIOUS and I would without a doubt make it again.
I totaly agree with Olive Garden dressing and the best part is you can buy it at the restaurant and not make it from their recipe. When I have lunch there I come home with several bottles of their dressing.
You’re lucky — the nearest OG to me is almost 3 hrs away. The last one I bought before a long flight home, it broke in my carry on. Wow, what a mess I had but did I smell amazing lol
Thank you for the salad dressing recipe. Can’t wait to make and enjoy.
Simpson
I made this recipe quite a few times, I do add pectin and substitute the vinegar with red wine vinegar. I make it for my church and it is known as the “Church House dressing”a hit everytime
Just do what I do…I buy some before I leave Olive Garden …this way I know I’m gonna have it on hand.
April has it right! The recipe with the Paul Newman dressing is awesome!! Takes just like OG’s dressing!
This did not look the same, but it was AMAZING!!!
OK I TRIED THIS RECIPE AND IT WAS TO DIE FOR A BIG SUCCESS IN MY HOUSE, I THEN TRIED THE ONE WITH PAUL NEWMANS AND HAD TO ADD 6 TSP OF WHITE VINEGAR BEFORE THE WHOLE FAMILY THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT, I WOULD RATHER MIX THE EXTRA INGRED. AND IT B PERFECT. THANKS ALOT
April had the right one. I have made this many times and it is very good. Wishbone can be used…not much of a taste diff in it and Paul Newmans.
This is dressing is the only way I can get my daughter to eat salad. When we go to olive garden she will eat an entire bowl thanks for sharing now i can get her to eat it at home. Great web site!
April, that I believe is very similar to the Gloria Pitzer recipe, and I think some people have a hard time Paul Newman’s Own Vinegar and Oil dressing, so I have also seen some variants with Wishbone Italian dressing. Some people also add a raw egg to this dish as well.
I found the recipe using Newman’s Own Olive Oil dressing as a base. It is really the best. I have tried the other and it was too thin and milky and didn’t taste the same. My husband won’t eat any salad unless it has the "olive garden" dressing on it. LOL This is the absolute closest to the restauraunt’s recipe I have found. The only changes I made was using Splenda instead of sugar and mixing it in a seperate container then pouring it back into the original bottle. The dry ingredients just dont seem to fit until they rehydrate with the liquid.
<b><u>Ingredients:</u></b>
8 ounces Paul Newman’s Own vinegar and oil dressing
1 garlic clove — peeled, halved
1/2 tablespoon dried basil
1/2 tablespoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon sugar
(or 3 pkgs of Sweet and Low)
Cooking Directions:
Put ingredients into the bottle of dressing and shake well.
Refrigerate 24 hours before using.
I had heard that as well about the Paul Newman’s, they also I think had you sticking a raw egg in there. To me, this reminds me of souped up Italian dressing.
I heard that they used Paul Newmans Italian dressing & doctored it up. Don’t know if that’s true or not. I don’t think they sell the dressing anymore. At least not where I go, Anitoch, Ca.
Yes, I found this same recipe elsewhere on the internet provided by a "chef." It tastes nothing like olive garden dressing. I found a second one that sounded closer, but it too isn’t the same. I don’t think the preservatives is what’s missing. Both of the recipes I tried are way too vinegary. OG dressing is sort of a sweeter Italian dressing.
Sheila – how much dressing/ egg/ cheese do you use to mix up your recipe?
the olive garden use to make their dressing in house. it is very simple to duplicate and i promise it will not disappoint. it is wishbone italian dressing, egg (i use pasteurized egg beaters), and parmesan cheese (kraft). i work at the o.g.. one time we ran out of dressing and had to finish our shift using the original recipe. no one noticed a difference. a true copy cat recipe!
I agree with Sharon… what a waste of ingredients!
I absolutely love your website. Couldn’t find it for the longest time. At last, we’ll be happy to eat at home.
When they manufactor this recipe they use a lot of preservatives and other additives that we don’t have at home, these affect the taste and texture of this salad dressing. I believe this recipe we made about 8 years or so ago, so I am sure their recipe has changed by now. You may want to try to purchase their salad dressing. It is very hard to duplicate textures of additives in the home kitchen.
Stephanie
My family absolutely LOVES Olive Garden’s salad and dressing, so I was thrilled to find the dressing “recipe” on this site. Sorry to say…but this recipe tastes NOTHING like Olive Garden’s salad dressing. I was soooo dissapointed and so was my family. The restaurant’s dressing is not as sweet or “milky” looking as this version and has a completely different taste and texture. Does anyone out there have the REAL recipe??
Thanks!
Sharon