Loaded Creamy Ranch Dip (Poolside Dip) - The Recipe Critic (2024)

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Try celery sticks, carrot sticks, broccoli, and peppers. For non-vegetable items, try pita chips, Doritos, and breadsticks. Everything goes good with ranch dressing. Veggies are the top of the list.

Sour cream and mayonnaise: The base for this creamy ranch recipe is a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise. Seasonings: This flavorful ranch dressing is seasoned with dried chives, dried parsley, dried dill weed, dried garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and ground black pepper.

If you don't have time or inclination to make your dressing from scratch, but you want that elevated restaurant-style ranch, think about zhuzhing up the bottled version with things like finely chopped shallot or scallion, a clove of minced fresh garlic, a splash of buttermilk or dollop of sour cream if you have them ...

Ranch dressing is usually based with mayonnaise, with sufficient water added that it will pour to cover the salad. Ranch dip is usually based with sour cream, or sometimes yogurt, and is not thinned so that it will stick to chips or vegetable slices.

How do you thicken store-bought ranch dressing? Add more mayonnaise. Ranch dressing = mayonnaise + buttermilk + garlic + herbs (usually dill). Adding more mayo will thicken it without introducing flavors that aren't already there.

Yogurt is your best substitute for sour cream. Whether you're baking or making a dip or sauce, yogurt is a 1:1 sub. That means if your recipe calls for 1 cup of sour cream, you can replace it with 1 cup of yogurt. Full-fat Greek or natural yogurts work best, but low-fat or even nonfat can be used, too.

Anything such as carrots, celery stalks, radishes, cauliflower florets, cucumber, snap peas, broccoli florets, or different kinds of peppers work great - simply peel or cut them and store in the refrigerator in an airtight container.

Anyway, right now I'm only eating cucumber and bell peppers — any other suggestions for raw veggies that go great with various dips? Editor: I'm especially fond of eating snap peas with hummus and others dips. You can also try grape or cherry tomatoes, celery, and radishes.

One of my favorite ranch boosts is adding something spicy. Squirt in some Sriracha or Mexican-style hot sauce, or add a spoonful of Moroccan harissa paste, wing or Buffalo sauce, or some diced chipotle peppers in adobo sauce.