Homemade Taco Salad Dressing
This homemade taco salad dressing is creamy, zesty, and couldn’t be any easier! It’s made with dairy-free yogurt as the base, lime juice, cilantro, and other herbs and spices.
Taco salad is one of my favorite easy go-to meals. It’s filling, easy to make, and so flavorful! After I started sharing my taco salad bowls on Instagram, I always got the question, “what dressing do you buy?” I’m a firm believer that dressing can make the salad, like my viral Japanese Restaurant Style Ginger Dressing, and I also love making recipes just like this Taco Salad Dressing at home!
This taco salad dressing is ready in under 10 minutes and is the perfect addition to your taco salad.
Table of contents
Why You’ll Love This Taco Salad Dressing
- Mix and match. This recipe is great on a taco salad, but it’s also perfect for a creamy topping for a burrito bowl.
- It’s so easy! This salad dressing comes together so quickly and adds so much flavor!
Recipe Ingredients
See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities.
- Coconut yogurt. I love using Culina coconut yogurt as the base for a creamy dressing without any dairy.
- Cilantro. Crucial for that taco salad dressing flavor.
- Spices. This combo of spices adds much of the flavor to the coconut yogurt base.
- Lime Juice. The acidity from the lime juice is key to the taste.
Subsitutions and Modificaitons
- Greek yogurt. You can easily swap the coconut yogurt for Greek yogurt if you tolerate it for the perfect added protein boost.
How to Make Taco Salad Dressing
Here are the simple steps, with photos, to make this recipe. Find full instructions in the recipe card.
Step one. Add all of the ingredients to a large, wide-mouthed jar.
Step two. Blend with an immersion blender until creamy and smooth.
Step three. Serve over taco salad or burrito bowls.
Michelle’s Tips & Tricks
- Remove the stems from the cilantro. Personally, I love cilantro no matter what, but I find that remove the stems can take away some bitterness and help the texture!
- Add more or less lime juice. Depending on what brand of yogurt you use, your dressing may be more or less tangy. I suggest adjusting the lime juice to taste!
Recipe FAQS
I recommend storing this dressing in a sealed glass jar in the fridge for about 3 days.
Mayo-based dressings are what you’re most commonly going to see with a creamy dressing, but I love using coconut yogurt! It gives a similar creamy flavor, but it’s a bit lighter overall!
How to Build a Taco Salad
- The base: Romaine lettuce or butter lettuce.
- A protein: Diced chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, and/or black beans.
- The crunch: Plantain chips or tortilla chips
- The acid: Pickled onions
- & and of course, the dressing!
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Other Gluten-Free Salad Dressing Recipes…
- Japanese Restaurant Style Ginger Salad Dressing
- Olive Garden Copycat Salad Dressing
- Anti-inflammatory Turmeric Dressing
Homemade Taco Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- ½ cup coconut yogurt
- 3 tbsp avocado oil
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp water
- Salt and pepper
- ½ tsp onion powder
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp dried oregano
- ¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a large, wide-mouthed jar. Blend with an immersion blender until creamy and smooth, adding more liquid if needed for a thinner dressing if desired.
- Taste the dressing and season further to taste. Serve over taco salad or burrito bowls.
Notes
