Top 8 dressings to perk up fish dishes, hot vegetables, and salads

Be a snazzy dresser and underplay it to bring out the best of what lies beneath
Top 8 dressings to perk up fish dishes, hot vegetables, and salads

The addition of a tiny amount of dressing can be better than the sum of its parts

It's easy to overdo things when dressing a salad – the dressing wearing the salad, not the salad wearing the dressing. Like clothes, it should flatter, not hide.

The delicate salad leaves of summer, the delicious sweetness of butterhead lettuce, fresh Irish tomatoes, finely grated carrots, fine sticks of raw beetroot, garden peas, and creamy broad beans are perfect just the way they are, especially when they are Irish and haven’t crossed oceans.

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