How to Make Blue Cheese Dressing?
For the full measurements, be sure to follow the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Make the milk base: In a small measuring cup, mix together the milk, lemon juice, and garlic.
- Create the right texture: Combine the milk mixture and blue cheese crumbles in a bowl. Use a fork to mash the blue cheese into the milk. You are looking for a consistency close to cottage cheese.
- Finish it off: Add in the remaining ingredients – sour cream, mayonnaise, white vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper.
After you have everything mixed in, taste the salad dressing to make sure that it has enough salt and pepper. If it isn’t popping to your tastes, add just a pinch of each until you hit the right flavor.
What is Blue Cheese
Blue Cheese is made using cultures of mold that combine to create the blue color that you see throughout the cheese. It is sold in both blocks and crumbles and has a bold flavor and very creamy texture.
Using Low Fat Ingredients
For this recipe, and other creamy dressings, I would not recommend using low fat mayonnaise. It provides a sweeter taste to the dressing than what we are going for.
While low fat sour cream can be used for creamy dressings, please note that the full fat version will provide a bolder flavor.
Using Blue Cheese Dressing
This dressing is fantastic on a basic side salad as you see here. The iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, and chives pair perfectly with the dressing in this classic recipe.
This dressing is also fantastic for buffalo wings.
Wedge Salad
Storing Blue Cheese Dressing
Because of the dairy in this recipe, I only recommend that you store homemade blue cheese dressing for 4 days in your refrigerator.
If you want to cut this recipe in half, you can do that easily by tapping the serving size scale in my recipe card. It will alter all the ingredient amounts in the recipe card.
Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup milk plus more as needed to thin
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 6 ounces blue cheese 1 1/2 cups
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
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In a small measuring cup, combine the milk, lemon juice, and garlic. Pour over the blue cheese in a small bowl.1/2 cup milk,2 tablespoons lemon juice,1 clove garlic,6 ounces blue cheese
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With the back of a fork mash up the blue chese, milk, lemon juice, and garlic. The consistency will be a bit lumpy, but the goal is the minimize large chunks of the cheese in the salad dressing. You are looking for a consistency similar to cottage cheese.
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Stir in the remaining ingredients. Add more salt and pepper to taste.1/2 cup sour cream,1/3 cup mayonnaise,2 tablespoons white vinegar,1/2 teaspoon sugar,1/2 teaspoon salt,1/2 teaspoon black pepper
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Store in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Stir before using.
