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Vegan Avocado Ranch Dressing
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- Total Time
- 5 minutes
- Rating
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Ingredients
- 1medium, ripe avocado, halved and pitted
- ½cup roughly chopped dill fronds and stems, plus more as needed
- 4teaspoons dill pickle brine, plus more as needed
- 1small garlic clove, grated
- 3tablespoons finely chopped dill pickles
- Kosher salt and black pepper
Preparation
- Step 1
In a food processor, combine the avocado, dill, pickle brine and garlic with ⅓ cup water. Season with salt and pepper, and process until smooth.
- Step 2
Stir in the chopped pickles. Taste and adjust balance and consistency with more brine, water, salt, black pepper and dill.
- Leftovers will keep for up to 2 days in the fridge. The top will brown, but it will go away once stirred.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Wonderful! And a sprinkle of parsley adds a nice touch, too. Goes really well with greens, squashes, and seaweed.
*Ranch* dressing has buttermilk.
How would an avocado dressing not be vegan in the first place. What would be in it otherwise? Honey?
a lot of ranch dressings have buttermilk and / or mayo.
perhaps leave the chopped pickles out, and as the predominant flavor in pickle brine is vinegar, maybe use apple cider vinegar. add a pinch of sugar if the dressing is too acidic. if you really can't stand vinegar of any kind, try fresh lemon juice - it would be a different dressing at that point i think, but still good!
I wanted a little more zip so next time I’ll try adding brine from pickled jalapeños.
Not sure how this recipe gets “Ranch” in its title?
Would the brine from sauerkraut work too?
I needed a lot of tweaking to not be flat. I added more salt than I thought I should and lemon juice as well. OK, but nothing to write home about. Nice to get a lot of avo.
What is a substitute for the pickle brine
Vinegar And salt
I'm not a fan of pickles or pickle brine (sadly...I know that's odd). Is this OK to reduce the amounts of those, or is there anything else to substitue for that? Just curious... but I love avocado, so I'm definitely in for trying this!
perhaps leave the chopped pickles out, and as the predominant flavor in pickle brine is vinegar, maybe use apple cider vinegar. add a pinch of sugar if the dressing is too acidic. if you really can't stand vinegar of any kind, try fresh lemon juice - it would be a different dressing at that point i think, but still good!
How would an avocado dressing not be vegan in the first place. What would be in it otherwise? Honey?
a lot of ranch dressings have buttermilk and / or mayo.
*Ranch* dressing has buttermilk.
Dairy! You have to read the labels.
Wonderful! And a sprinkle of parsley adds a nice touch, too. Goes really well with greens, squashes, and seaweed.
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