Homemade Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing (& Ways to Use It)

Briny, sweet, and tangy, this homemade sesame-ginger salad dressing recipe is the perfect choice for salads featuring kale, cabbage, bok choy, and other greens. 

It gives these kinds of salads and other raw veggies a lovely Asian-flavored spin. It’s also fantastic on cold noodles. In these photos, it’s served with Kale and Cabbage Salad with Baby Corn and Bok Choy.

Honestly, there’s not much more to say about this dressing recipe other than that it’s quite useful and I refer to it in a number of recipes on this site. It takes mere minutes to make, and while I’m not sure that doing so is more economical that buying it bottled, I think it tastes better!

Ingredients needed for this easy sesame-ginger dressing

• 1/3 cup neutral vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar or white wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons agave or other liquid sweetener
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
• 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger or bottled ginger
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds

You may already have some or all of these ingredients in your pantry!  See more easy vegan salad dressings.

Recipes using Sesame-Ginger Dressing

This dressing is called for a lot! While our recipe usually offer a choice between using bottled dressing and making this one, I often opt for this one. It’s super easy and takes mere minutes to make. Bottled sesame-ginger salad dressings are usually very good, but this recipe has the edge!

• Sesame-Ginger Cold Rice Noodles
• Sesame-Ginger Red Cabbage and Carrot Slaw
• Tatsoi Salad with Bok Choy, Daikon, & Oranges
• Cold Asian Noodle Bowls with Daikon & Carrot
• Composed Asian-Flavored Tempeh Salad
• Sesame-Ginger Tofu and Edamame Salad

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Yield: 1 cup (about 8 servings)

Sesame-Ginger Salad Dressing

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Salty, just slightly sweet and tangy, sesame-ginger salad dressing is the perfect choice for salads featuring kale, cabbage, bok choy, and other greens.

Prep Time 7 minutes

Total Time 7 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup neutral vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar or white wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons agave or other liquid sweetener
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari
• 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger or bottled ginger
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds

Instructions

1. Combine all the ingredients in a cruet or other bottle and shake up. Taste a little to see if you like the sweet, tangy, and salty flavor balance. Add more of anything that you’d like.
2. When serving or using in a recipe, shake before each use.
3. This dressing will keep for quite a while, refrigerated. Bring to room temperature before using.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 149Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 257mgCarbohydrates: 4gFiber: 0gSugar: 3gProtein: 1g

Nutrition data is always an estimate depending on program used to calculate and exact products used. This is given for informational purposes only and accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

Explore some tasty salads you can use these dressing with.