This cottage cheese salad dressing combines fresh cheese, herbs and pantry staples. It's a creamy salad dressing without mayo, has a delicious herb flavor and takes just 5 minutes to blend up!
Now you may have noticed that I love a cottage cheese recipe and use it to make fun dips such as my cottage cheese tzatziki and cottage dill dip. As well as being delicious, this creamy fresh cheese has the benefit of being a higher protein addition to meals or snacks.
It can also be used as a swap for mayo to make a salad dressing. We make this cottage cheese dressing with ranch-style flavors of fresh herbs and garlic in a few minutes to drizzle over your salads. It's a perfect addition to my lamb's lettuce salad!
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⭐ Why This Recipe is So Good
Creamy salad dressing without mayo. We use cottage cheese for that creamy taste and texture, and leave out the mayonnaise.
High protein. Using cottage cheese gives a nice little boost of protein to your salads!
Quick and easy. Simply combine ingredients and blend!
🌿 Ingredients
All the ingredients and their quantities are set out in the recipe card below.
Some notes on a few of them:
- Cottage cheese - I suggest to use full fat cottage cheese as it has a creamier taste and texture, and more flavor.
- Herbs - we want to use fresh herbs to give a delicious green goddess flavor, such as parsley, dill, mint, basil or cilantro.
- Apple cider vinegar - this is optional, as cottage cheese has a tang anyway, but I like to add a little for an extra zing.
🔪 How to Make Cottage Cheese Dressing
It's so quick to blend up this cottage cheese dressing for salads, and all you need is a high powered blender and a handful of ingredients.
All the instructions are in the recipe card below, but these step by step photos should help guide you.
Step 1: Combine ingredients
Add the cottage cheese, water, herbs, apple cider vinegar, garlic and black pepper to your blender cup (image 1).
Step 2: Blend your dressing!
Blend the dressing until smooth, scraping down the sides of the blender if needed. Adjust with a touch more water to thin, if required (image 2).
💭 Recipe Tips and Notes
- Use full fat cottage cheese. It isn't a necessity, but will give you a creamier salad dressing with more flavor.
- Make the most of fresh herbs. For cottage cheese ranch dressing flavors, I suggest to use parsley and dill, and cilantro if you love the taste.
- Adjust the texture. We all like our salad dressings a little different, so thin with more water and thicken with more cottage cheese to preference.
- Scrape down the blender. You may need to stop the blender and give the sides a scrape down to fully incorporate and blend the ingredients.
📋 Frequently Asked Questions
Cottage cheese can be used as salad dressing when thinned with water and other liquids, and blended with herbs and other flavorings.
Regular full fat cottage cheese has more flavor and is creamier than low fat cottage cheese, making it a better option for dressings. However, low fat can be used.
You want to use soft fresh herbs such as parsley, cilantro, dill, basil or thyme.
I don't recommend freezing this recipe as the taste and texture of the cottage cheese will change during the freezing process.
🥣 More Cottage Cheese Recipes
Find lots of fun ways to make the most of cottage cheese here, including my cottage cheese stuffed chicken and cottage cheese smoothie, as well as these tasty recipes:
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📖 Recipe
Cottage Cheese Salad Dressing
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 3 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar optional
- ½ cup fresh herbs such as parsley, dill, mint or cilantro, tightly packed
- 1 garlic clove
- ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper optional
Instructions
- Add the cottage cheese, water, apple cider vinegar, fresh herbs, garlic and black pepper (if using) to a blender cup.
- Blend to a thick creamy salad dressing, adding a touch more water to thin, to preference.
Notes
- Pack in the herbs! For ranch-style dressing flavors, I suggest to use parsley, dill and cilantro, but mint is also delicious.
- Scrape the blender down. You may need to stop and scrape the sides of the blender down a few times.
- Adjust texture. If you like a thinner dressing, simply add a little more water.
- Nutritional information is auto-generated and should be understood to be an estimate.
- cottage cheese is on the 'well tolerated' part of the SIGHI elimination diet for histamine intolerance, but does not appear on the version for mast cell disorders. Only use if known to tolerate well.
- apple cider vinegar, which scores 1. This is optional.
- Garlic, which scores 1.
- Black pepper, which scores 2.
- Check the herbs you use are suitable for your personal needs on the SIGHI list.
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