Cilantro lime ranch dressing is great on salads, veggies, tacos, tortilla chips, or just about any other Mexican dish you can think of.
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!🎉💃🏼
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! ✅🙌🏻
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
Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing Recipe
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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.
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
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Add all ingredients to a blender, and blend until smooth (about 20 seconds).
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Serving suggestions: serve with tortilla chips, over salads, with veggie slices, on tacos. The possibilities are endless!
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Refrigerate leftovers for up to a week.
Donnita L Anglin says
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.
Marjorie @APinchOfHealthy says
Yaaaay, Donnita! Happy to hear it.💖
Brigitte Luna says
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
Marjorie @APinchOfHealthy says
Yay! I am so glad you are enjoying it Brigitte!
JennG says
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.
Marjorie@APinchOfHealthy says
It would probably still be really good using that. Sounds delicious!