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Buttermilk Ranch Dressing recipe
Buttermilk Ranch Dressing recipe

Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

by Adrianna Adarme on Jul 26, 2013

Food blogger Adrianna Adarme pairs this buttermilk ranch dressing with her charred corn fritters recipe.
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Servings
3/4 cup buttermilk dressing
Course
Side Dish

Tags

Cookout July 4th New Year's Eve
Party Picnic Quick and Easy

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Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 3 tablespoons Greek yogurt (or sour cream)
  • ½ cup buttermilk, shaken
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 2 tablespoons minced shallot
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh italian parsley
  • 1 tablespoon minced chives
  • 1 teaspoon hot sauce of choice (I used Texas Pete)
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  1. In a small bowl, combine all the mayonnaise, yogurt and buttermilk until thoroughly combined.
  2. Mix in the garlic clove, shallot, Italian parsley, chives and hot sauce.
  3. Salt and pepper the dressing, adjusting the flavor as you'd like.

Before I started cooking, I had no idea I could make my own salad dressings. Now, I wouldn't think to not make my own. My go-to is usually a bit of champagne vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper. It's the dressing I use at least a few times a week. There are no measurements, just eye-balling it and adjusting as I go. When I want something a bit more indulgent, delicious, I change gears and make a buttermilk ranch dressing.

Ranch goes with everything. Absolutely everything. When I was a server in college, I learned that people love it with French fries, slices of pizza, smothered on their baby back ribs, in their burgers, and of course, on their salads. (Salads being the least important.) I was skeptical at first, thinking they were all sort of nut-so, but as soon as I tried a slice of pizza dipped in ranch, I was hooked. Call it gross. Call it trashy. It's probably a little of both of those, but it's also so, SO good.

If you've ever looked at the back of a ranch dressing bottle at the supermarket, the long list of ingredients might scare you. It shouldn't be that involved. Good ranch dressing has buttermilk, a bit of sour cream, maybe some mayonnaise and lots of fresh herbs. I had a few bundles leftover in my fridge and I figured a jar of ranch dressing was the place they should call home. If you're in the mood for a rich, decadent salad dressing that tastes fresh without a million ingredients, make this! You'll wonder why making the homemade version has taken you so long.

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About the Author
Adrianna Adarme

Adrianna Adarme is an author, enthusiastic home cook and food blogger who lives in Los Angeles, California. In 2009 she started her blog, A Cozy Kitchen, which has become a place people visit to hear entertaining anecdotes about daily life and to find delicious, comforting recipes from Adrianna's kitchen. A Cozy Kitchen has garnered attention from various publications and blogs, including features and write-ups from The Los Angeles Times, Refinery29, Saveur Magazine, Oh Joy, Rachel Zoe's Zoe Report and NBC Latino.

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