Avocado Lime Ranch Dressing AND Spicy Salsa Ranch Dressing

Have you ever found a recipe that, from the moment you taste it, you just know it will be your new best friend? Oh my word, that is precisely how I feel about today’s recipes. The combination of these two dressings takes this salad over the top! However, each dressing alone has so much potential. Independently, they could be great dips for chicken fingers, on tacos, or so much more.

Using a popular chicken sandwich restaurant as inspiration, we made our salad with lettuce, black beans, tomatoes, shredded cheese, red onion, sliced black olives, grilled chicken, and grilled steak and topped with fried tortilla strips. I used the Cilantro Lime marinade I recently posted to marinate the chicken and steak for two hours each.

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Avocado Lime Ranch Dressing

Course Salad

Author Amye Melton

Ingredients

• 2 ripe Haas avocados pulp scooped out
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 3/4 teaspoon dried dill
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon water to thin a bit

Instructions

• You may use a food processor or blender. Start by placing the avocado pulp, mayonnaise, vinegar, buttermilk, lime juice, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, dill, sugar, salt and pepper in container of the blending device you will be using.
• Blend until smooth, scrapping down the sides occasionally with a spatula.
• With lid on and blender running, slowly drizzle in the olive oil.
• Then is the dressing needs to be thinned a bit, using the same process, drizzle in water 1 tablespoon at a time until you have reached the desired consistency.
• Taste and adjust salt and pepper or any other seasonings, if desired.

Notes

Store in a jar in the refrigerator for an hour or two before serving.

Will keep up to 5 days in the refrigerator.  

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Spicy Salsa Ranch Dressing

Course Salad

Author Amye Melton

Ingredients

• 1 (1-ounce) packet Hidden Valley Spicy Ranch Salad Dressing Mix
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup jarred salsa

Instructions

• Combine dressing mix, mayonnaise, buttermilk, and salsa in a bowl. Whisk to combine. Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving. Keep refrigerated.