It’s always fun to see what people come up with during the Crazy Ingredient Challenge. I’ve pinned a few recipes but I’ve never made someone else’s CIC recipe.

Until now.

For this month’s Mustard and Strawberries challenge I had considered doing a salad with strawberries and honey mustard dressing, but that wasn’t creative. It never occurred to me to make a dressing! Pure genius. And pure deliciousness.

Strawberry Poppy Seed Dressing

Ingredients:

• 1/2 C (5-7) fresh strawberries, stems removed and cut in half
• zest and juice of 1 clementine
• 2-3 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 1/3 C extra virgin olive oil
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 1/2 tsp poppy seeds

Steps:

1. In a food processor combine strawberries, clementine juice/zest, honey, and mustard until smooth. With the machine running stream in olive oil. Season with S+P to taste, if desired.
2. Remove the blade from the food processor and stir in poppy seeds.

*This recipe is adapted from Cindy at http://www.hunwhatsfordinner.com/2014/02/strawberry-poppy-seed-dressing-crazy.html?m=1*