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Sweet Onion Dressing

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The dressing was a crowd-pleasing sweet onion recipe that we’d used at Old Lahaina Luau. It's made with a fresh, uncooked sweet onion, that gets puréed with cider vinegar, sugar, Dijon mustard, and oil. Try it on our Maui Kale Salad with cabbage, spicy peanuts, and potato chips.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes about 2 cups

Ingredients

¼

cup apple cider vinegar

½

cup sugar

1

medium sweet onion, quartered

2

teaspoons celery salt

2

tablespoons Dijon mustard

¼

teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1

cup neutral oil

Need to make a substitution?

Preparation

  1. In a blender, combine the vinegar, sugar, onion, celery salt, mustard, and black pepper and process until smooth. With the blender on its lowest speed, gradually add the oil in a steady stream until the dressing is thickened. Transfer to a jar or sealable container and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

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Reprinted with permission from ‘Cook Real Hawai’i’ by Sheldon Simeon and Garrett Snyder, copyright © 2021. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Photography copyright: Kevin J. Miyazaki © 2021

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