Making catalina dressing is simple and only requires a few materials from your kitchen. It’s incredibly easy to make and tastes somewhat better than store-bought food. Since homemade food usually tastes better, it is superior. Use this in cooking, salad dressing, or as a marinade.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 10 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup red wine vinegar
- ½ cup canola oil
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon dried celery flakes
- ½ teaspoon salt-free Italian seasoning blend (such as Mrs. Dash® Italian Medley)
Instructions
- Blend together sugar, red wine vinegar, canola oil, ketchup, paprika, onion powder, celery flakes, and Italian seasoning in a blender until smooth.
- White wine vinegar can be used instead of red wine vinegar.
- Olive oil can be used instead of canola oil.
Reviews
Very very tasty
I have tried three other homemade Catalinas over several years. This is the best! A keeper for sure. I used a tablespoon less sugar, used celery seed and used a tiny bit less. Didn’t have Italian seasoning so combined dried basil, oregano, thyme. It is great!
I used the red wine vinegar and extra light oilve oil . It it so good . Using this for my pasta salad .
Delicious dressing. Will make again. Had to substitute celery seed for celery flakes. Also used Penzys Italian herb mixture. Both worked well.
Liked it. My big tip: to lower the calorie and carb count, use monk fruit instead of sugar. Tastes exactly the same.
No changes it’s just like I remember from being a kid I liked it a lot . Thank you
easy and very good, I have made twice.
Love this salad dressing!
I was in the middle of making taco salad when I realized that our Catalina dressing had gone bad. I turned to the internet to see if there was something that I could use instead when I came up on this recipe. Now the only problem that I have is keeping enough of this homemade Catalina in the house. My daughter loves it on everything she’ll eat it on her chips and she’ll eat it on everything she actually has started to eat salad which he never used to do! So thank God for this recipe I finally got her to eat salad! If they had a 8 star rating I would give them 10.
Very good, I hate the stuff in bottled dressings. I used half the amount of celery seed vs flakes. Also used grape seed oil. Made the perfect amount for my dressing container.
I added a little more sugar also I didn’t have any of the spices except paprika. So I added onion and garlic powder. Now I can’t get the bottled stuff, it just tastes gross. This is the best dressing ever!
This is better than store bought! I don’t say that lightly. My kids love it. My husband loves it! We were recently visiting family and they only had the bottled stuff. We all missed this homemade dressing. I don’t even think about buying it anymore.
Wow, this was so easy! This is so good! Just reduced sugar to 1/4 cup (as many suggested) and chilling in the frig for tonight’s taco salad.
While this did not taste bad, it was not a BigMac sauce knockoff because the Big M has mayo and pickles.
Even though my red wine vinegar was a little sketchy, this turned out fabulous. I didn’t have celery flakes, so I used celery seeds. Sweeter and runnier than store bought, but that just means a smaller amount goes a long ways. I will be using this recipe instead of store bought from now on!!!
It turned out great. It was definitely better than what I buy In the bottle
Quite good. I did not use so much sugar. Will make it aagin as it is a favorite now.
I didn’t have quite all the ingredients… I substitued celery seed for the celery flakes, garlic powder instead of onion powder, and basil instead of italian seasoning. Very pleased with the way this turned out! So close to bottled! I’ll be making this often!!
Love this recipe. Might use apple cider vinegar, olive oil next time and see how stevia tastes.
I find it a bit sweet. Next time will half the sugar. I added chopped shallots and celery salt.
Delicious recipe. I used a blend in equal parts red wine vinegar and braggs apple cider. Used smoke paprika instead of regular, and added about 1/3 of a small red onion. Pulverized in my la machine. Perfect for our chicken salad tonight!