My easy homemade ranch dressing from scratch is the perfect way to dress a salad, or be a dipping sauce for your favorite snacks, veggies or wings.
Making your own sauces and dressings is always the best route. They taste so much better, and you can adjust the herbs, spices, and ingredients exactly to your taste buds’ preferences.
This ranch dressing goes perfect with my EXTRA CRISPY AIR FRYER WINGS. Dip the wings or the veggies to get that perfect creamy balance.
Dip some fresh cut up veggies into this jar of goodness.
This easy homemade ranch dressing is no different. It’s totally delicious and customize-able at the same time. Grab your favorite herb, mine is dill and a few other ingredients and the dressing is done in minutes. If you love garlic as much as I do, try adding a few extra cloves like I did. The flavor will get more intense the longer it sits.
Everything simply goes in a mason jar and gets blended up with a immersion blender (and if you know me, this is my favorite kind of recipe!). You can also use a small food processor, but I prefer my immersion blender and a mason jar. This way I only have to clean one thing and I can store it right in the jar too after. Easy clean up is always a plus in my book.
I bet these would also be so good with some saucy hot wings. You can sub the dressing in this cobb salad I made here and it would be fantastic with that too. You can grab the homemade Whole30 mayo recipe on this post as well if you want to try it out.
I had so much fun creating this simple ranch dressing on Instagram Live last night. If you are ever on Instagram, give me a follow for fun cooking episodes like that. It’s fun to test out the recipe and get your feedback
Let’s get this dipping or drizzling party started, shall we? Grab your carrot sticks, cucumbers, bell peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, and let’s go dipping.
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EASY HOMEMADE RANCH DRESSING
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp fresh dill finely chopped (or more)
- 2-4 cloves garlic
- 1 cup sour cream
- ½ cup buttermilk or greek yogurt
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion salt from Trader Joes or onion powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients except the dill into a mason jar or food processor bowl. Blend together until garlic is fully blended. Add chopped dill, mix with a spoon. Adjust garlic, lemon or seasoning to your liking.
Notes
Irina
We make this so often, perfect dressing to my salads or even chicken wings!
lena
Thank you Irina! Love to hear it’s been in your regular rotation!
Julia
I love homemade dressings that are easy to make. This hit the spot.
Toots
This dressing is great on any salad. Tried it on radicchio and yum.
Tamara
The best ranch dressing I’ve ever had!!
Kary Lynn Vail
This looks great I can’t wait to try it. My brother is on a very strict diet how many calories per serving guesstimate?
lena
Hey Kary, I just went ahead and updated the post to have all the nutritional value added in the recipe card, you can find it at the bottom of the card.
Leah
Love this easy to make, delicious recipe! It’s the perfect ranch, better than anything you could buy on the shelves or get in a restaurant!
lena
Thank you so much Lean, happy you loved the recipe.
Taylor
This ranch is so dilly and delicious the mayo in it really makes it as well
lena
Thank you, Taylor, glad you love the dilly part. The mayo adds that extra something to it.
Sandy w
Delicious. And so easy.
Sveta
So yummy! Love the combo of dill and garlic 🙂 definitely a staple now!
Inna
Love it! Thanks for the recipe! What’s something I can do to make it a bit thicker?
lena
Thank you Inna. You can add a little more mayo to it to make it thicker or add less buttermilk.
Luda
Never buying ranch at the store again! This recipe is so delicious.
Angie
Such a good recipe and super easy! Let’s just say my “taste test” involves more than a couple of table spoons. Love that I know exactly what’s it in. Super excited to use it as dio, dressings, and whatever else!
Elane
Nothing beats homemade ranch dressing! Now that I made this one, never buying it again. Thank you for sharing your amazing recipes. Xo
Gina
Ladies! This recipe is literally the best ever!! My husband keeps begging me to make more every 2 days!! It’s that delicious! You will never buy ranch at the grocery store once you try this recipe I guarantee it!! Love it!!!
Renata
So so delicious
Rodika
you know your a European when u eat all ur food with ranch .. this recipe it’s a most!!!!