A Really Good Salad Dressing

This is a light, flavourful salad dressing which works particularly well with a crisp Cos lettuce. It takes minutes to make and will keep in the fridge for a couple of days.

With buttermilk, lemon and herbs, it will be familiar to transatlantic friends as a sort of ranch dressing but is perhaps not so ubiquitous this side of the pond.

I usually make it with snipped chives and a crushed clove of garlic, but as it’s wild garlic season, I changed it up. It’s very good either way.

I haven’t been posting many recipes recently – apologies, I’ve been busy with a Ukraine fundraiser and the cookery school and I haven’t had time to write things up. So this is a bonus wild garlic post, while it’s still in season.

I’m sharing it because everyone who’s tasted it has asked for the recipe. Did I mention it’s a Really Good Salad Dressing? Here goes.

Buttermilk Salad Dressing

  • Servings: makes 1 small jar
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Ingredients:

150 ml buttermilk

1 heaped dessertspoon of good quality mayonnaise

6 or 8 wild garlic leaves (or a crushed clove of garlic and small bunch of snipped chives)

The zest and juice of 1/2 lemon (or more, to taste)

Salt and pepper

Image of buttermilk and wild garlic salad dressing in use

Method:

Strip the stem and central vein from the wild garlic, place the leaves one on top of another, roll up like a cigar and slice thinly (a chiffonade). Then chop smaller.

In a bowl, stir together the buttermilk and mayonnaise. Add the wild garlic and lemon juice and zest. Season to taste with salt and pepper and mix well. Thin with a little water if necessary.

Cover and place in the fridge until needed. Job done.

18 thoughts on “A Really Good Salad Dressing

  1. Cannot wait to try this – with ordinary garlic I’m afraid . . . it looks and sounds much lighter and healthier than what I know as ‘ranch dressing’ ! Have clapped quite a bit reading about your work for Ukraine – kudos !!!

    • Thanks, Eha, pleased you like it. It works just as well with regular garlic and chives. And thanks re Ukraine – raising money makes one feel a little less helpless. Linda x

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