Crudités in the context of "Appetizer"

A salad dressing is a sauce for salads, a condiment used on virtually all leafy salads. Dressings may also be used in preparing salads of beans (e.g., three bean salad), noodle or pasta salads and antipasti, and forms of potato salad. A dressing may even be made for fruit salads. Salad dressings can be drizzled over a salad, added and tossed with the ingredients, or offered "on the side". The functionality of some of these sauces has been extended, meaning they can be served as a dip (as with crudités or chicken wings).

Pinzimonio is an Italian dipping sauce made with olive oil, salt, pepper, and occasionally wine vinegar, which is served with raw vegetables (crudités) typically cold. It is used similarly to bagna càuda, but is simpler and served cold.

Pinzimonio is popular in the area around Rome, with preparations sometimes including lemon juice. The sauce is served in small cups, one per diner. In the summer, it eaten as antipasto. The sauce is also popular in Tuscany. Vegetables eaten with pinzimonio include baby artichokes, celery, endives, fennel, and sweet capsicum. During the Renaissance, fruit and vegetables were used in banquets as decoration. Over time, a practice developed where the produce was dipped in the sauces of the dishes they decorated, and by the 19th century the dip was replaced with olive oil. The name is a blend of pinzare ('staple') and matrimonio ('wedding'). In areas of southern and central Italy (including Rome), it is known as cazzimperio.

Blue cheese dressing is a popular side sauce, salad dressing and dip in the United States and Canada. It is usually made of some combination of blue cheese, mayonnaise, and buttermilk, sour cream or yogurt, milk, vinegar, onion powder, and garlic powder. There is a blue cheese vinaigrette that consists of salad oil, blue cheese, vinegar, and sometimes seasonings.

Most major salad dressing producers and restaurants in the United States and Canada produce a variant of blue cheese dressing. It is commonly served as a dip with Buffalo wings or crudités (raw vegetables).