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Once you try this homemade blue cheese dressing, there’s no going back to store-bought! It’s the perfect cool and creamy drizzle for wings, salads, burgers, and more.
How Is This So Creamy, Customizable & Fast?!
- Bold Flavor, Your Way: Control the chunkiness and tang to make it exactly how you like it.
- Better Than Store-Bought: Creamy, rich, and made without any weird stuff. It’s so good, it tastes like the kind you get at a really good restaurant.
- Ridiculously Quick: Whip it up in 5 minutes flat, no fuss, no fancy tools.
Blue Cheese Dressing Ingredients
- Blue Cheese Tip: Use any blue cheese you love, block or crumbles, both work! Mash it smooth for even flavor, or keep it chunky if you like.
- Too strong? Swap blue cheese for Gorgonzola. It’s milder, creamier, and still gives you that bold flavor, just a little more mellow.
- Buttermilk: Add more or less buttermilk depending on how thin or thick you like your dressing. The buttermilk will thin out slightly as it sits over time.
- Add Lemon: Add a splash of fresh lemon juice for a bright pop of flavor.
How to Make Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
This creamy blue cheese dressing recipe is as easy as it gets! Just a few simple steps, and it’s ready in 5 minutes. I love making it with my classic wedge salad! It’s seriously better than the best Blue cheese dressing at a steakhouse!
- Mash: In a small bowl, add blue cheese crumbles and buttermilk, then mash the crumbles with a fork.
- Combine: Add in sour cream, mayonnaise, parsley, garlic powder, and salt and pepper to taste, then whisk to combine.
Alyssa’s Pro Tip
Let it sit: For best results, let your blue cheese dressing chill for at least 8 hours or overnight. As a result, the flavors have time to mix and marry, and it makes a big difference in how good it tastes!
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Blue Cheese Dressing
Ingredients
- 4 ounces blue cheese crumbles
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a small bowl, add 4 ounces blue cheese crumbles and ⅓ cup buttermilk. Mash the crumbles with a fork.
- Add in ⅓ cup sour cream, ½ cup mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, ¼ teaspoon garlic powder, and salt and pepper to taste, and whisk. Add in more buttermilk if you want a thinner consistency.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I love this. Am I doing something wrong? When I make it and use right away it’s thick. When I refrigerate over night it gets watery
I be made this twice. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. It’s thick when I make it and when it sits overnight in the fridge it gets watery. Both times!!
Im so sorry that is happening! Give it a good stir when you take it out of the fridge and next time you make it, try using less buttermilk!
Awesome recipe. Thank you.
Been looking for years for a recipe that tasted like my dad’s homemade blue cheese and I finally found it thank you this is delicious.
It really does taste just like my dad’s
I worked in a restaurant many, many years ago. We made our own dressings. Well, I’ve gone many years buying Kraft or Wishbone or marzettis (sp) I wanted to stop eating garbage ingredients.
This is this absolute best recipe for Bleu Cheese dressing, dip I’ve ever tasted!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks for trying it!
This was delicious! And super easy to make.
Thanks!
Nice recipe. I’ve made Blue Cheese Dressing many times. I prefer my Blue Cheese to be from an actual wedge, which I’ll crumble myself, since the pre-crumbled cheese contains an additive which prevents the crumbles from sticking together. Who needs that? Anyways, what’s so hard about crumbling cheese? Nice recipe, thank you. BTW, Wedge Salad is our favorite ‘Shmancy’ Salad, especially for company, but we also enjoy it every once in just because we love it.
thank you, I’d never thought of making my own before and love the idea of choosing different types of blue cheeses, mixing and matching!