This creamy Cilantro Ranch Dressing for Everything is delicious as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, sandwich ingredient and much more! Put it on everything, because it'll taste amazing every time.
Put-It-On-Everything Cilantro Ranch Dressing
Today I'm sharing one of our all-time favorite dressing/sauces and I can't wait for you to taste it. You can really put it on everything, so I dubbed it the Put-it-on-All the Things Cilantro Ranch Dressing and Sauce. Clever, huh? I'll make a double batch of this stuff and we go through it fast. Here are some of the things that we'll put it on. I'll replace the enchilada sauce in a recipe with it and bake it right on top of the enchiladas or we'll make smothered burritos in a similar way. It's excellent as a salad dressing and I love it in place of the BBQ ranch dressing on this chicken salad. It's also super on rice and burritos bowls, or even as a spread on paninis and burgers. Really, you may find yourself wanting to just drink it with a straw; it's great.
The best part? It's super easy. Throw everything in a blender and let it rip. You're done. I love that it uses salsa verde too. I used to have a recipe that called for whole tomatillos but I have a really hard time finding them now, so canned green salsa is a great solution.
How long does homemade dressing last?
If you keep this sauce in an airtight container, like a mason jar, the sauce can be kept in the fridge for about a week.
Cilantro Ranch Dressing for Everything
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: Makes about 2 cups 1x
Description
This creamy Cilantro Ranch Dressing for Everything is delicious as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, sandwich ingredient and much more! Put it on everything, because it'll taste amazing every time.
Ingredients
- 1 cup bottled salsa verde
- 1 (0.4 oz) packet buttermilk ranch dressing mix (or the homemade equivalent)
- ⅓ cup chopped fresh cilantro
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- ⅓ cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic, about a clove
- ½ teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- ¼ teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 tablespoons sugar or honey
- Few shakes of your favorite hot sauce (optional)
Instructions
- Add all the ingredients to the jar of your blender and blend until smooth. Store in a covered air-tight container. Enjoy on everything.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Category: Dip
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: American
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Serve this sauce with
- Steak Carnitas Meat in the Crock-Pot
- Steak Tostadas
- Simple Shrimp Fajitas
- The Ultimate Fajita Burger in honor of #burgerweek
- Taco Topped Cornbread Waffles
- Grilled Honey Lime Chicken Breast
- The Best Baked Chicken Legs
- Perfect Oven French Fries
- Barbecue Ranch Grilled Chicken Salad
- Veggie and Lentil Burgers
- The BEST Crispy Homemade Sweet Potato Fries
- Crunchy Baked Chicken Tacos
This post was originally published in 2015 and has been updated in August 2019.
Put-It-On-Everything Cilantro Ranch Dressing is creamy, flavorful ranch to add something extra to almost any food you want to make.
Miss B
It was too sweet. I would omit the sugar/honey all together.
lacier77
I'm trying this on my next tex mex meal! Thank you for the recipe!
Bobi
I make one like that but use plain greek yogurt and it's tart. I LOVE cilantro.
katie w
so I promised my husband earlier this year that we would NOT do a garden, what with working like crazy to finish the house and wanting to just have fun all summer long. Well...then a friend gave me six garden beds (one full of strawberries already!) and I had to break my promise. I spent a week poring over gardening books and getting things planted. All that to say--I planted tomatillos for the first time ever! I can't wait to make all sorts of deliciousness with them. I'm super excited to try this dressing, it looks awesome!