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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.
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Finding a way to ditch store bought ranch dressing has been on my to-do list. I’m so glad you posted this. So many of the recipes I’ve seen require the chopping of several fresh veggies. I’m not opposed to fresh veggies, but spending lots of time making home-made dressing isn’t high on my priority list for time right now. :0) This is totally doable!
this is so awesome! My son eats Ranch on everything. So I’m really happy to find a recipe that I can make a dip or a dressing out of really easily. Thank you!
I will give this a try with Greek Yogurt which is typically less processed.
Have you tried making your own sour cream? All you need is 1 cup heavy cream, 1/4 cup buttermilk and a sterilized mason jar. Put your two ingredients in your hot mason jar. Put the lid on and let it sit on your counter for at least 24 hours. At that point check for consistency. When it is, stick it in the fridge. Once you have made your starter batch then you can skip the buttermilk and use a 1/4 cup of the sour cream with a cup of heavy cream.
Ok…the timing of finding this recipe in my inbox (my first by the way) could not have been anymore perfect. I was searching on line homemade ranch dressing recipes when I switched over to my email to find this homemade ranch (dip/dressing)! :-) Anyhow…can’t wait to try it!
love it! Especially that there is no salt in this (everything usually has WAY too much) thanks!
What a great idea! I just hope my kids approve this whole changing the way we eat is throwing my older two off a little! :) But I am sure in time they will get use to it! Thanks for sharing!
Checked the ingredients on the store bought Ranch dressing in our fridge last week and the second ingredient was MSG! Third was high fructose corn syrup. I threw it away pretty quickly, so finding a “from scratch” Ranch dressing was definitely on my to do list.
I am excited to try this recipe. I am curious to see, if by adding a milk product and making it runnier would, in fact, make it a nice salad dressing to replace our store bought ranch.
Lisa – the timing of this couldn’t be more perfect! I’m making a recipe for taco soup that calls for a packet of ranch dressing seasoning, and I thought, there has got to be a way I can do this myself without all the yuck of MSG and other weird ingredients. And behold – you post this recipe! Thanks so much!!
I do half sour cream half Greek yogurt and then add milk till its the right consistency for salad dressing. We also add cottage cheese to ours for more texture. YUM!