This Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip uses only 2 ingredients, 5 minutes, and a food processor to make the most delicious, rich, and healthy ranch dip. My high-protein Cottage Cheese Dip is simply irresistible with its creamy texture, and ranch flavors that are perfect for dipping everything from fresh veggies, and crackers to chips.
Love making stuff from scratch? Make it with my DIY Ranch Seasoning Mix!
Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip
Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip is a surprisingly simple recipe whose flavors and textures will blow your mind! It's made with just two ingredients - cottage cheese and ranch seasoning - to blend the richest, creamiest, and most flavorful ranch dip you've ever had. It will blow your mind! The taste is on point too. You'll think you are enjoying a rich dip, but in reality, it's really good for you, and a generous helping, ½ cup, is only around 100 calories with 12 grams of protein in each serving.
With viral recipes on TikTok, cottage cheese is having its foodie moment, and for good reason. It's the perfect high-protein base for dips and dressings that easily blends with a food processor into a dip consistency that's easy and tasty. It's way better than the sour cream ranch dips you'll find in the store. You can add any of your favorite seasonings, but you can't go wrong with making a Cottage Cheese Dip into a classic Healthy Ranch Dip.
It's a special, healthy recipe that you have to add to your menu this year. This recipe just happens to be low-cal, low-carb, high-protein, gluten-free, vegetarian, and more. It's perfect for everything from kids' snacks to evening snacks, weekend parties, or even a Super Bowl party. It's kid-approved too! Mine loved this!
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Why You'll Love this Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip...
- This Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip is the ultimate 2 two-ingredient recipe that only takes 5 minutes to make.
- You can make it super simple by using your favorite packaged dry ranch dressing mix or make your own DIY Ranch Seasoning.
- It's super healthy and guilt-free with only 100 calories and 12 grams of protein.
- It's easy enough to make for a quick afternoon snack but tastes good enough for any party or event.
- You can serve it with any of your favorite dippers from veggies, crackers, chips, or even a spread for a sandwich or wrap.
- You can make a batch ahead and enjoy it all week.
- It tastes so good that you'll never realize it's a super healthy recipe!
Ingredients:
Here's an overview of what you'll need to make this Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip, but keep scrolling for the full recipe amounts.
- Cottage Cheese: You'll need a 16-ounce container of savory cottage cheese for the Cottage Cheese Dip. You can use full-fat, low-fat, or fat-free depending on your dietary preferences. Full-fat cottage cheese will give you a creamier, richer dip, but you can make it with whichever you prefer. It's still good with even fat-free cottage cheese.
- Ranch Seasoning Mix: You can use the classic Hidden Valley Ranch Seasoning or make your own DIY Ranch Seasoning. The DIY Ranch Seasoning is made up of parsley, chives, onion powder, garlic powder, dried dill, salt, pepper, and powdered buttermilk. One of the packets of the ranch is 3 tablespoons of seasoning, so you'll need that much to make the dip.
You'll also need a good blend or food processor to make this whipped cottage cheese dip blend nice and smooth. I love this one because it has both a food processor and blender attachment and blends anything super smooth and creamy.
Instructions:
This is an overview of the instructions to make this Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip, but the full detailed printable recipe is below in the recipe card.
- In a high-speed blender or food processor, add the cottage cheese and ranch seasoning. You can see below the before and after of blending it and how easily it turns into a creamy, lump-free creamy dip.
- Pour into a bowl and serve with fresh vegetables and crackers.
- You can also transfer it to an airtight container and store it in the fridge, allowing the flavors to blend before serving.
Variations
I love this Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip as written, but here are some fun variations. The Cottage Cheese Dip base of this recipe can be tweaked to make so many different dips!
- Add Fresh Herbs: Elevate this dip by adding some fresh herbs like fresh parsley, fresh basil, or fresh dill.
- Add Fresh Garlic: Make it extra garlic and add a fresh garlic clove.
- Mix up the Seasonings: You can easily turn cottage cheese into any flavored dip with some of my other homemade seasoning blends. You can also try my Cajun Spice Mix, Taco Seasoning, Italian Seasoning, and Everything Bagel Seasoning.
- Make it Spicy: Add your favorite hot sauce.
- Make it Healthy Ranch Dressing: To make it more of a dressing consistency, add a few tablespoons of milk until you hit the right consistency.
- Add Lemon: Brighten it up by adding some fresh lemon juice.
- Make Big Batch: Easily double or triple this recipe by clicking on the 2X or 3X on the recipe card. You can then make it ahead and have some for the week!
FAQ
Storage & Leftovers
Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Freezing
I would not recommend freezing this dip as the consistency would be strange when you thaw it out.
What is the difference between ranch dressing and ranch dip?
The difference between ranch dressing and ranch dip is the thickness. A ranch dressing is thinner and has an easy time drizzling on a salad. It has more oil or milk to help it thin out. A Ranch Dip is thicker, so it sticks to whatever you are dipping on it easier. It's made to scoop out and is firmer in texture. This recipe makes a thicker dip, but follow my instructions above in variations to make it into a dressing. You can also make my Healthy Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing if you want another type of healthy ranch that isn't made with cottage cheese.
What are the best things to dip in ranch?
There are so many things you can put ranch on! For this recipe, I keep it healthy and serve it with veggies and crackers but the possibilities are endless including burgers, avocado toast, wings, pizza, chicken fingers, french fries, onion rings, and even tacos! This Healthy Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip has so many uses.
This Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip is a Game-Changer!
With only 2 Ingredients and 5 minutes, you can make the tastiest, healthiest recipe I've shared in a long time. This Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip is truly a game-changer and one you'll find yourself whipping up again and again. Whether you serve my Cottage Cheese Dip recipe as a snack or at a party, you can't go wrong with this crazy simple, and delicious recipe. The fun doesn't stop with this just being a dip though, here are a few other tasty ways to enjoy it.
I hope you love this recipe as much as I do!
Ways to Serve it:
- As a Dip: Serve it as a dip with your favorite fresh vegetables like carrot sticks, sliced cucumber, broccoli, radishes, snap peas, celery, and cherry tomatoes. It's also great with crackers, pretzels, pita chips, pita bread, chips, and more. Whatever you like to dip in ranch would be great! Even try my healthy Baked Curly Sweet Potato Fries or Oven Baked Parmesan Zucchini Fries.
- As a Spread: This also works great as a spread on a wraps or sandwiches. Even serve it on toast!
- As a Sauce: Also serve it as a sauce on pasta, tacos, baked potato, or your favorite bowl meal.
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More Ranch Recipes to Try:
- Homemade Ranch Seasoning Mix
- Everything Bagel Ranch
- Healthy Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing
- Greek Yogurt Chipolte Lime Ranch Dressing
- Cheesy Ranch Potatoes
- Roasted Parmesan Ranch Cauliflower
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Cottage Cheese Ranch Dip
Ingredients
- 16 ounce cottage cheese
- 3 tablespoons ranch seasoning
Instructions
- In a high-speed blender or food processor, add the cottage cheese and ranch seasoning.
- Pour into a bowl and serve with fresh vegetables and crackers.
- You can also transfer it to an airtight container and store it in the fridge, allowing the flavors to blend together before serving.
Notes
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Katie Crenshaw says
I love this dip. It has so much protein without adding tons of calories. I snack on this with my veggies all day.
Juyali says
Brilliant recipe! I would have never considered mixing cottage cheese with dressing, but it was delicious! Not to mention, easy. 🙂
Greta says
This was delicious. I was looking for a ranch recipe for my fries today, and this recipe got me curious because of the cottage cheese ingredient. I thought to give it a try, and I'm happy I did it. It was really good.
Cara says
Cottage cheese is so trendy right now! This dip recipe could not be easier, so simple and we always have what we need to make it