Recipe for red wine-lemon vinaigrette?

[JennS]

I've been eating the best, springiest chopped salad at Jane restaurant in NYC over the past few weeks. It has various green market vegetables -- asparagus, red pepper, cucumber, etc, and I get it with grilled chicken, but the dressing is really the best part. It's advertised as Red wine-lemon vinaigrette and I'd love to make it at home. I can taste a lot of dill in it, but am not sure what else, and don't know the proper proportions. Does anyone have any recipes/suggestions so I can make this myself?

Thanks!

[sfumato]

Check out Nigella Lawson's Greek Salad... it might give you a start on the proportions.

http://sweetnicks.blogspot.com/2006/0...

If you take out the onion, you get the following:

Ingredients
1 tablespoon dried oregano
Black pepper
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
200ml (0.84 cups) extra virgin olive oil
Pinch of salt
Juice of ½ lemon

It looks like a lot of oil, but I've used the whole batch of onions in vinegar+oil in a big greek salad before, and it was actually just fine.

Also, if you like them raw/lightly pickled, try her recipe for onions (follow the link)- they are wonderful! I usually use 2 tbsp of vinegar and an entire red onion.

[monavano]

Nigella's recipe seems to have a great deal of oil. Generally, the ratio is 1 part vinegar to 3 parts oil.
Here's an easy one that would be more than enough for your salad.
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2-1 teaspoon dill (fresh)
salt and pepper to taste
3 tablespoons evoo

Whisk together all ingredients except oil. Taste for seasoning and adjust. Slowly stream in oil until emulsified.

www.houndstoothgourmet.com

[sfumato]

If you use my increased vinegar amount (2 tablespoons) and assume that you can get about 2 tablespoons of juice out of 1/2 a large lemon (not at all unreasonable), you have 1/4 cup acid (4 tablespoons) and a little over 3/4 cups of oil. That's pretty close to your 1 to 3 ratio right there.

I do reduce the oil to 3/4 cup, but thought it might be useful to provide the actual conversion for the copy I found online.

[JennS]

Thanks. I'll try this one and substitute fresh dill for the dried oregano.