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A low fat ranch dressing will leave you feeling cool as a cucumber! Light and refreshing, perfect on a simple wedge of lettuce, with tomatoes and cucumbers.
This ranch dressing was lightened up with Greek yogurt, low fat buttermilk and light mayonnaise along with cucumbers, Spring chives, parsley and a hint of lemon. If you don’t like mayonnaise you could replace it with more buttermilk and yogurt.
Skinny Cucumber Ranch Dressing
This ranch dressing was lightened up with Greek yogurt, low fat buttermilk and light mayonnaise along with cucumbers, Spring chives, parsley and a hint of lemon. If you don't like mayonnaise you could replace it with more buttermilk and yogurt.
Yield: 7 servings
Serving Size: 1 /4 cup
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup lowfat buttermilk
- 1/4 cup light mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup fat free Greek yogurt
- 1 small cucumber, peeled and seeds removed
- 3 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 cup chives or scallions
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a blender.
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Serving: 1 /4 cup, Calories: 43.5 kcal, Carbohydrates: 3.5 g, Protein: 2 g, Fat: 2.5 g, Fiber: 0.5 g
Gina, What can I use as a (dairy free) substitute for the yogurt? (can't use sour cream either). I can eat mayo and I'm going to substitute lactose milk and vinegar for the buttermilk. Thanks!
This was perfect for last night's main dish salad. I subbed cilantro and lime for the parsley and lemon, and threw in half of a seeded jalapeño. Was a bit short on chives, so some red onion worked as a stand-in. And finally, used full fat plain yogurt. Thanks for such wonderful inspiration!!!
How much sodium is in a serving?
mine came out runny and not green… hmm
What can I add to this instead of Mayo?
This is wonderful! Light and fresh and flavorful!!!! I did not have parsley so I used cilantro! YUMMO!
this is SO YUMMY. very light and refreshing, I can't wait for my salad for lunch tomorrow!
This would be great with dill too!!
This looks amazing I will be making it soon. We are overflowing with cucumbers right now! Have you tried this with fresh dill?
What type of light mayo do you use? I have light mayo in my fridge but it is 5 grams of fat for 1 tablespoon. Does this sound like yours? I just want to make sure that I don't increase the number of points!
For a 1/4 of a cup of milk, put maybe 1-2 tsp of vinegar or lemon to make buttermilk. Let it sit for a few minutes until it thickens. I like lots of vinegar and like to watch it curdle to buttermilk!
Just wondering, how much vinegar and how much milk? Never tried this before.
thanks
I made this today with vinegar and milk instead of buttermilk. It's awesome! It doesn't even taste low fat.
This dressing is great! I actually liked this one more than the cilantro lime dressing. Thanks for another wonderful recipe 🙂
Made this today and love it! It's so light and crisp. It tastes like summer to me! I love that your dressings are so light that a serving is a 1/4 cup. That's huge, love it! I don't know that I'm ever going to buy bottled again.