This is the best homemade blue cheese dressing recipe you will ever make! It is incredibly easy and wicked good. The thick and creamy dressing is made with crumbled blue cheese, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon juice. It is perfect for everyday meals or entertaining!
I have a big character flaw; I am a HUGE salad dressing SNOB. I stick my nose up at anything that isn't homemade. If you try to serve me something with that fake store bought mess, I will give you a glare. If I am at your house and you serve me a salad with salad dressing that didn't at least from the refrigerated section, I will politely smile, eat it, and say thank you (my mama taught me manners). But in my head, I am having a temper tantrum, rolling my eyes, and possibly gagging. The fake ranch sends me to a mental breakdown; I can't stand that stuff… YUCK!!
Homemade Blue Cheese Salad Dressing
I make most of my salad dressings from scratch. In addition to this homemade blue cheese salad dressing recipe, I also have the following homemade salad dressings on the blog:
- Homemade Balsamic Vinaigrette
- Copycat Olive Garden Salad Dressing
- Creamy Parmesan Salad Dressing
- And a 20 Incredibly Delicious Homemade Salad Dressing Round Up Post!
Why oh Why would you want to use store-bought dressing when homemade is so easy? Salad dressing is one of the easiest things you can make in the kitchen? I understand maybe moms giving their kids the yucky plastic bottled stuff because kids are weird, picky little eaters with undeveloped taste buds that don't know any better half of the time, but why would an adult want that stuff????? Ewe!
If we go out to eat, I always ask which dressings are homemade. When the restaurants don't have any homemade my husband gives me a look like a deer in headlights. I know he is thinking, "Uh oh, here we go again… Just suck it up." He could care less. I pout, sometimes refuse to eat it; or if I do eat it, I eat it with a disdained disgusted look on my face. I am not good at faking facial expressions.
What can I say? It is my character flaw. If I owned a restaurant, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I would serve FAKE SALAD DRESSINGS!!! Why go through the expense, time, and effort to serve a beautiful fresh salad just to turn around and top it with some bland, full of preservatives, highly processed, fake colored tasteless sauce? Inquiring minds want to know.
The best homemade blue cheese dressing
To save you the dilemma of buying that Gawd Awful plastic bottle blue cheese mystery stuff, I am sharing with you the BEST Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe ever!!! You are welcome! I found it in this little cookbook called,"Heavenly Bits of Baptist Cookery." Inside, I have discovered all kinds of incredible recipes in this book for some gooooooood Southern cooking. As you can see, I have used this book just a little bit. My husband's granny gave it to me. It has been a treasured jewel in my kitchen. Church cookbooks are always the best for simple, homemade, tasty recipes… I have collected probably about 50…
How do you make the salad dressing?
With this dressing, you literally just throw the ingredients all together in a bowl. Mix together and BAMB! Magic for your salads! How easy is that?
What type of blue cheese should you use in homemade blue cheese dressing?
There are actually several types of blue cheese to use for blue cheese dressing. Each blue cheese will give your homemade blue cheese dressing a different flavor!
- Danish blue cheese is creamy, mild, and smooth. It is perfect if you want a mild blue cheese dressing.
- Gorgonzola is an Italian blue cheese that varies from soft to crumbly. It is made with goats milk, cows milk, or both. It is on the lighter side of flavoring in the blue cheese family.
- Maytag is an American blue cheese that is made with cows milk. It too is creamy and mild.
- If you want a strong kick or bite to your blue cheese dressing, you can try a Stilton. It is stronger and more pungent than the Danish, Gorgonzola, or Maytag.
- Roquefort is a strong, "stinky" cheese. This is a cheese only for serious blue cheese fans. It is very strong in flavor. Most people will run from stilton, so I don't recommend using it in your homemade dressing if you are making it for others to enjoy.
What to eat with blue cheese dressing?
Blue cheese is amazing on salad, but it is also fantastic on many other things! Try this blue cheese dressing on the following:
- Use it as a sandwich spread.
- Put it on a burger.
- Use it for my spicy buffalo wings dip.
- Use it for a dip for pretzels or homemade chips.
- Use it in potato salad rather than mayonnaise.
- Drizzle on pizza.
- Toss it with cut up raw cauliflower and broccoli for a broccoli/cauliflower blue cheese salad
- Use it as a dip for my buffalo cauliflower bites
- Use it as a dip for french fries
- Add it to a baked potato
If you are a blue cheese (aka "stinky cheese") lover like me, check out:
- Blue Cheese Compound Butter
- Buffalo Deviled Eggs
- Asparagus and Blue Cheese Rollups
- Individual Bread Dressing with Pears, Bacon, and Blue Cheese
- Pear, Blue Cheese, and Caramelized Onion Galette
You will love these recipes also.
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Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbs fresh lemon juice
- 6 drops hot sauce
- 3 /1/2 ounce blue cheese, crumbled
- 1 tbs Worcestershire sauce
- salt & pepper to taste
- 1/2 tsp fresh minced garlic
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients well. Add Crumbled blue cheese last.
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Nutrition- Nutrition info is based on estimation only.
CookingHealsMySoul
Just made this, and it's delicious! For the people (I use to be you.) that say they don't like blue cheese dressing, it's only because you haven't had homemade!!! Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Katie
That sounds delicious! I love a good wedge salad and this one sounds spectacular. Thanks for sharing.
Johnpingpong
I saw Mike Collameco at a place in Queens called M.Wells and here's what the chef there did. Half a head of iceberg on the hot grill for just a char. Quarter that into a wedge. Gently separate the leaves and put about a quarter pound of rendered pork belly or thick bacon (couldn't we use some jowl bacon here?) in between the leaves. Don't do this sparingly. Add smoked salted pecan bits in with the pork as you go. THEN take a slathering of YOUR bleu cheese (or gorgonzola) dressing over the top and eat that thing. Since ya'll like to travel, you need to go to the big apple. Watch every episode of Collameco before you go and take notes.
Katie
Hi Kathryn... serving size is about 2 tbs. Based on what is pulling up that I can see on the back end, the total carb amount for the entire recipe is so small, that it is saying the serving has no carbs... but basically there is about 1/10th of a carb in a serving... it just is so small it does not populate.
Kathryn Smith
What is the serving size that goes with the nutritional facts? I may have just missed it. And any carbs?
Jack B. Nimble
A helpful hint for those who like Duke's or Blue Plate - both can be found on Walmart.com and shipped to the door. I buy Duke's by the gallon from Walmart.com cheaper than I can buy a gallon of store brand mayonnaise from Sam's Club. We make a lot of cole slaw, potato salad, dressings, etc, so we go through a lot of mayonnaise. Hellman's has gotten terribly expensive, so it's Duke's or Blue Plate for me.
Jeannine Brunk-Aleksa
I just made a half recipe of this for a "dinner for two". Wonderful!! Family recipes from a cookbook or those just from memory are the best. Thanks so much for sharing!
Michelle @ Vitamin Sunshine
I'm totally with you-- salad dressings are way better homemade. I haven't bought a jar in years and years. This one looks really special!
Diana
This is something my Mum will love as she's a big fan of blue cheese!
Mahy
That has to be one of my favorite dressings ever!! I absolutely love the touch of hot sauce you added, I think it makes all the difference! Can't wait to make it!
Traci The Kitchen Girl
Oh goodness...If I find myself at a party...with this dip...I WILL eat the whole thing - and never be invited back LOL. Ok, srsly, that's how much I love this dip. Thanks for sharing!
Lauren
Hand down cookbooks are just the best - looks plenty loved.
Katie
I prefer Dukes. I am not sure where you live. I know they sell it here in the South. It tastes like it is homemade. If you can find it, you will love it. I would use Kraft as a second choice. I am pretty sure they sell that everywhere.
Sally
I have a very similar blue cheese dressing recipe that I absolutely love. What mayo do you use? I have noticed lately that when I store it for a few days the consistancy changes dramatically and it becomes very soupy. I use Hellman's and I did read that their recipe has changed. That is the only difference I can think of. I used to make it all the time and never had this problem at all.
Lisa | Garlic & Zest
This resembles the blue cheese dressing my grandmother used to make every Sunday to go with her iceberg lettuce salad! Also, I can't tell you how many of those types of cookbooks I have!
Georgina @theamazingflavoursofbrazil.com
Looks fantastic Katie, I am crazy about blue cheese, anything with blue cheese. I am pinning this recipe straight away.
Ann| Cooking Maniac
this looks so yummy! can't wait to try it 🙂
Siri & Joseph
I love this recipe. I have never thought about making this at home, but I will try it for sure.
karrie @ Tasty Ever After
I feel the absolute same way about salad dressings! AND blue cheese dressing is my favorite! We always had homemade salad dressing growing up but then I would go over to a friend's house for dinner and the bottled dressing would be on the table. Ugh. I think people don't know how easy it is to make them at home, so they just buy a bottle. Thanks for this recipe and for educating the world Katie. lol! 🙂
Tez @ Chile and Salt
This looks so good Katie! & I love anything Blue Cheese!!