5-Minute Vegan Caesar Dressing

DELICIOUS! Just made it and I’m eating it for breakfast!

Dairy isn’t the only reason why the original dressing isn’t vegan. There’s also anchovies!

This looks so yummy, and so easy to make! I’ve been trying to eat healthier, even though I’m always so busy. It’s nice that there are only six ingredients. There’s still lots of flavor in there, which is always good for a salad dressings!

This looks delicious! I am sharing this with my FB group “Super Quick Plant-Based Recipes” – we LOVE ideas that take only 5 minutes! Thank you for coming up with this!

Oh wow! I’m going to try this. Caesar is my favorite dressing.

YUM! Just made this tonight. Tastes exactly like traditional Cesar dressing. Thanks!

I can’t even begin to describe how AMAZING this was. I paired it with homemade croutons and your Parmesan “cheese” and it was out of this world!!! Every recipe I’ve tried from your site has been phenomenal.

Oooo looks lush!! I’m going to try this tonight for dinner! I shall be making my first vegan Caesar salad

<3 Thanks for the recipe <3

Mmm mmmm mmm….delicious! Thank you for this!

This was incredible….I think I could put it on everything! Thank you for this recipe!

Minimalist baker saves the day AGAIN! I just had to have some Caesar salad tonight with my dinner, so I tried this recipe. Can you say winner!!!? It is delicious with some romaine lettuce. One suggestion would be adding about 1-1.5 tbsp of tahini for a little more bite to the dressing. Love it!!!

I am in love with this dressing! Just wondering if there is anything you could substitute the brine juice with. I’ve made this recipe so many times since discovering it last month — my consumption of brine juice is far outpacing my consumption of capers. I hate to keep buying new bottles when there are loads of capers left. Maybe pickle or olive brine?

Hi There, I have made so many of your recipe’s and just love your blog. You make it possible to go vegan with so many wonderful recipes!! My son can’t have citrus so can I sub with ACV or something else…

I made this today to take to a cottage for the long weekend. It is really delicious and easy.
I may try it on grilled romaine lettuce, or just other grilled veggies. I like that it tastes really rich, like regular ceasar dressing, but it is much less fat.

Omg I literally cannot stop eating this!! I’ve had it almost every day since I’ve discovered the recipe. Perfect summertime meal. #Love

There’s a restaurant in my town that makes a very thin, light milky tarragon dressing for a farmer’s market salad (romaine, corn, dates, polenta croutons, almonds, cherry tomato, avocado…yum!) would love to figure out a vegan version of the dressing….have you ever made such a dressing? Love your recipes!

This is fantastic! My sister has celiac and a dairy/anything cow allergy and I was so excited to find this recipe. I just finished making it and it tastes delicious!!

Omg I just made this it’s so so so good!! Now I’m going to sit down & devour a whole bunch of romaine leaves. Thanks?

Looks fantastic! I make a similar dressing with hummus as a base. The addition of capers sounds good.

PS Looking forward to buying your new cookbook!

Just made this with my own hummus recipe and it was truly delicious! All the flavour, but without the anchovies and cheese! This will definitely become a staple in our house.

And yet another one of your recipes becomes a staple in our home. What would we do without you!?

My absolute favourite dressing! My husband and I make it at least one a week!

This is an outstanding and flavorful recipe. The only small things I changed: in the interest of completely eliminating oils from my diet, I Vitamixed some raw cashews and a little water to make it richer/creamer. Also only used one teaspoon of the brine to cut back on the sodium content. (I found some capers packed in white balsamic vinegar brine. They are very tasty.) And I definitely added the optional maple syrup. Next time, I will double or triple this recipe. Thanks!

This dressing is so amazing that I can’t even! The only problem with it is that the recipe doesn’t make enough. ;) Thank you for this, definitely going to be a staple at our house!

This dressing was fantastic! I made a double batch. I LOVE capers so I knew I had to make this. I threw everything into the food processor and pulsed it together. I wanted pieces of caper through the whole dressing. I was also feeling lazy to chop up the garlic. ;) I didn’t have spicy mustard so I used coarse mustard instead. This recipe is most definitely a keeper. Thanks!!!

This dressing was so good! It tastes a lot like my mom’s famous (and very non-vegan) caesar that we have for special occasions. Really pleased to now have a dairy-free version!

I ended up doubling the recipe (except for the garlic, which I left at 4-5 cloves) and it was still garlicky enough to have me marathoning gum at my desk. (This might be best for dinner, when you’re home with access to a toothbrush ha.)

Thanks for this recipe – will no doubt become a staple!

Made this dressing tonight and tossed it in a kale salad with sunflower seeds and it was a big hit! Will definitely make again. Thank you!

Another delicious and easy recipe from Dana!!!!
Just made it and put over Romaine Lettuce and made my own croutons from Pita Bread.
So delicious and now about to have 2nd’ s.
Look out garlic police……Lol

I love vegan caesar dressen.. There in one called cashew caesar dressen. Also very good unfortunately NOT vegan.

Gonna try this one!!

Great idea – I played with the ingredients you listed and came out with an excellent caesar dressing!
Thanks :)

Oh my oh my oh my. I LOVED caesar dressing – but whenever I tried to make it it just didn’t work that well (I tried adapting a vegan mayo but the lemon made it separate and… yuck). This is SO amazing. I want to make it right now. For breakfast.

Made this today and it is THE BEST! Absolutely love it (and hubby did too).
This is definitely not going to last five days in our home ? Love your recipes Dana!
Hugs from the Netherlands!

This dressing is freaking awesome – also love that you have links so basically everything can be homemade (if you wish). As someone who has been just putting olive oil, salt & pepper on their kale for nearly 2 years, I was badly in need of new way to enjoy my favorite green. A big win, I love it!

Hi Dana, Thanks for a great dressing recipe. It is my favorite dressing now. I have made it a couple of times. The last time I made it, I used Meyer lemons, and zest. It was spectacular! I added some freshly chopped parsley to it. I have even used it as a spread for a yummy cucumber sandwich. Love, love, love!

Soooo so good!!!!! Make it ASAP!

This recipe was so easy to make (I just threw everything in a blender) and tasted amazing!! It’s a keeper, thank you!

This was delicious! I love the idea that it doesn’t have tahini, bc I don’t usually have that at home! My husband says go a little lighter on the lemon zest,…I used a little extra! I also added some nutritional yeast flakes! Total yummy-ness! I did not add any evoo or maple syrup! Just a little hot water. I did put it into my Magic Bullet to blend. Oh, and I added a bit more capers, bc it was the end of the jar! Yum!!
5 stars!!!!

I love garlicky! And this looks so amazing! I will definitely try it! I’m already thinking what I should pair it with.. and I hear my stomach grumble. You made me so hungry now! :)

This is delicious! Maybe a little thinner than I thought it would be, but that is probably a function of the type of hummus used. Thanks!

Gently nudging my mom to a plant based diet and she’s a huge Caesar salad lover. She approves! It was delicious. Thank You!!

Love it!
Super easy! Because my homemade hummus is already pretty garlicky, I used roasted garlic in the dressing to keep the flavors balanced. Yummy!

My new favourite Caesar Dressing! And it is SO easy and fast! (Added white miso to make it a little thicker because I added too much water at first and run out of hummus.)

Made this using homemade hummus, and roasted garlic in addition to regular garlic. I was in allium heaven. Thanks for the recipe!

I made this a few days ago for a family birthday party and it was SO GOOD. It was a huge hit! I made it again for lunches this week and threw everything in the blender. I added the capers last so the dressing kept some texture. Thanks Dana!

Never would have guessed to use hummus but it definitely got the job done. Another great recipe to add to the collection.

Tried this dressing tonight! It hit the spot and so easy. Vinaigrette salads do get boring after awhile. Was very garlicky and briny but I enjoyed it, could also easily be modified with less of the brining juice/garlic to tone that down a bit.

I’m so excited to try this… it looks delicious.

Just tried the Vegan Caesar dressing and it is out of sight! Love the creaminess. (Used my own roasted garlic hummus, 1 tsp. maple syrup and 1 TBSP olive oil.
Thank you!

Just made this and it tastes awesome! Thanks for sharing

Separately these ingredients scare me! I’m not a mustard or caper fan. But together – pure magic, this dressing is awesome. Very reminiscent of Caesar dressing! Thank you!

Dana! You never cease to amaze me! I always use a cashew base for my caesar dressing but using hummus is brilliant as I also ALWAYS have it on hand. I think I’ll add a dash of vegan worcestershire and dig in! Thank you for making cruelty free eating so easy and delicious! :)

I made the dressing using leftover homemade hummus and it was absolutely delicious.

Now I’m filled with regret that I didn’t see this before lunch! My kale salad could have been so garlicky delicious.

Oh my goodness, I’m totally making this ASAP! Yummy!! :)

Niiiiiiice! Never would have put these ingredients together for a vegan version of caesar dressing, I was a bit concerned it would contain something funky like tofu in but YAY, it’s all ingredients I love and will happily have in my kitchen anyway!

I LOVE the idea of using hummus as a base for salad dressing. So healthy and delicious!!

This dressing is insanely good and soo easy, Dana you outdid yourself

This is awesome! I was just looking for a recipe *just like this* a couple days ago, probably at the same time you were writing this post. I didn’t find one I liked so I made a mustard vinaigrette. But I’m going to make this one today! Thank you!

Thank you for this recipe. I really needed to do something with the massive jar of capers I purchased at Costco!

Yum!

Just made this cos I had all the ingredients on hand and it is so tasty! I can’t wait to use later for dinner! :)

What is brining juice? That’s the only thing I don’t have? Is it the caper juice?

Can’t wait to try!

Yummy! I’ve made a cashew-based vegan Caesar dressing before and it was delicious. What a great idea to use hummus! Can’t wait to try :)

Classic Caesar dressing actually is dairy-free. It gets its creaminess from emulsifying the lemon and olive oil together. Egg yolk helps the process of binding together the acid and oil. The salad itself has no dairy aside from the cheese.
That being said, I’m still going to try this hummus version. Yum!

Now my salad dressing also has protein in it! Huzzah!

um yeah. I WILL be making this! Question – I like the flavor of capers, but dislike biting into them – can you see any reason that this couldn’t be thrown into a blender for a quick whirl?

I swear you are in my head sometimes girl! I used to order a kale caesar salad from a restaurant called Steamworks back when I lived in Durango, CO. and I’ve been craving it this week. (I live in Portland now.) I don’t like store-bought dressings and have felt lazy about trying to make a caesar dressing the real way while also wanting to avoid the dairy AND satisfy my craving. You have come to my rescue!

I’ve never commented before but I should add that I have started following your blog over the last 6 months and make your recipes all the time. In fact, we liked the plantain tacos so much last time that they’re on the meal plan again for this week. Thanks for the great content!

Ahh we make something very similar with tahini! I will have to give this hummus version a try. Aren’t capers little flavour-power-nuggets? Love them.

I’m obsessed with this hummus salad dressing idea!! I love putting tahini in my dressings; using hummus instead is an incredible idea. Thanks for sharing!

Never thought about using hummus as a base,but it sound tasty and garlicky is right down my alley.
Thanks, I have a new dressing to add to my vegan dressing list.

This dressing sounds great! I’d love to throw this on some romaine with a few croutons. Yum!!