Once you start making your own homemade dressings, you’ll never look back! This dill pickle ranch dressing whisks up fast and is full of fresh flavor.
Holly’s Recipe Highlights For Dill Pickle Ranch
- Difficulty: So easy to make! Whisk together sour cream, mayo, and spices in one bowl—ready in minutes.
- Technique: Grating the pickles with a box grater helps keep them evenly mixed. If you don’t have a grater, shake the dressing before serving as chopped pickles can sink to the bottom.
- Swaps: Swap sour cream for Greek yogurt for extra protein or use dried herbs instead of fresh to keep it budget-friendly.
- Time-Saving Tip: Make it ahead of time—it gets even better after sitting in the fridge!
- Serving suggestions: Drizzle over salads, use as a dip, or spread on sandwiches for a tangy kick.
Ingredient Tips For Dill Pickle Ranch
- Base: I use sour cream and mayonnaise as the base of this recipe. Replace sour cream with Greek yogurt if desired.
- Pickles: Use your favorite brand of dill pickles (I use these ones) or homemade pickles. Add some of the spices and garlicky bits from the pickle juice in Step 3.
- Seasonings: Fresh dill weed is great if you can but if not, use dried herbs.
Variations
- Whisk in buttermilk in place of dill pickle juice.
- Add finely diced jalapenos for little heat.
Serving and Storage
- This dressing is great over romaine, kale, or other greens.
- Use it to dip fries, drizzle over potatoes or wings.
- Keep leftover dill pickle ranch dressing in a mason jar or airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
More Delicious Dressings
Making homemade salad dressing is a cinch and the flavor is so much better than bottled. Most dresssing are ready in less than 5 minutes and you’ll never look back.
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Dill Pickle Ranch Dressing
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup sour cream or Greek yogurt
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons dried parsley or 1 tablespoon freshly chopped
- 1½ teaspoons dried dill or 2 teaspoons freshly chopped
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅛ teaspoon black pepper or to taste
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper optional
- 2 medium dill pickles grated, optional
- 3 to 4 tablespoons dill pickle juice
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk sour cream, mayonnaise, parsley, dill, onion powder, garlic powder, pepper, and cayenne if using.
- If using, grate the dill pickle with the larger side of a box grater and add to the dressing.
- Stir in the dill pickle juice, 1 tablespoon at a time, to reach desired consistency.
- Transfer to a mason jar and refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving. Shake well before serving.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Dip, Dressing
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Heavenly! We made it and couldn’t stop tasting it to see if we liked it!! I love homemade ranch, but I think I just found a NEW favorite!!
Can’t wait to try this, family loves different ranch dressing with nugs! Would dill pickle relish (not sweet) work in place of the grated?
I haven’t tried it but it could work! Let us know how it goes!
Perfect tarter sauce!!!!!!
Glad you loved it Kathy!
looks delicious, will try.
I did this recipe before today and I found it to be delicious.
So glad you loved it!