Fwd: Sweet Savvy Recipe #209 - Buttermilk Ranch Dressing & Dip Mix

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8 August 2008

Greetings!

A reader asked me for a recipe for ranch salad dressing (the dry mix contains refined sugar and refined salt), and I thought it would be a great idea while we still have so many wonderful summer vegetables to enjoy. So I did some experimenting and came up with a dry mix that tastes pretty much like the famous brand, but a whole lot better! It's not so salty and the herbs are fresher. My husband and I both loved it!

This can also be a seasoning for a wide variety of foods. Type "ranch dressing" into your favorite search engine and you'll see the many possibilities.

Debra :-)

BUTTERMILK RANCH DRESSING DRY MIX

This can be used in any recipe that calls for dry ranch dressing mix.

You can mix this in any amount, store it in a jar, and use it as needed.

When creating this recipe, I used small containers of herbs from Simply Organic, which I found in my local natural food store (they contain eight teaspoons of herbs, so if you are combining these little containers to make this, use eight teaspoons of salt and evaporated cane juice).

Simply mix together equal amounts of the following dry ingredients:

salt (use a natural salt such as sea salt or Himalayan salt)

dried bell peppers (I used Simply Organic "veggie pepper" that contains black pepper, onion, garlic, celery, and bell peppers...if you don't use this, add some black pepper along with dried bell peppers)

garlic powder (powder, not garlic salt)

onion powder (powder, not onion salt)

evaporated cane juice (Sucanat or Rapadura, you could also substitute any dry sweetener you like, but it will taste different)

parseley flakes

thyme

basil

My husband and I liked it as above, but you may adjust to add more or less of any ingredient to suit your taste.

I like about 6 teaspoons per cup of whatever you are adding it to.

BUTTERMILK RANCH SALAD DRESSING

The brand name dressing calls for adding the dry mix to a combination of buttermilk and mayonnaise. But when searching for buttermilk dressing recipes, I found a wide variety of ratios for the buttermilk and mayonnaise. And, sometimes yogurt or sour cream was used instead of the mayo.

For the test recipe I used one cup buttermilk and 1/4 cup mayonnaise, and that was a good ratio for me. I also added about a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar so as to not lose the tang of the buttermilk when I added the mayo.

So play around with it and see what best meets your needs for thickness, flavor, and fat.

BUTTERMILK RANCH DIP

The original recipe calls for adding the packet of dry mix to sour cream, but you could also use yogurt or any other dip base.

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