Posted on 08/22/2008 4:36:07 PM PDT by Sonny M
Here is the question, in terms of both safety and taste.
Can you cook or fry with salad dressing?
I know you can marinate with some oil type salad dressings (alot of folks use italian salad dressing to marinate chicken, steaks and pork chops, etc).
However, can you actually fry foods using say, creamy salad dressings? Like creamy italian or ranch style dressing?
Or, also a weird but strange question, if you are eating something and pour creamy style dressing over it, can you put it into the fridge and reheat (probably via microwave) later on and eat it again, safely?
I know this is odd, but me and a few friends were talking this one over, and the question of why can't salad dressing be using to cook with or creamy style dressing, why can't it be warm or served over hot food and stuff like that came up.
If any freepers out there do use salad dressing, especially creamy style italian dressing for cooking or frying or some other unconventional cooking way, please post and let me know, I really appreciate any and all answers you can provide.
That would be curry “powder”, not “powerder”. I swear I proofread!
That was almost the exact recipe I used to make, except I left out the mushrooms, cheese and almonds (they all seem like competing flavors). Instead, I used using more stuffing mix and more broccoli. It was excellent!
Frying anything containing corn syrup or sugar is going to burn at those temperatures. If it was a good idea, you would have known about it by now.
damn dsl...
The creamy dressings aren’t much different from condensed soup.
Put a chunk of butter on 4 chicken breasts, preferably boneless, and then add sour cream, cream soup, and/or creamy salad dressing, until almost covered.
Bake at 425 for 45 mins.
Serve with roast potatoes, and green veggies.
:-D
Other than using it as a marinade or brushing food with it on the grill..
I would not advise it.
Pinging a few friends for their input..
If your’re talking deep frying, I would say no.
Thanks Sandrat!
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This is a little off track, but I once saw Paula Deen make a grilled cheese using mayo instead of butter to grill it. It looked golden and delicious.
In response to the thread title: Hell yes!
Good recipe Sandy.
I use Italian/balsamic on grilled chicken all the time(and taters ;)
Well, no. you cant like deep fry as the other ingredients in the dressing are gonna burn.
“Coat potato wedges with Italian dressing place”
Gonna have to try that, minus the oregano.
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Salad dressing has too much water content to be a good for frying. Suppose you were to heat the salad dressing slowly to allow the water to boil out. The remaining solids would start to burn once you turned up the heat to frying temperatures.
Use the salad dressing as a marinade or a flavoring to poach your meat.
Using mayo instead of butter for grilled cheese sandwiches is a common practice in the South.
The internet is your friend when it comes to recipes.
Carlo is a Freeper cooking expert!
Do not try to fry creamy dressing. It will scald. You might be able to use Itaian dressing if it has enough oil in it. You could always add some vegetable oil to it.
Marinating with Italian is good for grilling. It’s actually good with fresh caught salmon. That’s is far is I will go with that stuff though.
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