• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Healthy Canning
  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Recipes by category
    • Recipe Index
    • Drying food
    • Other online sources
  • Equipment
    • General Equipment
    • Pressure Canning
    • Steam Canning
    • Water bath canning
    • Food Dehydrators
  • Learning
    • Learn home canning
    • Home Canning Safety Topics
    • Unsafe home canning practices
    • Home canning concepts
    • Ingredients for home canning
    • Issues in home canning
    • Learning resources
  • Contact
    • Sitemap
    • About
    • Contact Page
    • FAQ
    • Media
    • Copyright
    • Privacy
    • Terms of Use
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Equipment
  • Learning
×

Home / Dry Mixes / Ranch Mix DIY

Ranch Mix DIY

Filed Under: Dry Mixes, Salads

This homemade DIY Ranch Mix is so light, fresh and tangy that it will have you swearing off of commercial stuff for life.

It’s almost as convenient as ranch from a store bottle. All you have to do is put a bit of mayo (or other) in a cup, mix in a teaspoon or two of this mix, and you’re done.

Everyone loves it. Even men will reach for second helpings of salad with this stuff on the lettuce.

You can also use it for really healthy dips.

To be clear, this is NOT a canning recipe. Do not attempt to can salad dressings and dips made from this.

Contents hide
  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Ranch Dressing DIY Mix
    • 2.1 Ingredients
    • 2.2 Instructions
    • 2.3 Nutrition
  • 3 Recipe notes
  • 4 Usage notes
  • 5 Recipe source
  • 6 History of Ranch Dressing
  • 7 Nutrition

The recipe

Yield:  Makes 150 g (1 cup) of dry mix.

Print

Ranch Dressing DIY Mix

This homemade DIY Ranch Mix is so light, fresh and tangy that it will have you swearing off of commercial stuff for life.
Course Salads
Cuisine American
Keyword Sauce
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 1 cup of dry mix (150 g)
Calories 28kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 150 g buttermilk powder (¾ cup)
  • 2 tablespoons parsley (dried)
  • 2 teaspoons dill weed (dried. Or more depending on taste)
  • 3 teaspoons onion powder
  • 3 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 3 teaspoons onion (dried, minced. Or another 1 ½ tsp onion powder)
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon salt (or salt sub)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until the mixture is a fine powder.
  • Store in a sealed container, jar or bag in a cool, dark place.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 28kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 2g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 24mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g

Recipe notes

  • Store this in a basement pantry or cool cupboard. Milk powder does have a long storage life (check the best before date on the milk powder you use), but that can be shortened if exposed to heat or high storage temperatures, which will cause it to go rancid. For that reason, do NOT attempt to “dry can” this. The heat from that will just have the opposite effect of shortening the shelf life. Plus, there’s just no need to.
  • You can multiply the size of the batch by 2, 3 or 4 times. In fact, if your audience is a fan of ranch, you will probably end up needing to after your first test batch. If you do, though, mix all in a large bowl first, then blend in batches.
  • For the second onion ingredient, the recipe as originally found called for dried onion in two forms, powered and minced (as do most Ranch spice mixtures.) You can just additional powdered if that is what you have and you don’t have minced.

Usage notes

  • Dressing: Mix 2 tsp (5 g) with ½ cup (4 oz / 125 ml) in total of any of the following, combos are fine: sour cream, mayo, Miracle Whip, regular or Greek yoghurt. Fat-free versions of any of the above work great.
  • Dip: Mix 1 tablespoon (10 g) or more to taste with ½ cup (4 oz / 125 ml) sour cream.

Increase by a few teaspoons the amounts of dry mix used in dressing / dip if your folk are big fans of Ranch. Or, conversely, use less for a milder taste.

Add milk to thin if desired.

Recipe source

Canning , freezing, dehydrating… food preserving and homesteading group files on Facebook

History of Ranch Dressing

See Cooksinfo for the history of Ranch Dressing.

Nutrition

Per 1 teaspoon (3 g) of the dry mix.

  • 28 calories, 24 mg sodium

If using a salt sub, sodium goes down to 13 mg per teaspoon.

  • Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 1 to 2 teaspoons, 1 point; 3 teaspoons, 2 points; 4 teaspoons, 3 points
  • Weight Watchers SmartPoints®: 1 teaspoon, 1 point; 2 to 3 teaspoons, 2 points; 4 teaspoons, 3 points

When mixed with something like fat-free Miracle Whip, it ends up being 150 calories per half-cup (8 tablespoons.) Compare that with up to 150 calories for just 3 tablespoons of some commercial low-fat ranch dressings in a jar — and, it won’t taste anywhere near as good.

(In terms of Weight Watchers Points+ / ProPoints, when mixed with fat-free Miracle whip, half-cup is 4 points+, 1 full cup is 5 points+. Compare that to many commercial ranch dressings which are a point a tablespoon.)

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

Filed Under: Dry Mixes, Salads

Reader Interactions

If you need FAST or relatively immediate canning help or answers, please try one of these Master Food Preserver groups; they are more qualified than we are and have many hands to help you. Many of them even operate telephone hotlines in season.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

SEARCH

HealthyCanning is a sub-project of cooksinfo.com. Read More…

What's New in Home Canning

What's New in Home Canning

Quote of the day

“A good food [canning] plan calls for empty jars… ready to be refilled when each new canning season rolls around.”

— USDA Radio Homemakers Chat. 29 June 1945.
Photo of miscellaneous canning equipment
kitchen window with fruit bowl
Ship with lifeboats
Ingredients for home canning
Home canning learning resources
what is pressure canning. Photo of pressure canners
Steam canning
water bath canning

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Contact

  • Contact
  • Media
  • FAQ

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases at no cost to you.

Copyright © 2021