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!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon parsley dried
- 1 teaspoon dill dried
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon basil dried
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- sour cream for serving
Instructions
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Mix together the first six ingredients down to the pepper. Store in an airtight container.
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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.
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Save the remaining dry spice mixture in spice cabinet or pantry for another day.
I do something similar, but I use 1/2 mayo like one commenter did…and I mix the seasonings in with the mayo. It stores in the fridge for months, and the flavours are already fully developed in the mayo, so you just add 1 part mayo/seasoning mix to one part sour cream/yogurt/milk and you’re ready to go!
Has anyone made this with Greek Yogurt instead of sour cream?
Hi there. Yes, some of our readers have.
I make ranch dip like this one with Fage and it’s awesome, just a little thicker than sour cream. You can add a little bit of olive oil if you want it thinner.
Would this work to use only mayo as the base? I am unable to have yogurt, sour cream, or buttermilk.
Hi Melanie. That is not something we’ve tried. You might also consider a plain non-dairy yogurt.
I make something similar, only I add about 1/4 cup of milk kefir. This adds a really nice tang to it.
oh, sounds like a great way to use kefir! I am assuming you use it instead of the sour cream?
Am I supposed to use Dill Seed or Dill Weed? Thanks!
You should use dry dill weed.
I thought it needed a bit of salt flavor, so I used garlic salt instead of garlic. Also we did not have any basil in the house (gasp!) so I added freeze dried chives. It tasted great! As a side note, we can’t have mayo based dips in the house since I have a kiddo allergic to eggs. So sour cream dips are perfect for us. :-)
This stuff is great and very easy to “tweek” to your liking. I make it with ” Johnies Garlic Bread Seasoning from Costco, dried chives and I add it to tast to plain Greek yogurt mixed with Mexican table sour cream ( thinner ) until it has a taste and “dip ability” that I like. I use it as a veggie dip and salad dressing ( dipped on my fork).
Turned out good ! Added a little more onion and garlic to suite our family.
I use plain Greek yogurt instead of sour cream and add just a little touch of season salt. SO GOOD! I am very excited to have found this!
it does not taste like ranch dressing, it’s a dill dressing.