The Best Ranch Dressing Recipe (2024)

Ranch Dressing Ingredients

With the exception of fresh dill, all of these ingredients are always in my fridge and pantry. As with all of my recipes, scroll to the bottom of the post to get all the measurements and a printable recipe.

• Skim Milk: In general, when it comes to milk, you can always go up in fat content, but not down. Since we are using skim here, you can feel free to use whatever milk you have on hand.
• Low Fat Mayonnaise: I love using low fat mayo in my recipes because it cuts calories without sacrificing flavor.
• Low Fat Sour Cream: The same goes for low fat sour cream. It’s just a lower fat content milk being used to make it. They don’t add anything weird to make it low fat.
• Lemon Juice: Normally ranch starts with buttermilk. We are using milk and lemon juice as a replacement since not everyone keeps buttermilk on hand. But you could certainly replace the milk and lemon juice with 1 cup of buttermilk.
• Fresh Dill: I love the taste of fresh dill in this recipe, and use the left overs to make my Pickled Eggs. But if you want to make this right now without running to the store, you can replace it with 1 teaspoon of dried dill.
• Dried Parsley: We use dried parsley in so many recipes, so we always have it on hand. If you would like to swap it for fresh parsley, use 1 1/2 tablespoons.
• Dried Chives: If you would like to use fresh chives, use 2 teaspoons.
• Garlic Powder
• Onion Powder
• Kosher Salt
• Black Pepper

Is Ranch Dressing gluten free?

Ranch dressing is naturally gluten free. If you are serving someone with a gluten allergy, double check all of your ingredients to ensure they weren’t cross contaminated in a facility that also produces gluten.

Is Ranch Dressing Keto?

Typically, Keto diets suggest that you avoid buttermilk because of all the added sugar in commercial buttermilk. Because we are using milk and lemon juice here, it is better than the commercial variety with added sugar. That being said, there is still 1 gram of sugar and 2 grams of carbs in 2 tablespoons of this homemade ranch dressing. So proceed with caution.

How many carbs in Ranch Dressing?

There are two grams of carbs in this easy ranch dressing recipe.

Can I use buttermilk?

Yes! Take out the milk and the lemon juice and replace it with 1 cup of buttermilk.

I am on a low sodium diet can I leave the salt out?

Absolutely. You will likely find that your taste is so adjusted to low/no salt, that you don’t miss it. Though if you have others in your home who aren’t on a low sodium diet, they might find this lacking something.

5 from 3 votes

Serves: 18 servings

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Please note that this make a little more than 2 cups worth of dressing. It keeps in the refrigerator for 1 week. If you don’t think you will use that much in that amount of time, this recipe easily cuts in half.

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