Creole Ranch Salad Dressing
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1⁄3 cup sour cream
- 1 fresh garlic clove, diced fine
- 3 tablespoons buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons vinegar
- 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, diced fine
- 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 3⁄4 cup mayonnaise
- salt, to taste
- black peppercorns, cracked to taste
directions
- Combine the sour cream, garlic, buttermilk, vinegar, and basil in a food processor or blender.
- Process this for 20 seconds.
- Add the crushed red pepper and the mayonnaise.
- Process for another 20 seconds.
- Season the dressing with salt and cracked black peppercorn to suit your taste.
- Process dressing another 15 seconds.
- If not serving immediately, place dressing in a container.
- Tightly seal container and keep the dressing refrigerated until use.
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Reviews
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I am done scanning ranch dressing recipes- this is the one I'm sticking with. It's fresh, tangy, herby, and not sweet. I could just sit and eat it off a spoon. Since you didn't specify, I used white wine vinegar, and I didn't exactly measure the basil, just filled my palm with chopped herb and tossed it in. It has body, but is not thick- you can coat your salad ingredients without using so much that it's a lettuce soup. I'm very pleased, and while the recipe says 4 servings, I tend to toss my ingredients with just a little dressing until they are all coated, so for me- this is 8 servings. Love it lots- thanks for posting!
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I love being able to use the fresh basil from my garden and so it was nice to be able to use it in this ranch dressing. I did use some kefir instead of the buttermilk, as that was what I had. I did use less mayo than specified - I don't like a predominant mayo taste in salad dressings - and this worked out quite well. This was mixed with coleslaw mix and made a nice accompaniment to ribs this evening.
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I doubled the crushed red pepper flakes and it wasn't as spicy as I had hoped it would be. Next time I may use a blend of Italian seasonings, because the basil was very prominent in this recipe. It did have a "zing" that I lived very much though! Thanks for posting. Made for Saucy Senoritas for ZWT5.
Tweaks
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I love being able to use the fresh basil from my garden and so it was nice to be able to use it in this ranch dressing. I did use some kefir instead of the buttermilk, as that was what I had. I did use less mayo than specified - I don't like a predominant mayo taste in salad dressings - and this worked out quite well. This was mixed with coleslaw mix and made a nice accompaniment to ribs this evening.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
WiGal
Butternut, Wisconsin