How to Make Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix
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I love making my own mixes to know what’s in my food. This homemade ranch seasoning mix is great for dry rub, marinade, making ranch dressing, and ranch dip. Making your own seasonings and flavorings is easier than you think and fun!
Ranch Seasoning Mix
This ranch seasoning mix is a pantry staple at my house and the first of our homemade seasonings that I have to make more of. I’m always buying the dry buttermilk powder and mixing up my dried herbs in a mason jar to have another few months of delicious seasoning.
My homemade ranch mix makes the BEST salad dressing that you will ever taste. And the dry ranch mix is full of flavor for so many dishes! You’re gonna be making it regularly too after you try this!
MSG and other additives in store-bought mixes make people sick. I make many of my own mixes to keep as many chemicals as possible out of my children and my family.
Many store-bought spices are irradiated, have concentrated amounts of pesticides, and their ingredients are just plain bad for you. I had to research what was in my food because it kept making me sick and I found out the things that make me sick can also cause cancer and other serious illnesses so none of us should be eating them.
Your spice cabinet could be full of fillers and ingredients that aren’t the best for you or your family. Read more about it here in what’s lurking in your spice cabinet.
You can even grow your own spices to make mixes.
Ranch seasoning
You can know that it’s keto ranch seasoning, vegan ranch seasoning, gluten-free ranch seasoning or whatever you’re wanting your eating habits to be. It’s a lot easier to stay on an eating plan when you make your seasoning mixes yourself. Gluten is in nearly every seasoning mix you can buy, but other things are as well.
This is is already keto, but you could make it vegan by omitting the buttermilk seasoning. It’s also gluten-free as well.
Recipes with ranch seasoning
The most common thing I use this mix for is my world-famous Taco Soup. It is definitely a favorite among the kids around here. My family loves it as well. I also make my own taco seasoning mix, and frozen rotel for that soup.
It’s great to use in taco soup kits and taco soup in a jar as well.
One of our favorites is chicken rotel spaghetti. We call it crack chicken. Without Velveeta so we know the ingredients are healthy too!
This simple and easy Creamy Ranch Tuna Pasta Salad Recipe is a quick dinner that’s a winner too.
My family and I have developed a great barbecue dry rub and barbecue sauce recipe as well. And Homemade Italian seasoning. We also make chili mix as well. Mixes are simple to make and it’s fun to be creative. Here’s a great Homemade Ranch Dry Rub Seasoning Recipe too.
How to Make Ranch Dressing with the Mix
Back to the ranch. This seasoning is wonderful to season meat, use as a flavoring in soups and casseroles, and of course, making the best ranch dressing or a two-second ranch dip that’s delish. Or for another spicy variation, check out this Mexican ranch dressing with a kick! Or this Homemade Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing. It’s so good too!
To make ranch dip, add 3 Tablespoons of the mixture to 2/3 cup of plain Greek yogurt or sour cream.
To make a chipotle ranch drizzle, just toss two chipotle peppers in adobo into the blender with a cup of sour cream. Add 2 Tablespoons of the ranch seasoning mix. Squeeze in the juice of a lime. Then you can thin it with a drizzle of buttermilk or regular milk until it’s thin enough to blend. You’re going to want to make this over and over again!
I promise these will be the best ranch dressing or dip you have ever tasted! I have been told this over and over again. This is one of my most popular and requested recipes.
This crack spaghetti squash is our favorite dinner to season with it.
We even use the ranch seasoning to season our own homemade roasted pumpkin seeds!
I like to get my spices as organically as I can. I also grow a lot of the ingredients in my garden. Herbs are hardy plants and easy to grow, so I dry a lot of herbs in the summer and make my own Italian seasoning mix as well as use parsley and dill from my garden to make this ranch seasoning mix.
You can even make homemade onion and garlic powder, but I haven’t tried it yet. It’s one of my goals for the future though.
I buy my spices in bulk from bulkfoods.com. I love that they are just spices with no fillers or extra ingredients. You have to be especially careful if you need to avoid gluten because most fillers contain gluten. And what manufacturer doesn’t want to get more product by bulking it up with fillers, I guess?
All you have to do to flavor your popcorn with it, is pop 4 cups of popcorn, sprinkle 2 tablespoons of seasoning over top, and shake it up. You can do it with butter or without.
You can flavor oyster crackers the same way. Melt some butter, I would use 2 tablespoons for 4 cups of crackers, pour it over top, and shake to mix. Then sprinkle on the 2 tablespoons of ranch and shake to mix again. Yum!
For all the best homemade dressing, dip, and sauce recipes check this out. And for more spice mix ideas, check these out:
- Fajita Seasoning Mix
- How to Make Homemade Taco Seasoning Mix
- Homemade Italian Seasoning
- Homemade Chili Seasoning Mix
- Garlic Bread Seasoning Mix
- Simple Steak Seasoning
Homemade ranch seasoning
Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix
Ingredients
- 2/3 C. dry buttermilk I order mine from bulkfoods.com
- 1/4 C. dried parsley
- 1 T. dried dill weed
- 1 T. garlic powder
- 1 T. onion powder
- 1 T. dried onion flakes
- 1 tsp. black pepper
- 2 tsp. celery seed
- 2 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Mix ingredients together in a bowl and store in an airtight container.
Why didn’t you finish the recipe? You didn’t give any proportions to actually make it. Do I add water or what to mix it up? How much dry mix to liquid. This sounds really good and I’d like to make it, but I need to know how to mix it to use it please
Hi Jeannine, The recipe says to mix it up and store it dry to use in recipes. The whole article is full of ways it can be used to make different dishes including dip or dressing, you have to click on the highlighted link to get to the individual recipes as wordpress only allows one recipe per post, so I linked the other recipes outside of the one for the mix itself throughout the article so you can get the most useful ways I could provide you in using it. This post is about how to make the dry seasoning mix. I hope that makes sense, and thank you so much for checking it out. I hope you can find the uses you were wanting above the recipe for the dry mix.
Can I substitute celery salt for celery seed
You can, just add it for the celery seed and omit the salt in the recipe so it won’t be too salty. Thanks for checking it out!
Hi There, I’m an Aussie and often see recipes for ranch dressing but I have never attempted to make it because I have lactose intolerant kidlets. Do you have any suggestions or experience with swapping out the buttermilk powder? Am wondering about coconut milk powder? TIA😊
Hi! Thanks for checking out the recipe. I would definitely try the coconut milk powder. I think it sounds great.