Spicy Sweet Salad Dressing Recipe (Vinaigrette) (2024)

FAQs

Is the vinaigrette at chipotle spicy? ›

This chipotle vinaigrette is smoky, spicy, and a little sweet.

The French have decided that the perfect ratio for a vinaigrette is 3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar. For my personal taste, that's a little too oily — but it's totally up to you.

The Basic Vinaigrette Formula

The most basic ratio for making a salad vinaigrette is: one part vinegar (or other acid) three parts oil.

It comes standard with every salad, but it isn't available in the assembly line in the store, or as an add-on in the app. The vinaigrette has a tangy and smoky flavor that's a simple way to level up anything you order at Chipotle. All you have to do to get your hands on some is to ask for it in-person.

To make this recipe, you'll want to haul out your blender, plus four ingredients, including red-wine vinegar, honey, canned chipotles in adobo, and dried oregano (not counting basics like salt, pepper, oil and water). In Chipotle locations, they use their chipotle marinade in place of the canned chipotles.

Generally speaking, the healthiest salad dressing will be a vinaigrette like balsamic or oil and vinegar, while Caesar, ranch or anything with the word “creamy” will be the unhealthiest. The exception? We like products made with healthy swaps—think Greek yogurt in place of mayo or heavy cream.

Balsamic vinegar: Makes a bold, slightly sweet dressing that is wonderful on green salads with fruit, such as apples, strawberries or peaches. Red wine vinegar: Packs a punch and works well with other bold flavors and bright veggies, like tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumber, cabbage and more (think Greek salads).

Ranch Dressing

The ranch is hands down America's most beloved salad dressings. It is made from a number of ingredients such as buttermilk, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic, onion, chives, salt, and pepper.

Red chili salsa is the spiciest salsa that Chipotle offers. But if you like it even hotter, you can add a bit of chile de árbol to nudge the Scoville units up to where you want them. Either way, it's a delicious tomatillo-based salsa that's full of bright, spicy flavor.

Is Chipotle's Tomatillo Green-Chili Salsa spicy? Chipotle's tomatillo salsa is considered their medium spiced salsa. It is slightly spicy, but not overbearing. By making it at home, you can control the spice level even more!

Is Chipotle flavoring spicy? ›

Chipotles impart a relatively mild but earthy spiciness to many dishes in Mexican cuisine. The chilis are used to make various salsas. Chipotle can be ground and combined with other spices to make a meat marinade – adobo.

Chipotle's hot salsa draws on chile de árbol, which range from 15,000 to 30,000 Scoville units, for its punch. Once the chiles are mixed with other ingredients in the salsa, the heat is reduced significantly.