Homemade ranch seasoning makes a great seasoning to keep on hand for ranch dressing, dips, chips, and more!
My family loves ranch dressing. Well, let me just admit that I probably love it more than anyone else in the family, but you get the point.
I could eat it on just about anything – from salads, vegetables, to dipping my fries into it, it is one of my favorite condiments. For years, I’ve been making my own buttermilk ranch dressing using fresh herbs and have also kept a little jar of my ranch seasoning mix in a little jar on standby for those days when fresh herbs weren’t available.
Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix Recipe
Through this winter, I’d depleted my little stash of ranch seasoning mix and yesterday, as I was blending up a new jar, I knew I wanted to share with you just how easy it is to make yourself. It is definitely a pantry staple at my house and so much better than those packets you can buy.
How to Make Homemade Ranch Seasoning
My homemade seasoning mix uses dried herbs and spices that you probably already have in your pantry. By using the dried herbs and spices, your seasoning mix will be pantry stable so that you can quickly add it to all sorts of recipes for dips, dressings, and to add flavor to any number of dishes!
What are the Ingredients in Ranch Seasoning?
My homemade ranch seasoning mix only uses six ingredients.
- dried parsley
- dried dill weed
- granulated garlic
- granulated onion
- kosher salt
- black pepper
You’ll notice that all of the ingredients are of different sizes and textures.
The finer textured ingredients in the mix – like the salt and garlic – generally settles to the bottom of the bottle. To make sure that my mix stays mixed consistently, I add all of the ingredients into my spice grinder and pulse about five times to make it more consistent. You can also use a food processor or blender if you don’t have spice grinder handy.
It stays perfectly combined and ready to use!
You can also skip that step if you prefer and make sure to whisk your seasoning mix with a fork before use if it settles.
How Long Does Ranch Seasoning Mix Last?
Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix is shelf stable for up to a year, depending on the age of your dried herbs and spices. In other words, the fresher the herbs and spices that you use in your mix, the longer it will last. I like to refresh my ranch seasoning supply at least every six months, if it has even lasted that long in my pantry!
If you do not plan to use this mix very often, you can absolutely cut the recipe in half to make a smaller amount and if you are like me, you can easily increase it as well!
Favorite Recipes Using Ranch Seasoning Mix
Here’s my Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix recipe. I hope you love it as much as we do!
Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon dried dill weed
- 1 tablespoon granulated garlic
- 1 tablespoon granulated onion
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a food processor, blender, or spice grinder and pulse about 5 to 7 times. Pour into a container and store in the pantry for use.
Notes
Mix 1 tablespoon of this ranch seasoning mix with 1/3 cup mayonnaise and 1/4 cup buttermilk. Makes 1/4 cup.Â
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
This is amazing! We love ranch dressing and I never thought to make the dry ingredients like this and have it easily ready to make into dressing. How long do you think it lasts refrigerated once it’s all mixed up?
Can you use this to make ranch DIP? Do you have a ratio to sour cream or should I start with 1 tbsp and add maybe a tsp at a time till it’s comparable?
Would this be good to mix with sour cream or do you have to use mayo and butter milk for it to taste right?
I did not have parsley or onion powder, but used 2 Tbsp dillweed and other ingredients as listed. Added it all to 1 cup mayo and 1 cup sour cream to spread over a layered salad. Excellent. I can’t wait to taste it tomorrow after refrigeration.
Hi
I live in India and don’t have access to dried dill weed can I sub oregano
A few of the sites I’ve looked at recommended using tarragon in place of the dried dill weed in equal parts.
One question: when you list granulated onion and garlic, are you referring to garlic $ onion powders or salts?
Hi TM,
I am using granulated garlic and granulated onion. Granulated garlic has a more coarse texture than garlic powder, the same with onion. If you have garlic and onion powder and not granulated, you can still use those. Just use 1/2 of the amount listed for granulated in recipes since it is a finer texture. I hope that helps!
Thanks for sharing. My family loves ranch dressing, and I prefer scratch cooking limiting all the preservatives I love your posts, since they use commen ingredients that I usually have on hand. I grow a large garden and do a lot of home canning-veggies, fruits, jams, jellies, relishes etc.
In response to Elle, have you ever tried dried buttermilk? You can mix up the amount you need as needed. It does mix up thinner in consistency than fresh buttermilk. It comes in a can with a reseable lid.
hi – looks interesting. is there anything other than buttermilk that can be substituted? or do you have a recipe to make buttermilk? its just that I don’t use buttermilk for anything else and it would go bad before using it all. thanks!
I’ve always made buttermilk when I didn’t have the real thing by putting a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice in a cup and filling the cup with regular milk. Stir well and let it sit for a few minutes. I’m thinking you could probably use powdered buttermilk in this recipe. I would mix the dry seasoning with the powdered milk, add the mayonnaise, and just enough milk to fret the dressing to the correct consistency.
Hello, this homemade seasoning looks delicious. I will make it tomorrow and leave you a review. Thanks
Wow, never realized it was this easy, Robyn! Would a tablespoon of this be equivalent to a packet then?
Thanks again!!
xoxo
Hi Bobbie,
It is about as simple as can be! That’s exactly what I do, but I will say that the packets also contain dry buttermilk powder and I think some type of thickeners as well.
And none of the artificial additives in packaged mixes!
Yes! I think that is my favorite part of all! xo