#29 Ranch Dressing

Dangerously Good / Umm It's gone it was so good / Super Easy 

  I found this one through pinterest and the name doesn't lie.  The name is  The Best Homemade Ranch Recipe.  If you go to the link you will see step by step pictures.

  This was better than I thought it would be and so much better than the bottle kind.  It will be forever a staple in our house.  Although I didn't follow the recipe to the T I did use the same spices and 1/2 cup of each sour cream, buttermilk, and mayo.  

  A tip from another ranch recipe was to check your labels on your sour cream to make sure it contains milk.  I did this at the store and you'd be surprised at how much extra stuff they add when there isn't a need to do so.

  So from the few blogs I've found recipes on it seems to be a pretty standard list of ingredients give or take a few things.  The one below makes a lot of the spice mix so you just add to the liquids when you want.  Just to test it out I scaled down the amounts and we were happy with it.  It's thick enough to use as a dip and you can thin it out with more buttermilk to use as a creamy dressing.  I used it for salad and dip and liked it as it was.

 

 The Best Homemade Ranch Recipe

Ranch is a staple in my house.  In fact it gets it's own spot on the food triangle.  But we are also ranch snobs, which means we spend a lot of money on that white creamy goodness because we want the good stuff.  I have always preferred the homemade ranch to store bought but have bought plenty of bottles in my day.

Last week I came across a BYU Creamery Ranch Dressing recipe from "One Good Thing" by Jillee.  While I have lived in Utah for almost 10 years I have never had BYU's ranch.  But it looked good enough I decided to give it a try.  And I must say this ranch is AMAZING and has quickly became our new favorite.  We even used LITE buttermilk, LITE sour cream and LITE mayo and it was so good.  Didn't taste at all like the lite version in the stores.  So much yummy ranch flavor!

Ingredients:

Black Pepper ¼ C
Parsley Flakes 1 1/2 C
Garlic Salt ½ C
Kosher Salt 2 T
Granulated Garlic ¼ C
Granulated Onion 3/4 C
Dill Weed 2 T

Procedure:
1. Combine all ingredients, store in an airtight container. Makes about 3 ½ cups of dry mix
2. To Make Dressing, whisk together 2 T of mix with 2 Cups each of mayonnaise and buttermilk 1 ½ Cups sour cream, & 1 t Lemon Juice. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Makes 1 ¾ Quarts

We bought all of the spices in the bulk section at WinCo (love that store) and spent about $2.50, THAT'S IT!

So I started by putting all the dry ingredients into a bowl