Homemade Ranch Dressing Seasoning Mix Recipe

This homemade ranch dressing seasoning mix recipe empowers you to enjoy your favorite dressing without the guilt. A preservative-free way to enjoy ranch. Recipe includes directions on how to make classic buttermilk ranch and fat-free ranch dressings.

Course Salads & Dressings

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings /2 cup

Calories 76kcal

Author Deborah T

Ingredients

3 Tablespoons of dried parsley
1 Tablespoon of dried dill weed
1 1/4 Tablespoon of garlic powder
2 teaspoons of salt
1 Tablespoon of onion powder
1 1/2 teaspoons of black pepper

Liquid Ingredients for Ranch Dressing

1/4 cup Buttermilk
1/3 cup Mayonnaise

Instructions

Put the parsley and dill weed in the cup of a food processor. These two herbs are "larger" than the other ingredients, so they need a few quick whirls to make them a little bit smaller. Five or six pulses should do it!
Add in the other seasonings. Give the food processor two zaps to blend everything evenly.
Place the seasonings into a tightly covered containers for storage. It can last for months—if it lasts that long!
This makes just over 7 Tablespoons of seasoning mix for 7 cups of salad dressing.

Notes

If you don't have a food processor, a blender will also work. Or, you can leave the parsley and dill weed larger, if you don't mind the size difference.

To Mix Buttermilk Ranch Dressing:

Mix one tablespoon of homemade ranch dressing seasoning mix to ¼ cup of buttermilk and ⅓ cup of your favorite mayonnaise. Mix well and refrigerate until you're ready to use it.

To Mix Fat-Free Ranch Dressing:

Mix one tablespoon of this ranch seasoning mix with ¼ cup of fat-free milk and ⅓ cup of nonfat Greek yogurt. Of course, this version also requires refrigeration until you are ready to use it.

How to Make Buttermilk

If you don't have buttermilk any of these options will make a good buttermilk substitute, so choose whichever one you have the ingredients for. We prefer using the lemon juice first choice or cream of tartar, on the rare occasions that we don't have any.

1 Tbsp. Lemon juice to 1 cup milk
1 ¾ tsp. Cream of Tartar to 1 cup of milk
1 Tbsp. White Vinegar to 1 cup milk

Makes Enough Dry Ranch Mix for 7 Cups of Salad Dressing!

This dried ranch seasoning recipe makes about 7 ½ Tablespoons of herb mix, which will make about 7 cups of salad dressing, so the equivalent of 3.5 16 oz bottles of ranch salad dressing.

We blend ours in the single serving cup of our Ninja blender and store it in this simple dressing carafe.

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