December 7, 2012

DIY: An alternative to Ranch dressing

I've been thinking the past several days that I need to find an easy make-at-home recipe for dipping sauce. Erin and Noah love cut-up carrots, but they will only eat them with Ranch dressing. And that's also the case with cut-up pieces of chicken, cut-up bean burger patties...basically anything that can be dipped.

So to have something on hand that's less expensive (and probably healthier...I counted 19 ingredients in our Ranch), I did a quick Google search for a creamy dipping sauce. Here's one I found, which I modified slightly:


Creamy Dipping Sauce:


1/2 cup Mayo
2 tsp. Dijon Mustard
1 tbsp. Honey
1 tsp. White Vinegar

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I tasted it with a carrot, and it's delicious. I could also see this being yummy on a salad. I'm not sure if it's drastically healthier than Ranch - since it still has fat and sugar in it - but at least I've cut back on the number of ingredients (my mayo has 7 and my dijon mustard has 6) and I made it fresh myself!
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4 comments:

  1. SeanDecember 7, 2012 at 1:27 PM

    Cool. You left "fingers" off the list of things they like to dip in ranch.

    Also, I'm deciding right now that I don't eat enough Dijon mustard.

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  2. CherylDecember 7, 2012 at 2:31 PM

    After I published the post, I thought about going back in and adding a comment about them dipping their fingers too :)

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  3. WaldieDecember 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM

    I have to make ranch from scratch because we can't get it here (or, if we did, it'd be like $10/bottle, no lie). So I make it with 1/2 mayo and 1/2 yogurt and then add a bunch of spices like garlic powder, a lot of pepper, vinegar. I like the idea of the mustard though. I'll give that a try. Love the blog! Wish we could all cook together since we basically eat similarly.

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  4. CherylDecember 8, 2012 at 3:28 PM

    Hey Katie! Miss you guys...

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