Craving a delicious dressing that adds vibrant flavor to salads, bowls, and snacks? This easy, oil-free Green Goddess Dressing is the perfect choice. Made entirely from plant-based ingredients, it’s creamy, refreshing, and filled with herby goodness. Ideal for anyone wanting a nutritious, clean dressing option, this recipe is a must-try! It's no oil, gluten-free, soy-free, and vegan.
Why This Vegan Green Goddess Dressing is a Gamechanger
Green Goddess Dressing has long been a popular choice for its creamy texture and fresh, herbal flavor. Traditionally, this dressing includes ingredients like mayonnaise or sour cream, but our vegan version offers the same creamy satisfaction without any dairy or added oils. Here’s why you’ll love it:
- Rich in Nutrients: With fresh herbs, leafy greens, and a blend of whole-food ingredients, this dressing is packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
- Oil-Free & Vegan: Perfect for anyone avoiding added oils or animal products, making it lighter and more heart-friendly.
- Versatile: This Green Goddess Dressing pairs well with salads, Buddha bowls, roasted veggies, and even as a dip for fresh crudités.
- Quick & Easy to Make: With just a few simple ingredients and a blender, you’ll have this dressing ready in minutes!
Enjoy this green goddess dressing on our fast and easy buddha bowl and green goddess tacos. It also pairs wonderfully with many salads, including the green goddess salad, southwestern salad, and easy rainbow salad.
Easy Green Goddess Dressing has 7 key ingredients
- Raw cashews
- Parsley
- Cilantro
- Green onion
- Garlic
- Coconut aminos
- Lemon
With only seven ingredients, the green goddess is creamy from the cashews and has a burst of freshness from cilantro and parsley. It is also savory from the onion, garlic, and coconut aminos. It has just the right amount of zing from the lemon juice.
This green goddess dressing recipe only takes 15 minutes to whip up! Feel free to use your mini blender to prepare this.
So, if you ever questioned this dressing because of its green status, you'll be pleasantly surprised at just how awesome this Easy Green Goddess Dressing is. It'll likely become your new go-to dressing for salads and bean bowls.
How to Prepare
- Start by preparing the cashews for blending. You can either soak them in water overnight to soften them. A faster method is to bring a small pot of water (about 2 cups) to a gentle boil. Add cashews and let them simmer for 3 to 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the cashews sit in hot water while assembling the rest of the ingredients.
- Rough chop the fresh cilantro and parsley. You'll want ½ cup packed of each. Add parsley, cilantro, chopped green onion, garlic cloves, coconut aminos, the juice from 1 lemon to a blender, and ⅓ cup of water.
- Take the cashews from the pot and give them a quick rinse under cold water. Strain and add them to the blender with the other ingredients.
- Blend on high speed for 15 to 30 seconds or until smooth and creamy. Enjoy!
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Frequently Asked Questions
This Easy Green Goddess Dressing can be used as a salad dressing, buddha bowl sauce, or dip. This dressing is the main sauce for our green goddess tacos. It's a perfect dressing on the Green Goddess Salad, Best Southwestern Salad and EasyRainbow Salad. It can also be a sauce on the Sofritas Bowl or the Best Blessed Black Bean Beauty Bowl. If you’re like me and you love to dip your pizza in a yummy sauce, this green goddess can be a delicious dip for the Veggie Pizza for One. This dressing can also be used as a base sauce to build your own pizza on an Ezekiel sprouted grain tortilla. In any way—a dressing, a sauce, or a dip this Easy Green Goddess dressing is irresistibly tasty.
A healthy salad drenched in an unhealthy dressing is counterproductive. Most salad dressings are packed with oil, sugar, artificial preservatives, and other highly processed ingredients, making them high in calories and low in nutritional value. However, what is fantastic about this Easy Green Goddess Dressing is that it is made with whole plant food ingredients and complements any nutrient-dense salad made up of leafy greens, other vegetables, whole grains, and legumes (beans, peas, lentils).
Store unused green goddess dressing in an airtight container (like a mason jar) in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Give it a good stir or shake before using as ingredients may separate.
Health Benefits of Going Oil-Free
Why opt for oil-free dressings like this Green Goddess? Removing oil from your diet can have several health benefits, especially if you’re aiming to reduce calories, manage weight, or improve heart health. Whole food sources of fats, like nuts and seeds, offer fiber, protein, and nutrients that oils lack. Plus, by focusing on plant-based, oil-free dressings, you’re enjoying more nutrient-dense and satisfying flavors.
For more no oil dressing and sauce inspiration, check out these other recipes.
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Easy Green Goddess Dressing (VEGAN, OIL FREE)
Equipment
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup raw cashews soaked (or gently boiled) and drained
- ½ cup fresh parsley roughly chopped and packed
- ½ cup fresh cilantro roughly chopped and packed
- 1 green onion both green and white parts, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 tsp coconut aminos
- 2 ½ Tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice about 1 lemon
- ⅓ cup water
Instructions
- Start by preparing the cashews for blending. You can either soak them in water overnight to soften. Or a faster method is to bring a small pot of water (about 2 cups) to a gentle boil. Add cashews and let them simmer for 3 to 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the cashews sit in hot water while assembling the rest of the ingredients.
- Roughly chop the fresh cilantro and parsley. You'll want ½ cup packed of each. Add parsley, cilantro, chopped green onion, garlic cloves, coconut aminos, the juice from 1 lemon to a blender and ⅓ cup of water.
- Take the cashews from the pot and give them a quick rinse under cold water. Strain and add them to the blender with the other ingredients.
- Blend on high speed for 15 to 30 seconds or until smooth and creamy. Enjoy!
Notes
- What to put this sauce on: This sauce goes beautifully on our chickpea buddha bowl, green goddess tacos, green goddess salad, and southwestern salad in a jar, a meal prep favorite.
- Leftovers/meal prep: Store unused green goddess dressing in an airtight container (like a mason jar) in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Give it a good stir or shake before using as ingredients may separate.
Nicole
I love this dressing/sauce; it is absolutely amazing! The recipe is easily versatile enough to use with other herbs, so I don’t waste things I have on hand. Most importantly though, it sparks up everything I put it on or in!!!
One of my favorite easy lunch uses has become adding this to precooked beans and freshly-wilted greens along with the steaming water to make a quick stew. I ladle it over some whole grains and top with fresh onion… so simple; hearty and delicious.
Thank you so much for the effort you have put into this project - your site has become my newest WFPB recipe resource!
Gigi & Sersie
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review, Nicole. We're so glad you love this dressing. We're also super grateful to hear our website has become a resource for you.❤️
Lillian Hughes
If I do not like cilantro, can't I just double the parsley?
Gigi & Sersie
Yes, absolutely. You can also throw in some fresh basil if you want. 🙂
Geri
delicious and goes on so many things
Pauline
This green goddess dressing is amazing with various salads.
Gigi & Sersie
Thanks for your feedback, Pauline. We're so glad you like it. Yes, the green goddess is so versatile.
Marsha
The Green Goddess Dressing is SO tasty, and very easy to make. It's my new favorite dressing, and I'm using it on practically everything.
Gigi & Sersie
Yay! That's wonderful Marsha! We're so glad you're enjoying it on so many things.