This Shallot Vinaigrette makes even the most basic pile of mixed greens out of the box taste wonderful.A liberal drizzle of this salad dressing feels like you’re sitting down at a nice restaurant, and it couldn’t be simpler to make!  Our New Go-To Salad Dressing I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I’m making salad at home, I feel like a deer in the headlights.Even though I know how to eyeball a basic vinaigrette (oil, acid, salt, maybe some dijon mustard or honey), I’ve grown to dread the uncertainty and unoriginality of it all.

Sometimes one yearns for more—a salad dressing that can be liberally enjoyed!  This dressing fills that hole.It has a trifecta of shallots, chive, and garlic.Anything chive makes me giddy.

There’s honey, but it’s not sweet—just mellow.There’s vinegar, but it’s not sour.And there’s shallots, garlic, and chives, but it won’t make you feel like you could blow down an army with combo onion-garlic breath.  It is perfectly balanced, so satisfying, and makes you actually want to eat more salad.

In short, it’s our new perfect, go-to salad dressing.  A Trick for Shallots In our Chinese cooking, we’ve learned over the years to manipulate the strength and flavor profile of garlic and onion.When and how you add it can change a lot—whether you pour sizzling hot oil over fresh garlic, wait to add the garlic to the end, or start it off in hot oil at the start.  Recently, I learned a new

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