I was browsing through the $5 Dinner Mom’s website when I came across her ingenious idea to mix up a big batch of seasonings at
one time for an easy homemade Ranch dressing. Once your spice mixture has been made it’s a very simple process to add your perishable ingredient whenever you’re in the mood for some homemade dressing. Talk about being efficient! Now we prefer a Ranch dip over a dressing at our house (especially since it magically makes my 6-year-old eat twice as many carrots as normal) so below is a modified version that turns Erin’s spice mixture into a Ranch dip instead of a Ranch dressing. Enjoy!
Ranch Flavored Dip
From the $5 Dinner Mom
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon dried dill
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- Sour cream, for serving
Instructions
- Mix together the first six ingredients down to the pepper. Store in an airtight container.
- When you are ready to make the dip stir 1 tablespoon of the spice mixture together with ½ cup sour cream. Serve with fresh sliced veggies or whole-wheat pretzels.
- Save the remaining dry spice mixture in spice cabinet or pantry for another day.
I really like you , your recipes, and your blog, so I hate to leave a bad review, but I want to warn others before they waste ingredients on this. I thought this turned out pretty gross. It vaguely tastes like ranch, but has a very strong dill taste, not much other flavor, and just tastes off. It is also too spicy– too much pepper for sure!
I added 1 t lemon juice, a dash more of garlic powder and onion powder, 1 1/2 t Real Salt, and used Greek yogurt (the additions were added AFTER following the recipe to make it palatable) Tried the addition of honey as suggested in the comments and didn’t notice a difference. Just a warning that this does NOT taste like ranch dip and I don’t think I like whatever it does taste like!
My kids absolutely ADORE this recipe. I cut back on the pepper a lot and we use greek yoghurt. We have done it with finely sliced green onion instead of the onion powder, and fresh parsley too. I love that if you have any of the fresh ingredients you can just use them instead. 1tbsp fresh for 1tsp dried.
Also note – if you want a true ranch flavour you do need to use the dreaded fake mayo. I admit – it is the best for this recipe from a non-real stand point. But seeing as how that completely defeats the purpose – Greek Yogurt it is for us!
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YUM! I just made this (didn’t have any onion powder) and it is delicous! Thanks for the recipe.
We’re using this mix of spices as a dry rub for crock pot buffalo chicken lettuce wraps. I’m hopeful that it’ll come out tasty!!
I experimented and tried the seasoning with nonfat greek yogurt, olive oil mayo and then sour cream. The Greek yogurt with seasonings was not bad but still needed work. The olive oil mayo was just weird (and I didn’t feel good about eating it either). The full-fat sour cream won in my book. But, I will have to say it isn’t exactly like Ranch. Hopefully my kids will accept it though!
Every other recipe I’ve tried from this site has been really good. I was disappointed with this one though. Too much dill, too much pepper and just not very palatable.
Also try mixing this with greek yogurt. Very good!