I love the convenience of bottled salad dressings, but equally important is knowing exactly what all the ingredients are in those type of convenience foods. If I buy salad dressing from a store I prefer to buy the kind that needs to be refrigerated. The ingredient list on those bottles are usually a little easier to understand. I have made the following dressings from scratch: Caesar dressing, lemon vinaigrette, balsamic vinaigrette, avocado-cilantro dressing, and cashew-lime vinaigrette. Recently, I decided that I needed to learn how to make ranch dressing from scratch. Let’s face it. When you make things from scratch you usually know what all the ingredients are. After looking at some other recipes online I put the following ingredients together because they sounded good to me. And guess what? I’ll make this again and again.
Homemade Ranch Dressing (and Dip)
1 (16 oz) tub of sour cream (I used regular but you could use low fat or no fat if preferred)
1 garlic clove
1 handful of dill
1 handful of chives
1 handful of flat leaf parsley
1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, optional
salt
fresh cracked pepper
buttermilk to taste
1. Peel one clove of garlic and mince or slice thinly with a knife on a cutting board.
2. Add salt to the minced garlic and smash with a fork.
3. Add the minced garlic to a mixing bowl and mix in the sour cream.
4. Mince one handful of dill, finely.
5. Mince the chives finely.
6. Mince the parsley finely.
7. Add the fresh herbs to the sour cream mixture.
8. Squeeze a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice and add to the dressing mixture.
9. Mix the herbs and sour cream.
10. Add more salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste. (You could use the mixture as is for a thick ranch dip).
11. Add buttermilk and stir until you reach the desired consistency for salad dressing or dip.
12. Use for salad or dip!
Homemade Ranch Dressing (and Dip)
Ingredients
- 1 (16 oz) tub of sour cream (I used regular but you could use low fat or no fat if preferred)
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 handful of dill
- 1 handful of chives
- 1 handful of flat leaf parsley
- 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, optional
- salt
- fresh cracked pepper
- buttermilk to taste
Directions
- Step 1 Peel one clove of garlic and mince or slice thinly with a knife on a cutting board.
- Step 2 Add salt to the minced garlic and smash with a fork.
- Step 3 Add the minced garlic to a mixing bowl and mix in the sour cream.
- Step 4 Mince one handful of dill, finely.
- Step 5 Mince the chives finely.
- Step 6 Mince the parsley finely.
- Step 7 Add the fresh herbs to the sour cream mixture.
- Step 8 Squeeze a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice and add to the dressing mixture.
- Step 9 Mix the herbs and sour cream.
- Step 10 Add more salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste. (You could use the mixture as is for a thick ranch dip).
- Step 11 Add buttermilk and stir until you reach the desired consistency for salad dressing or dip.
- Step 12 Use for salad or dip!
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