Recipe: Smoked Maple Ginger Vinaigrette
Spy that dressing in the top corner? It's made from Mei Mei Smoked Maple Ginger Sauce!
Hi everyone! It's getting to be the time of year that we welcome fall flavors. Whether you want pumpkin spice EVERYTHING or if you prefer your pumpkin spices to stay within the confines of a pie crust, consider another unexpected autumn flavor: Mei Mei sauces! Made with local maple syrup (Smoked Maple Ginger Sauce), cranberries (Cranberry Sweet & Sour Sauce), and apples (Apple Hoisin), these ingredients make us think of brisk weather, falling leaves, Thanksgiving dinners, apple picking, and all the fun stuff that comes with fall in New England.
At home, I've been using our Smoked Maple Ginger Sauce for a lot of Asian-influenced dishes like Stir-Fried Greens or Smoked Maple Ginger Noodles with Tofu. But the flavors are versatile enough, especially when mixed with other ingredients, that they work well with all sorts of meals. Since we started using our sauces as the base for salad dressings in our food truck market bowls, I've been making delicious vinaigrettes in an instant at home. They're good on just about every kind of salad. Above, we've tossed roasted sweet potatoes with pickled cranberries, wheatberries and goat cheese over greens (if you want the recipe, you'll have to wait for our cookbook, coming early 2019!), but feel free to play around with your own combinations.
I make the salad dressing using the following basic formula: 1 part Mei Mei sauce to 1 part vinegar to 3 parts oil. That's it! Which might looks something like this:
1/4 cup Smoked Maple Ginger sauce
1/4 cup rice vinegar (or apple cider vinegar, or vinegar of your choice)
3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil (or oil of your choice)
Stir or shake, and BOOM. You've got a delicious salad dressing in about 3 minutes. Taste to see if it needs a pinch of salt, or a bit more vinegar, or whatever else you want to add. Toss it over anything you like and enjoy.
Come grab a bottle of Mei Mei sauce at any of our locations, or online here!
