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This is good stuff! Creamy avocado dressing with a little zing from the jalapeño pepper.
Make a boring grilled chicken salad exciting, use it over greens, on a sandwich, and it even makes a great dip if you use a little less buttermilk! This keeps refrigerated a few days without turning brown. Low-carb, gluten-free, egg-free, vegetarian and delicious!
Zesty Avocado Cilantro Buttermilk Dressing
This is good stuff! Creamy avocado dressing with a little zing from the jalapeño pepper.
Yield: 6 servings
Serving Size: 3 1/2 Tablespoons
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup low-fat buttermilk
- 1 small jalapeno seeds removed, leave them in if you want it spicy
- 1/4 cup of fresh cilantro
- 1 medium haas avocado
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 tbsp chopped scallion
- juice of 1 lime
- 1/8 tsp cumin
- 1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
- For a thinner dressing add more buttermilk, for a thicker dip use less.
Last Step:
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Serving: 3 1/2 Tablespoons, Calories: 50 kcal, Carbohydrates: 5 g, Protein: 2 g, Fat: 3 g, Saturated Fat: 0.6 g, Cholesterol: 1 mg, Sodium: 128 mg, Fiber: 1.5 g, Sugar: 2 g
This was delicious. The whole family liked it.
I think my avocado was a little too big so the dressing was a bit thick and I had to add more buttermilk.
I will definitely make this again!
When put into MyFitnessPal 6 servings equals 96 calories per serving. Is the serving size possibly off??
I love this dressing!
This is so good – hard to believe that it is only 50 cal for 3 1/2 Tbls. Going to add more buttermilk to the leftovers for salad dressing. Thanks for the great recipe.
I love this dressing! I made it for the crockpot chicken and bean salad (which was delicious), but then I used the dressing over an egg/egg white scramble for the next week—so so good!! I have a hard time with plain scrambled eggs, but this dressing just upped the whole thing.
Absolutely amazing! Great easy and tasty dressing. I drizzled it over a boneless chicken breast. YUM!
I don’t have any milk on hand and would love to make this. Could I use non fat Greek yogurt instead?
This is my second time making this and I did not have any buttermilk this time so I subbed sour cream and a little bit of water. It came out great both ways. Thanks so much for this recipe, Gina! I love it on taco salad.
Do you ever make buttermilk from scratch using regular milk? When ever we make a recipe that involves buttermilk we end up throwing away a good amount of the buttermilk. I’m trying to figure out how to not waste so much of the the buttermilk.
I have used a tablespoon of vinegar in a cup of milk to create buttermilk for cornbread I haven’t tried it in a dressing….i despaired for years at waste of buttermilk until I decided just to freeze leftover in increments that made sense like one cup. It looks separated when you thaw it So you may only want to use this in a baked good….i hope others post their ideas.
Good stuff! I bought a slimcado at Target?anykne use those? Has 50% the fat & 35% the calories, although it’s a good fat in the original I know. I used half of one, they’re big, and followed it. Realized the reason I don’t own cumin is because I hate it lol. I don’t like chili powder either and they’re similar? Any ideas as to what to substitute for cumin? I’ll definitely be making this again. Whirred it all up in mini-cuisinart.
How long will this last?
A few days in the fridge.
Made this as suggested with the salmon cakes – so good!! And would go good with salad, chicken tacos, enchiladas!!! I want more and have no willpower….but will since it’s Skinnytaste! Thanks GINA!
Must have made this a dozen times. It is so simple, and so delicious. Lends itself to substitutions, depending on what’s in the pantry, today it’s a veggie dip, tomorrow it’s a salad dressing, maybe tomorrow it’s a bowl topping. Awesome!