The Best Homemade Ranch Salad Dressing

Restaurant level ranch.

The ratios are all wrong. First of all, if you are using low fat buttermilk, the only kind available in some areas, you will want to mix it 3:1 with plain Greek yogurt. It's the same culture, so it will act and taste like full fat buttermilk. A better mayonnaise/sour cream/buttermilk ratio is 1:1:3. I used 0.5 cups each of mayonnaise and sour cream and added buttermilk until I liked the consistency. It took about 1.5 cups of buttermilk. I added freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste, which for me was half of a very plump lemon, and then started in on the seasoning. The volume of dressing I made was a lot larger, so I tripled the parsley and chives, doubled the salt, onion, and garlic powders, and added a generous grind of black pepper...and a good few drops of hot sauce. A pinch of cayenne would have been better, but I had Tabasco on the counter from a different recipe. Taste as you go and remember that dry herbs will become more assertive as they rehydrate. I added a little more dill than the recipe called for, but I find dill overwhelming in most cases, so a teaspoon was plenty. At the end, I was quite pleased, but I had to make a lot of changes.

Taste great.

The Best

Watery, doesn’t taste like ranch

Served with chicken tenders, a really good ranch.

Add 8 oz. of softened cream cheese and beat all ingredients together.

This recipe is good but I'll scale back the dill a bit next time.

used greek-style coconut yogurt as a shortcut for the mayo / sour cream / buttermilk (also made it in the container for less clean-up). agree that the recipe needs a bit more lemon juice. also added caper brine to an extra tang. was surprised how easy and quick it was to make ranch dressing in a pinch.

Made the other day. Used regular milk instead of buttermilk, left out garlic and onion to accommodate low fodmap diet, and used green yogurt instead of sour cream. still delicious

The sour cream is overpowering. This recipe is disgusting. A packet of Hidden Valley ranch seasoning, buttermilk, and mayo is far better.

Very good ranch dressing recipe. My 4 year old loves this with cucumbers!

I'll never buy Ranch dressing again!

I thought I had chives, but ended up using thyme instead and I can't taste much difference. Definitely added more than one teaspoon of lemon juice. Filled a decent sized bottle!

This recipe calls for pamona's pectin.

I’ve made this exact recipe and also using alternatives - either way was spot on. ALTs: subbed buttermilk for milk+Tbsp apple cider vinegar; swapped dry herbs for fresh

Really good! Didn't have sour cream so I used plain yogurt. Will definitely make again (and again and again).