Sauces & dressings

Greek yogurt ranch

Name: Greek yogurt ranch
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 3/4 cup whole-milk greek yogurt; 3 tbsp low-fat buttermilk; 4 tsp mayonnaise; juice of 1/2 lemon; 1 tsp garlic powder; 1 tsp onion powder; 1 tsp dried dill; 2 tbsp fresh chives, snipped; 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Ranch rebuilt on a protein base: thick yogurt, buttermilk tang, and the full herb cabinet. A dressing that adds protein instead of just calories — it carries the burger bowls, the crudités, and anything else that wants dipping.

Time: 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 47 kcal
Protein: 3 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

3/4 cup whole-milk greek yogurt200 g
3 tbsp low-fat buttermilk40 g
4 tsp mayonnaise20 g
juice of 1/2 lemon15 g
1 tsp garlic powder3 g
1 tsp onion powder3 g
1 tsp dried dill2 g
2 tbsp fresh chives, snipped5 g
2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped5 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g
1/2 tsp black pepper1 g

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Steps

Whisk everything together in a bowl.
Thin with extra buttermilk, a spoonful at a time, if you want it pourable rather than dippable.
Rest 30 minutes in the fridge — the dried herbs need it. Keeps 5 days.

Versus bottled ranch?

Bottled ranch is roughly 450 kcal per 100 g and nearly all fat. This is about a quarter of that, with actual protein — per spoonful the difference compounds fast on anything you eat weekly.

Why this score

Protein22% of calories

61/100

Low energy density127 kcal per 100 g

63/100

Fiber5 g per 1000 kcal

15/100

Hyper-palatabilityengineered fat · sugar · salt pattern

−15%

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 376 kcal goes into the pot, 296 g of ingredients comes out as ~295 g of food → 127kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

The numbers

	Per serving (37 g)	Per 100 g
Energy	47 kcal	127 kcal
Protein	2.6 g	7.1 g
Fat	3.1 g	8.3 g
Carbohydrate	2.5 g	6.7 g
…of which sugars	0.9 g	2.5 g
Fiber	0.2 g	0.7 g
Sodium	127 mg	345 mg

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.