Try this delicious & much better for you No Mayo Cottage Cheese Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip. Quick & easy to make. No seed oils, no mayo, no nonsense ingredients.

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Cottage Cheese Salad Dressings – Made Better & Better For You

I love ALL the salad dressings & creamy dips like the next person. What I don’t like is all the seed oils & junk ingredients added to the bottled stuff I find in the grocery stores.

I started getting serious about making my own mayo, salad dressings & dipping sauces a few years ago. Absolutely no regrets on that. Seriously makes me feel 100% better about what we’re eating and about life in general.

Not only are you making something that is so much better for you, you can customize everything to your tastes. Also, subbing better for you ingredients make these salad dressings less of a condiment and more like part of the meal – you’re adding delicious nutritious value!

Perhaps the only down side to note is that the shelf life of homemade dressings. They aren’t going to be as long as that seed oil filled dressing from the store. So plan accordingly. I make this Cottage Cheese Blue Cheese Dressing on the weekly during football & wing season. Off season, I plan salads & fresh cut veggies for the week to minimize waste.

No problems with waste here, though. This dressing always gets eaten.

For more homemade & healthier dressing & condiment recipes check out : Avocado Oil Mayonnaise Recipe, Honey Vinaigrette & Greek Yogurt Caesar Dressing

Ingredients & Instructions

To make this process easier get yourself an immersion blender and a few wide mouth mason jars and you can also have an assortment of home made condiments made in minutes.

Here are product links for Wide Mouth Ball Mason Jars & the Immersion Blender I have loved & used for years.

Alternatively, you can use a blender for this recipe. A whisk is not going to work. We’re transforming (breaking down) the curd of the cottage cheese into creaminess.

I only & always use 4% milkfat cottage cheese. It’s the creamiest and yields the best results.

You’ll also note I use garlic powder instead of raw garlic. I’ve learned over the years that fresh minced garlic plays nicely in oil based salad dressings. Raw garlic overpowers in creamy cottage cheese or Greek yogurt dressings. That’s great if that’s what you’re going for – but not in this recipe.

I prefer buttermilk in this Cottage Cheese Blue Cheese Dressing. In a pinch, you can substitute milk or light cream – but buttermilk is best. How much buttermilk you’re going to add depends on how thick you’d like this dressing. I recommend 4-8 tablespoons.

I add all ingredients (minus half the blue cheese) into a mason jar and blend with an immersion blender until smooth. I then use a long enough handled spoon to stir in the remaining blue cheese crumbles.

Let this dressing sit & chill for flavors to blend for at least a few hours.

Use this dressing with salads, fresh veggies, wings – anywhere you love creamy blue cheese dressing goodness!

Hope you enjoy!

Amanda ♥

Cottage Cheese Blue Cheese Dressing and Dip

Try this delicious & much better for you No Mayo Cottage Cheese Blue Cheese Dressing & Dip. Quick & easy to make. No seed oils, no mayo, no nonsense ingredients.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Course condiments

Cuisine American

Servings 1.5 cups

Equipment

• immersion blender optional
• wide mouth mason jar optional

Ingredients

  

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• 1 cup cottage cheese 4% milkfat, small curd
• 6 tablespoon buttermilk 4 -8 tablespoon depending on desired thickness
• 4 ounces blue cheese crumbles divided
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 pinch salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

 

• Add cottage cheese, buttermilk, half of the blue cheese crumbles, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, salt & pepper to mason jar.

  How much buttermilk you're going to add depends on how thick you'd like this dressing. I recommend 4-8 tablespoons. Start with 4 tablespoons and add more if you'd like it thinner. 6 tablespoons is usually perfect for me.
• Using immersion blender, blend ingredients until combined & cottage cheese is completely smooth.
• Using a long handled spoon, stir in remaining blue cheese crumbles.
• Cap/cover jar and store in fridge. Allow flavors to blend for a few hours before using. Enjoy!

Notes

Before adding ingredients, make sure your immersion blender fits into jar if using immersion blender & wide mouth mason jar. For the sake of simplicity & less cleanup I mix and store in a jar. You can use any bowl or a blender if you’d like.

Keyword blue cheese, dip, salad dressing

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