Homemade Ranch Dressing Recipe

How to Make Ranch Dressing

Quick and easy 5-minute salad dressing. Make it thicker by using less buttermilk, and you have ranch dip for pizza or fries.  😉 

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Once you've made your own ranch salad dressing, you'll never buy the ready-made stuff again.

You can make ranch dressing from scratch with just a few simple ingredients, and it takes just 5 minutes!

Ranch dressing ingredients

• sour cream

• buttermilk

• mayonnaise 

• flat leaf parsley 

• fresh dill 

• fresh chives 

• garlic granules

• fine sea salt

• finely ground black pepper 

• fresh lemon juice

Sour cream

Sour cream is the base of this ranch dressing, making it creamy and tangy.

Buttermilk

Buttermilk adds additional tanginess and thins out the sour cream and mayonnaise, enabling a drizzling consistency. 

You can make your dressing thicker by adjusting the amount of buttermilk you add.

Mayonnaise

Ranch dressing needs just a little bit of mayonnaise to get that perfect, rich creaminess.

Fresh herbs

You must use fresh herbs to make this - the dried stuff just doesn’t compare.

Garlic

Garlic granules are the way to go here, folks. Fresh garlic tastes too strong as it's not cooked, so you get a raw garlic taste, which isn't pleasant.

Lemon juice

Add a teaspoon or two of lemon juice to suit your taste, but don't leave it out.

Salt and pepper

A tiny bit of salt is needed to bring out the other flavours. Finely ground black pepper is vital for a classic ranch dressing flavour.

Who invented ranch dressing?

Apparently, it was a guy called Steve Henson who moved to Anchorage, the Alaska area.

One day, he invented a new salad dressing for his work crew. But I'll let you pop over to Wikipedia for the rest of the story - it's a long one!

How to serve 

On burgers

On a simple salad

On a baked sweet potato

as a dip for chips or fries

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Yield: 200ml

Author: Jan Bennett

Homemade Ranch Dressing Recipe

Creamy and delicious 5-minute ranch salad dressing.

Prep time: 5 MinTotal time: 5 Min

Ingredients

• 125ml sour cream
• 60ml - 100ml buttermilk - depending on how thick you want it
• 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon fresh flat leaf parsley - finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh dill - finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh chives - snipped
• ¼ - ½ teaspoon garlic granules
• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
• ⅛ teaspoon finely ground black pepper - to taste
• 1 or 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice - to taste

Instructions

1. In a small bowl, mix the sour cream, mayonnaise and 60ml buttermilk (you can add more, if needed, in step 3).
2. Add the herbs, ¼ teaspoon of garlic, and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, along with salt and pepper.
3. Mix and have a taste, then add more buttermilk to achieve your preferred consistency. You can also add another ½ teaspoon of garlic if you prefer.
4. Adjust the taste by adding another teaspoon of lemon juice if you want more zing to your dressing.
5. You can enjoy this dressing straight away, but it's better after a rest of 15 minutes. Store any leftovers in a suitable container in the fridge and use within 4 days.

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