Lemon Sauce? *update* with Pic!
Posted by Capture on Jul 20, 2008 · Member since Jul 2007 · 3981 posts
I wanted to make a coucous salad with spinach, strawberries and a lemon sauce--but I'm not sure what to do for the sauce, like I don't have any kind of recipie for one--I just though te flavors would go well together--I could just use lemon juice, but I thought a sweeter lemon dressing would taste better. Any one have any ideas?
Here's a list of ingredients I have that could potentially go int oa sauce/dressing:
Fresh lemons
raw sugar
olive oil
sesame oil
soy sauce
common spices
I probably have other stuff too--but I can't think of anything else that I have that would be useful at the moment...well anyways--any suggestions would be appreciated!
I think you could just do lemon juice, olive oil, s and p, maybe a little sugar..and whip it all up! Maybe some basil or oregano?
eta: I forgot about the strawberries...no basil or oregano..maybe some balsamic vinegar..do you have that?
balsamic would be awesome. maybe even marinate the strawberries in balsamic vinegar and a bit of sugar first and then add some of the marinade to the dressing. mmmmmm. i dont normally like dressings/vinigarettes, but that sounds good to me.
I have white vinager and I think I have seasoned rice vinager...hmmm...yeah...maybe lemon juice, sesame oil, sugar and rice vinager? that could work maybe...II might have to do some testing! To the kitchen!
Do you have any mustard, preferably Dijon? It is very tasty with lemon juice, olive oil, basil and some salt and pepper. Sweeten it up with some sugar and you are good to go. Plus mustard is an emulsifier so your lemon sauce will be nice and creamy!
i ended up doing a two step dressing--I mixed 3/4 cup rice vinager with 1/4 sugar and poured that on the spinache and strawberries and let it marinate--mean while i mised together lemon juice, sesame oil, maple syrup and soy sauce and stired that into the couscous--then I mixed both together--it turned out really really yummy! I think I'll even submit the recipie!
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w202/Capture79/Food/SpinachandStrawberryCouscous.jpg
Oh, man, Capture, you rawk. Toadilly. ;D
Oh, man, Capture, you rawk. Toadilly. ;D
Thank yabbit :) I submitted the recipie--so hopefully it will make it through the submission process! It really is very tasty--probably the best recipe I made up so far!