Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing
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This cilantro-lime ranch dressing is a Tex-Mex take on your favorite creamy salad dressing. We make ours with yogurt and a touch of mayo. It has all the ranch flavors you love, plus some tangy lime juice and a handful of cilantro.
Ranch dressing is hard not to love — it’s creamy, classic, and about as cozy as a salad dressing gets. I make this version with yogurt, which gives it a bright tang that I actually prefer over a mayo-heavy ranch. It’s rich, familiar, and the kind of dressing I’m always happy to drizzle generously.
Lime and cilantro turn this into a Tex-Mex–style ranch that works just as well as a sauce for tacos as it does tossed with a salad. It comes together in minutes, and once you taste it, you’ll find plenty of excuses to put it on just about everything.
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How to serve cilantro lime ranch
We love serving this with some crunchy lettuce greens (think romaine hearts, iceberg, or bibb lettuce) with some croutons, grated carrots, and sometimes some sliced radishes if we’re getting fancy. But this ranch is super versatile. Here are a few of our other recipes that it does great with:
Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup greek yogurt or sour cream
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise (can be light)
- ½ cup cilantro
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 teaspoon EACH: onion powder and garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Add the ingredients to your food processor or blender and blend on high until mostly smooth.1 cup greek yogurt or sour cream, 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, ½ cup cilantro, 2 tablespoons lime juice, 1 teaspoon EACH: onion powder and garlic powder, ½ teaspoon salt
- Store for up to a week in a sealed container in your fridge.
Nutrition
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So good!! I love making my own dressings. I serve this over blackened chicken with fresh pico.
Aw, that sounds absolutely delicious! Homemade dressings make everything taste extra special, and serving it over blackened chicken with fresh pico is such a perfect combo. Thanks for sharing your yummy idea! 💛
Delicious! I used 50/50 Daisy breaks full fat sour cream and unsweetened coconut yogurt, one part onion powder to half as much garlic powder, equal quantity dried chives (they were in the house) to the salt. I’m sorry I made half the recipe 😉
Great idea with the coconut yogurt!
Delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Can I use more mayo instead of sour cream or yogurt or is there another alternative ?
That should work well!
Is that 1/2 cup dried or fresh cilantro?
Fresh!
So yummy with no guilt!!
Yes!!