Olive Garden Salad and Dressing

This green salad with its dressing is wonderfully authentic in taste to the salad served at the "Olive Garden" restaurants. The dressing recipe makes enough dressing to cover a large bowl of salad. I only use two thirds of the dressing, but use more according to your taste. I like to use homemade extra large croutons in this recipe.

Category: Salad

Cuisine: Italian

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104 reviews 
Ready in 15 minutes
by hanan@home

Ingredients

1/2 cup Mayonnaise

1/3 cup White vinegar

1 teaspoon Vegetable oil

2 tablespoons Corn syrup

2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese

2 tablespoons Romano cheese

1 clove Garlic

1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning

1/2 teaspoon Parsley flakes

1 tablespoon Lemon juice

1 tablespoon Sugar (optional)

1 bag American blend Dole salad

4 sliced rings Purple onion (halved)

8 jumbo Black olives (pitted)

6 Banana peppers (pepperoncini)

1/2 cup Croutons

2 Roma tomatoes (quartered)

Parmesan cheese (freshly grated)

Pepper corns (freshly ground)


Directions

For the dressing: Mix the first eleven ingredients in a blender until well mixed. If this is a little to tart for your own personal taste, add 1 Tablespoon of sugar. For the salad: Pour 1/2 package of the salad blend into a large salad bowl. Top with 1/2 of the onion, olives, banana peppers, croutons and tomatoes. Add dressing to taste and toss well. Add the other 1/2 bag of salad and more dressing to taste. Toss well. Top the salad with the remaining onion, olives, banana peppers, croutons and tomatoes. Pass the grated parmesan cheese and black pepper mill at the table.

Reviews

☆☆☆☆☆

Dressing was pronouced delicious by all.

deeder5
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One of my family's favorites!

MADuttonDVM
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This was not bad, but probably not something I'll make all the time.

Erincpeters
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I added the sugar, which I'll opt of next time as we like it less sweet and I passed on the corn syrup. Overall I like this dressing and will continue to make it.

lolly1963
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This is absolutely nothing like Olive Garden's dressing. I followed the instructions exactly & no amount of tweaking brings it anywhere near the right taste. Sad to say, because I had such high hopes for it. Not good.

pickleface80

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