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Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing. Easy to make as a low fat dressing too, using half fat mayo. Plus ideas for Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad and Bacon Ranch Egg Salad.

Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

Originally published August 2017.

A funny thing happened on the way to this Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing recipe.

It actually made a very hidden cameo appearance on my recently popular recipe post for Quick Montreal Steak Spice Refrigerator Pickles.

Montreal Steak Spice Refrigerator Pickles image with text

Montreal Steak Spice Refrigerator Pickles

In a display photo for the pickles, as seen below, I featured mine and Spouses lunch for the day; simple egg salad sandwiches. While the pickles got an immediate positive response, I also got several Facebook comments and messages asking how I made the egg salad sandwiches!

Spouse and I have a shared love of simple egg salad sandwiches but I am a little finicky about them. I do not like warm egg salad and actually prefer to make them a day ahead on very fresh white bread.

Then, I store them in an airtight plastic container in the fridge for lunch the next day.

Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

Blame it on the 70’s

I think this strange egg salad sandwich preference stems from my mother, her sisters and friends. Particularly when they would attend baby or wedding showers back in the 70’s and 80’s when us six siblings were growing up.

Inevitably each of the ladies would take along something to contribute to the tea, sandwiches and cookies that would be served at the celebration. Inevitably too, there would be far too much food.

At the end of the evening, each of the ladies would then refill the same Tupperware containers that they had brought with them, choosing a selection of sandwiches and cookies from the other women at the shower.

Next morning, I would always go to the fridge to see what that long rectangular Tupperware treasure chest held. If there were egg salad sandwiches, I would always try to snag those before my brothers and sisters.

Spouse had a very similar experience as a child when her mother would attend one of these ladies nights out, so it’s a shared childhood experience for us. We might even occasionally squabble over the last couple of sandwich triangles left in the plastic container  in the fridge.

It’s a little odd that this happy childhood memory should stay with both of us for so long but we are both quite content to have it remain.

Uses for this Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

Back to the recipe at hand and how I like to use it. Yes, we mostly do low fat vinaigrette type dressings around here these days but I have always been a big fan of creamy salad dressings and still indulge on one or two on occasion.

I simply couldn’t do without blue cheese dressing with Buffalo Wings for example?…what would be the point?

Ranch dressing and in particular Bacon Ranch Dressing is a real favourite of mine and I recently thought I could make a decent version after making a great Creamy Roasted Garlic Caesar Dressing.

I’ve used the same idea for this recipe; using a base of roasted garlic and plain mayo, then adding flavour elements to that.

Bacon Ranch Deviled Eggs

Bacon Ranch Deviled Eggs

The result was delicious and if you use a good quality “half the fat” brand mayonnaise, it’s easy to cut the calories by half at least. This option makes it a great choice as a dip for fried or baked chicken wings, in pasta salad or as those sandwiches can attest, great egg salad too. I mean bacon and egg is a natural combination; add garlic and herbs to that and you are really on to a winner.

Please see the notes in the salad dressing recipe for tips on how to use the dressing in pasta salad and egg salad or deviled eggs.

You may also like this great recipe for Low Fat Chipotle Ranch Dip.

Low Fat Chipotle Ranch Dip photo with title text for Pinterest

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Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing
Yield: 24 servings ( 1 tbsp each) 1 1/2 cups dressing in total.

Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour

Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing - easy to make as a low fat dressing too, plus ideas for bacon Ranch Pasta Salad and Bacon Ranch Egg Salad.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup good quality half fat (or non-fat) mayonnaise, you may use regular mayo if you like
  • 1 small head of roasted garlic, mashed (see note)
  • juice of half a small lemon
  • 1 tbsp dijon mustard
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp basil, very finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp fresh dill, finely chopped
  • 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 4 slices thick cut bacon, cooked crisp, then very finely chopped

Instructions

  1. Mix all of the ingredients of the salad dressing together well. You can do this just with a whisk or in a blender or food processor
  2. Chill well before serving.

Notes

Recipe Notes 1. Total preparation time does not include the time to roast the garlic. 2. To roast a head of garlic, cut a little off the top of the head (1/4 inch or so) to reveal the cloves inside. Place the garlic head on a square of aluminum foil, sprinkle on a little salt and pepper to season and then drizzle with a teaspoon of olive oil. Bring all sides of the aluminum foil together and twist to seal the garlic head inside. Roast in a 350 degree F oven for about 45 minutes. Squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins and mash with a fork until a smooth paste forms.

For Egg Salad Sandwiches or Deviled eggs

6 hard boiled eggs

4 to 6 tbsp Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

To make either of these, I cut the eggs in half and remove the yolks which I then mix with the salad dressing. 

For the Egg salad, I will chop the whites into a fine dice then mix with the yolk filling ...or for deviled eggs, I just pipe the filling back into the hollow whites.

For the Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

4 cups cooked pasta, penne works well

3/4 cup Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing

1 1/2 cups chopped mixed vegetables of your choice. I used tomatoes, cucumber and sweet bell peppers.

 

 

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Nutrition Information

Yield

24

Serving Size

g

Amount Per Serving Calories 27Cholesterol 3mgSodium 162mgCarbohydrates 2gSugar 1g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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Mark Mercer

Friday 8th of September 2017

Just wondering if there is a shelf life to this ranch dressing

Barry C. Parsons

Saturday 9th of September 2017

I never keep it past several days. I'd suggest making a half batch if you are concerned about spoilage.

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