Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix - Easy, Low Additives!

This homemade ranch seasoning mix is an easy dry blend of buttermilk powder, vinegar salt, dill, parsley, chives, garlic and onion powder. Making it yourself means you know exactly what is going into the mix and can avoid many of the additives and preservatives found in some commercial ranch seasoning packets. Use it in ranch dressing, dips or a huge range of recipes.

About This Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix

Heads up Ranch Lovers! Did you know that it's simple to make ranch seasoning mix at home?

Most of us know ranch dressing, the tangy buttermilk dressing but in America they also have ranch dressing seasoning mix which is a dry mix that you cam do two things with. First you can use it as a seasoning powder on lots of food to pep up the flavour or second you can mix it up with milk and mayonnaise to create liquid ranch dressing.

You can use a pack of ranch seasoning on roast potatoes, soups, a dry rub for chicken or fish, burger patties, meatloaf, pork chops, potato salad, potato scallops or even a seasoning for popcorn. I add it to plain avocado for avocado toast and to taco soup and it makes it pop! And if you blend it with butter, gravy mix and pepperoncini peppers it makes a classic Mississippi pot roast.

Laura first got me onto ranch dressing mix. When Mr NQN and I went to Hawaii a couple of years ago she asked if I could buy her some. They were around $5USD each and I used up one packet and had half a packet left. It was only when I made my taco soup recipe that I realised that I needed more but I wanted to try my hand at making a homemade one.

Video How To Make Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix

Ingredients For Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix

Buttermilk powder - Buy this from health food stores. This is the base of your ranch powder as it is tangier than milk powder.

Vinegar salt - This is one of my favourite seasonings. I like the vinegar salt by South African brand Robertsons which you can buy online. This is integral to getting the zingy flavour of the Hidden Valley ranch dressing powder mix in place of the lactic acid.

Dried herbs - Dried dill, parsley flakes and chives. Find these in the herb and spice aisle.

Onion powder - Fine onion powder, not flakes. Tip: store in the freezer to prevent clumping!

Garlic powder - Fine granulated garlic powder. Store in the freezer with the onion powder to prevent clumping.

Salt - Fine salt.

Black pepper - Freshly ground black pepper.

Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix Recipe

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Recipe Overview

Preparation time: 2 minutes

Cooking time: 0 minutes

Serves: Makes 90g/3ozs

Ingredients Needed

• 60g/2oz buttermilk powder
• 8 teaspoons/40g/1.4oz vinegar salt
• 1 tablespoon dried dill
• 1 tablespoon dried parsley
• 1 tablespoon dried chives
• 4 teaspoons onion powder
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1 MIX - Add the buttermilk powder (60g/2oz buttermilk powder), vinegar salt (8 teaspoons/40g/1.4oz vinegar salt), dried dill (1 tablespoon dried dill), dried parsley (1 tablespoon dried parsley), dried chives (1 tablespoon dried chives), onion powder (4 teaspoons onion powder), garlic powder (2 teaspoons garlic powder), salt (1 1/2 teaspoons salt) and black pepper (1/2 teaspoon black pepper) to a jar and screw the lid on tightly. Shake well. Store in the fridge.

Personal Note

Couples or friends often have their own language and Mr NQN and I are no different. We thought we were the only ones that called the microwave the "meecrowavee" until Nigella Lawson said it. And I thought I was the only one that referred to the morning as the "Butt Crack of Dawn" until I heard it on tv.

We also have another little inside joke. It comes from a meme about a politician Nancy Mace who shared a picture of her with her barbecue dinner. The comment by someone on X read ""That's a lot of beans, you nasty a$$ b#$%h". And somehow it became a comment Mr NQN and I occasionally throw into conversation. Monica and I occasionally say it to each other too whenever there's a lot of anything.

And when Mr NQN saw all of the jars of ranch seasoning mix that I was experimenting with he said, "This is a lot of ranch you nasty a$$ b#$%1!".

But really Mr NQN is worried that he'll get caught out calling me that which is going to look a lot worse than me saying that!

So tell me Dear Reader, who do you have your own little language with? And have you ever heard of or tried ranch seasoning mix?

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