Healthy Ranch Dressing

This healthy and easy ranch dressing is creamy, flavorful and only takes 5 minutes to make! It contains plain yoghurt and a simple blend of spices.

Need a simple Healthy ranch dressing? Here’s the recipe for you. he goes out Then creamy and flavorful with just a few simple spices. Every time we serve it, it gets rave reviews! Perfect for salads or veggie sticks, it just comes together 5 minutes. Even better, it skips the additives, preservatives, extra salt, and sugar of store-bought salad dressings. Now that we have a homemade ranch dressing recipe that we love, I don’t think we’ll be buying it again! Here are all of our secrets to this homemade vinaigrette.

Ingredients for a healthy ranch dressing

What is ranch dressing made of? Most recipes include mayonnaise, buttermilk, onions, garlic, spices, and herbs. For this healthy ranch dressing, we decided to reduce the mayonnaise a bit. Our secret? Natural yoghurt! It makes the dressing a little lighter and adds a touch of probiotics to the yogurt. You need the mayo to add richness so the dressing will stick to the lettuce leaves, but not as much as you would in a standard recipe. Here are the ingredients you need for this healthy ranch dressing:

• Natural yoghurt
• mayonnaise
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Spices: garlic powder, onion powder and dried dill
• Optional: chopped chives or chopped spring onion

Adding chopped chives or chopped green onions gives the flavor a nice freshness. This takes it to the next level: but it’s also not necessary if you don’t have them handy!

Is Ranch Dressing Healthy?

Ranch dressing is not generally considered a healthy food. However, get the following: This healthy ranch dressing recipe has just 38 calories per tablespoon, compared to 73 calories at the store! So we would call this version healthy. It’s also gluten-free, keto, and low-carb. Either way, though, you don’t necessarily want to eat liters a day.

Who actually invented ranch sauce?

If you’re like us, you’re wondering how popular foods like ranch have become. Turns out ranch dressing was originally invented by plumber and cowboy Steve Henson in the 1950s. Apparently he invented the dressing while working as a plumber in Alaska, and then he and his wife opened a ranch in California called Hidden Valley Ranch. They started out selling the popular dressing in grocery stores and eventually sold the name and recipe for a whopping $8 million! Learn more about the history of ranch dressing here, if you’re excited.

Variation: Vegan ranch dressing

Can you make ranch dressing vegan? Yes! Here’s a derivative of this recipe: a vegan ranch dressing that’s just as creamy as this one. The secret? Blended cashews that add creamy body to the dressing that dairy swears by. It’s incredibly satisfying.

Ways to serve healthy ranch dressing

This healthy ranch dressing goes perfectly with any type of salad you make together! Here are some of our salad recipes where we would use it:

Recipes for healthier salad dressings

There are so many healthy salad dressing recipes you can make at home! There are so many possibilities; Here are some favorites to try:

This healthy ranch dressing recipe is…

Vegetarian and gluten free. For vegans, check out our Vegan Ranch Dressing.