Sweeten Salad Dressings With Plain Syrup
Each salad dressing needs a little sugar. Yes, it adds sweetness, but it also reduces bitterness and acidity by combining different ingredients to create a consistent flavor profile. Maple, honey, and agave are all good additions, but they bring their own flavor in addition to the sheer sweetness.
If you want to add sweetness without clouding your vision of salad dressing with other, random flavors, cane sugar is your best bet. The granular product may work fine, but depending on the temperature of the other ingredients, it may settle – undissolved – at the bottom of the dressing vessel. To make sugar mixes easily, try borrowing a trick from the cocktail world and taking a simple syrup. Dissolve white sugar in an equal amount of hot water ( microwave safe ), let cool, then add a teaspoon to the dressing. The syrup disperses evenly and quickly when shaken to create a perfectly balanced salad serum.