The Best Ever Restaurant-thentic Mexican Caesar Salad Dressing
Made in a blender, this savory and delicious Mexican Caesar Salad Dressing is rich and creamy. Roasted Anaheim peppers are blended with lots of cilantro, Cotija cheese, pepitas, and other salad dressing ingredients to create a restaurant-thentic salad dressing that your family will crave. Serve on a Mexican Caesar Salad or think outside the box to use this on a Mexican Caesar pizza, sandwich wraps, or drizzled on roasted chicken, grilled steak, or shish kebobs! Yum!
- Prep Time: 22 mins
- Cook Time: 8 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 32 1x
- Category: Salad
- Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients
- 2 Anaheim peppers, roasted, peeled and seeded
- 1/3 cup roasted and salted pepita seeds
- 2 large garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) salad oil (canola or avocado oil are the ones I’ve used)
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 5 tablespoons crumbled Cotija cheese
- 2 small bunches cilantro
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Put the first 8 ingredients into a blender (Anaheim peppers, pepitas, garlic cloves, salt, pepper, canola oil, red wine vinegar, Cotija cheese)
- Blend on medium-high for 30 seconds.
- Add cilantro one bunch at a time and blend for about a minute total.
- Slowly add mayonnaise through the funnel in the lid with the blender on medium-high.
- Add the water through the funnel in the lid and blend on medium-high until completely blended.
- Pour into a quart mason jar and refrigerate until ready to use.
Notes
This recipe makes a little more than one quart of salad dressing (4 cups). A standard serving size for salad dressing is 2 tablespoons, thus the servings listed as 32.
This salad dressing will keep for about a week in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
Serve over Mexican Caesar Salad, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, use as a dip with tortilla chips, use as a dressing in sandwich wraps, as a condiment to grilled chicken, steak, carne asada, shish kebobs, or on a Mexican Caesar Salad pizza.
I usually use light mayonnaise and it still tastes amazing.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 Tablespoons
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