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Rethinking Ranch: Homemade Magic with Your Favorite Dressing

cooking

By Daniel R.

- Jun 4, 2024

Forget the bottle! Homemade ranch dressing is a simple way to add a gourmet touch to your favorite meals. Whether you prefer your ranch creamy traditional style, silky vegan, or with a kick of jalapeño, there's a world of possibility to explore. Ever tried Texas Ranch with smoked wings, or a zesty Ranch Roast chicken marinated in ranch dressing? How about Wild Mushroom Pizza, flavored with your made-from-scratch dressing? Your future favorite ranch recipe could be just a paragraph away. The acclaimed Chef Justin Smillie from Slow Fires NYC Mobile Fired Pizza, intensifies his classic buttermilk ranch recipe with dill, chives, Worcestershire, Tabasco, garlic, and shallot - perfect with vegetable sticks, seafood, pickled veggies, chicken wings, or salads. On the other hand, Calvin Eng, awarded Best New Chef of 2022 by F&W, adds a new level of depth to his ranch, using MSG, Kewpie mayonnaise, and garlic chives - an exquisite companion for any steamed vegetables, particularly Chinese celery, long beans, bok choy, and radishes. Sheldon Simeon reinvents traditional ranch with a furikake crunch. Served with roasted shishito peppers, it unlocks an unforgettable flavor experience. Likewise, the F&W Test Kitchen adds gourmet flair to their Wild Mushroom Pizza with homemade anchovy-infused Fancy Ranch. Discover another way to include ranch with F&W's Chandra Ram, who uses her own homemade buttermilk dressing as a marinade for a succulent roast chicken. Moreover, cheese curds fried in a beer-and-mustard batter, topped with herbal, creamy homemade ranch by Liz Mervosh, is just another irresistible delight waiting for you. Take it up another level with Ann Taylor Pittman and Scott Mowbray's creation: a luscious, chive-spiked dressing made from buttermilk, coconut cream, and sour cream. Alternatively, try introducing an Italian edge to your ranch with a dash of hot sauce and Calabrian chiles from New York City's Bad Roman. For vegans, Justin Chapple's coconut yogurt-based ranch dressing is a showstopper. Served with sunflower seeds, thinly sliced radishes, and sprouts, it adds a satisfying crunch. And to spice up your life, check out Chef Ben Ford's sugared, pickled jalapeño buttermilk ranch, served best with Hill Country Smoked Chicken Wings. Experience the versatility and flavor explosion of homemade ranch dressing today.