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This creamy, tangy Blue Cheese Dressing is perfect for salads or dipping your favorite veggies into as a snack! Make it as smooth or chunky as you like.
This easy to make homemade blue cheese dressing will have you ditching the store-bought bottles! Extra creamy and flavorful, this dressing comes together with simple ingredients.
The perfect companion to chicken wings, pizza, salads and more.
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Blue Cheese: Fresh crumbled blue cheese will give the best flavoring.
- Mayonnaise: Use your favorite brand, choosing egg-free or avocado oil if you want.
- Sour Cream: Substitute with plain greek yogurt.
- Buttermilk: This gives a nice tanginess to the dressing. If you don’t have any on hand you can make your own buttermilk by adding vinegar or lemon juice to regular milk.
Find the complete recipe card below with measurements and full instructions.
How to Make Blue Cheese Dressing
- In a food processor add all of the ingredients.
- Pulse for about 10 seconds until smooth and creamy. Add additional blue cheese crumbles as desired to make the dressing chunky, or to increase the blue cheese flavoring.
Serving
This Blue Cheese dressing is a favorite in our household. We use it on salads, especially this Classic Wedge Salad. For dipping with pizza (especially on this Pulled Pork Pizza), chicken wings, veggies.
Storage
Store this easy homemade dressing in the refrigerator in a sealed jar or container for up to 7 days. Make a double batch to keep some on hand to serve throughout the week!
More Salad & Dressing Recipes
- Homemade Italian Dressing
- Homemade Ranch Dressing
- Strawberry Salad with Poppyseed Dressing
- Avocado Ranch Dressing
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Blue Cheese Dressing
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup sour cream
- ½ cup buttermilk
- ¼ tsp salt
- ⅛ tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- 1½ tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 ounces blue cheese
Instructions
- In a food processor add all of the ingredients.
- Pulse for about 10 seconds until smooth and creamy. Can add additional blue cheese crumbles as desired to make the dressing chunky, or to increase the blue cheese flavoring.
Equipment
Notes
- Blue Cheese: Fresh crumbled blue cheese will give the best flavoring.
- Mayonnaise: Use your favorite brand, choosing egg-free or avocado oil if you want.
- Sour Cream: Substitute with plain greek yogurt.
- Buttermilk: This gives a nice tanginess to the dressing. If you don’t have any on hand you can make your own buttermilk by adding vinegar or lemon juice to regular milk.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe first published April 27, 2018. Updated April 1, 2024.
Photography by @KJandCompany.co
Used my immersion blender and it worked perfectly. Added more blue cheese because… why not… and it was delicious
Very good. I did add a bit more bleu cheese and one drop of lemon essential oil. It gave it just a hint of brightness. Some extra ground pepper.
Simple to make, I like to let my dressings set to age for at least 24 hrs.
That is if I can keep myself out of it. Because the testing while making it’s. FABULOUS!!! It’s well worth making.
Awesome! This was great, had a nice steakhouse dinner at home, and the bleu cheese wedge was the highlight. Amazing how something so simple can be so delicious.
This was quite simple! I didn’t have buttermilk so made my own with heavy cream, didn’t have any milk, and lemon juice. I put more blue cheese than 2 ounces and whipped it in my mini chop. This is far better than any store bought dressings which have a lot of preservatives. Next time I may substitute plain yogurt for the sour cream. Thank you for this!
This salad dressing is so delicious! And I don’t even like blue cheese (normally). I love it! I used an immersion blender and definitely added some extra chunks of cheese to make it thick and cheesy.
Delicious! This was my first attempt at a wedge salad. Salad and dressing were yummy. Will definitely use this recipe again. Served with salmon and mashed potatoes. What’s not to love?
What can you use to substitute for the buttermilk?
This is a nice dressing. I doubled the vinegar and used red wine vinegar. I would add more blue cheese after blending all together. Very nice flavor.
Made the dressing for this and it was so quick, easy and delicious! Thank you!