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Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing (Made from Scratch)

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Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of.

Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of. | APinchOfHealthy.com

Ranch dressing is one of my favorite things ever! And I love all the versions of ranch. Today I am re-creating one of my favorite ranch off-shoots: cilantro lime ranch. It is like a little fiesta in my mouth!🎉💃🏼

Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of. | APinchOfHealthy.com

Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of. | APinchOfHealthy.com

I am a little bit obsessed with making really great dressings, dips and sauces from scratch. It started as a hobby, y’all. I would go out to a restaurant and quickly become obsessed with re-creating some delicious dressing or sauce I enjoyed.

This one is not an outright copycat though. I have had different variations of cilantro lime ranch. So I wondered if I could take my existing ranch dressing recipe and make it into my own cilantro lime ranch.

And I am calling this one a WIN, y’all! ✅🙌🏻

Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of. | APinchOfHealthy.com

I made this to go on some tacos (recipe for those coming very soon!), but I thought it was worthy of its own blog post. It’s that good!

Tools Used to Make Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing

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  • Blender – I am using my BlendTec (<- currently on Cyber Week sale🎉,) but any blender will work, even a stick blender
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Knife and cutting board
  • Mason jar, dressing bottle or other lidded storage container

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Cilantro Lime Ranch (Made from Scratch)

Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of.

Course Sauces
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword cilantro lime ranch dressing, cilantro lime ranch recipe
Prep Time 8 minutes
Total Time 8 minutes
Servings 6 to 8
Calories 92 kcal
Author Marjorie @APinchOfHealthy

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup mayonaise (I recommend one of the following brands: Duke's, Hellmann's or Trader Joe's)
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1/4 cup milk (or buttermilk - my photos were shot with plain 2% milk, FYI)
  • 1/4 teaspoon parsley
  • 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon chives
  • 1 large garlic clove, diced
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 Tablespoons salsa verde (Trader Joe's is my favorite!)
  • juice of 1/2 lime (juice from 1/2 lime = about 1 Tablespoon)
  • 1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves

Instructions

  1. Add all ingredients to a blender, and blend until smooth (about 20 seconds).

  2. Serving suggestions: serve with tortilla chips, over salads, with veggie slices, on tacos. The possibilities are endless!

  3. Refrigerate leftovers for up to a week.

Nutrition Facts
Cilantro Lime Ranch (Made from Scratch)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 92 Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Fat 9g14%
Saturated Fat 2g13%
Cholesterol 9mg3%
Sodium 207mg9%
Potassium 37mg1%
Carbohydrates 1g0%
Sugar 1g1%
Vitamin A 155IU3%
Vitamin C 0.6mg1%
Calcium 22mg2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Comments

  1. Donnita L Anglin says

    May 5, 2020 at 5:49 pm

    5 stars
    Made this today… will most definitely make again. I used real onion as I didn’t have powdered. Amazing.. it will go great with our street tacos tonight.

    Reply
    • Marjorie @APinchOfHealthy says

      May 6, 2020 at 6:48 am

      Yaaaay, Donnita! Happy to hear it.💖

      Reply
  2. Brigitte Luna says

    December 26, 2018 at 12:09 pm

    5 stars
    I didnt have salsa verde, and it still came out great! I MADE A SECOND BATCH AND ADDED A HALF OF AN AVOCADO- GREAT!
    I ALSO HAD TO SUB IN LEMONS FOR LIME
    THANK YOU

    Reply
    • Marjorie @APinchOfHealthy says

      December 26, 2018 at 2:20 pm

      Yay! I am so glad you are enjoying it Brigitte!

      Reply
  3. JennG says

    December 28, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    I wonder how it would turn out if I used Herdez’s Guacamole Salsa? It is a lot spicier but the flavor is so good. No Trader Joes unless I want to drive to Dallas….I do not! Too cold! Hahaha.

    Reply
    • Marjorie@APinchOfHealthy says

      December 29, 2017 at 7:32 am

      It would probably still be really good using that. Sounds delicious!

      Reply

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