Sweet yellow nectarine blended with balsamic vinegar and olive oil to create a tasty dressing perfect for the summer. Delicious, healthy, and easy to make, this vinaigrette will become your summer go to dressing for your salads.
One of the best parts about summer is the abundance in fruits. Strawberries, peaches, nectarines, and cherries are some of my favorites. What about you? What are your favorite fruits?
I love being able to make my own dressing because it means that I can customize it to my taste. In this case, I decided that I wanted to make peach balsamic vinaigrette. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a peach on hand, but I did have a sweet yellow nectarine. I’m so glad I decided to use it. It’s sweet and light, perfect for my salad. I don’t know about you, but peach and nectarine are both tasty in their own way so it’s quite easy to interchange them for this recipe. You can use either nectarine or peach, but I recommend getting the yellow ones because it has both color and flavor.
Cut the nectarine into small pieces. Place them into a blender. Add a large strawberry, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. I added the strawberry for extra sweetness and for a slight tint of red. Then blend them until they become smooth or the consistency is to your liking.
Serve over your favorite salad. =)
Enjoy!
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Love making my own dressings! This one sounds like a winner!!
Thank you so much, Joanna! I’ve been obsessed with fruit based vinaigrette lately! Hope you’ll like this one! =)
This is right up my alley – looks delicious!
Thank you so much, Christine! I hope you’ll like the vinaigrette if you get the chance to try it =)
I’ve been making a lot of my own salad dressings lately. I think this would be a nice one to add to the fridge! Yumm.
This sounds so good. And it looks beautiful too!
Sounds lovely!
Sounds absolutely delicious! I think I’ll be making that one soon 🙂
This sounds so refreshing. I definitely want to try it out. A nectarine/cherry combo might be good too. Maybe I’ll experiment 🙂
I just bought peaches, so I might just try this dressing out with our salad tomorrow! I have been eating cherries likes crazy lately and before that strawberries. I love fresh fruit!
I know! Me too! Especially when the fruits are in season. So much flavor. I hope you’ll like this particular vinaigrette, Connie =)
Oh my… that is being made like so soon! Strawberries are in season and nectarines should be soon. YAY! And onion and garlic free! (We have severe food restrictions). How wonderful. 🙂
Hi Yanic! I’m so glad that you found a recipe that fits your food restrictions =) I like to keep my dressings as simple as possible. Most of the flavor will come from the fruits I use. I hope you’ll like this vinaigrette!
I always have nectarines in the fridge for snacking but never thought to use them for a dressing. LOVE this!
Thank you so much, Ann! I usually have either nectarine or peach in the fridge. When I wanted to create a dressing for my salad, I found a yellow nectarine in the fridge. So I used that. But I intended it to be peach at first =)