How to Make 4 Ingredients Homemade Ranch Seasoning Recipe

This easy homemade ranch seasoning will find a place in your heart and spice cabinet, I guarantee it!

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Are you a fan of RANCH DRESSING?

If you’re a ranch dressing fan, I bet you can name 2 or 3 of the best places you can order ranch dressing for your salad or dipping sauce right now.

For me it’s the restaurant owned by a long time family friend and one I worked in for my teenage years. The only salad dressing homemade was their ranch. All the others came in huge plastic jugs ordered in from their distributor.

But the ranch! It’s always been the king. Always the first dressing to need replacing on any given busy night on the salad bar. It’s what most diners drizzle on their salad, dip their blooming onion petals in, and pour on their baked potato. Basically, we all kind of wish we could just put a straw in it. 

Do I know whether or not the “ranch” was a powdered mix or homemade? I can’t rightly say because I don’t remember. Just vivid memories seeing them whisk that dressing fast-like in a bowl tucked under their arm before opening at 5pm.

Why make my own homemade ranch seasoning?

I won’t always make my own ranch dressing, I’m sure, but when I can choose a healthier, homemade option, I will take it. And what I’ve found since making my own dry ranch seasoning is that it tastes the same, if not better! Not kidding.

Perhaps it tastes better because it’s missing all the added preservatives, additives, and MSG. Or maybe because I made it myself and that makes me a little bit proud to serve my family for dinner. 

Easy Homemade Ranch Seasoning Recipe

Okay, so it’s 6 ingredients if you could the salt and pepper but come on– You’ve already got that in your kitchen so it’s not a featured ingredient here!

Ingredients:

3 teaspoons fine sea salt

1 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

3 tablespoons garlic powder

3 tablespoons onion powder

3 tablespoons dill weed

5 tablespoons dried parsley

Instructions:

Measure out and mix all ingredients together in a small jar or container. Shake well before use.

Using 3 tablespoons of homemade ranch seasoning mixture is about the equivalent of a 1 ounce packet. The internet has given mixed answers and I’ve yet to check an actual packet of ranch at the store.

Use this to make homemade ranch dressing, ranch potato soup, and creamy ranch chicken in a skillet, or any other dish that calls for the deliciousness that is RANCH.

Where Can You Find The Ingredients?

Most of these easy homemade ranch seasoning recipe ingredients are found right in your pantry now. If not, a quick trip to the grocery store and you can find everything you need that will yield you much more than a packet of dry ranch.

Bonus: it’s much cleaner and healthier. There aren’t any unnecessarily added ingredients like MSG. I like to find organic spices when I can but if they are out, I get what I can get and don’t throw a fit.

We live in a rural area where the nearest grocery store (and there’s only one) is 10 miles away, the next is 18 miles away. Often times they are out of ingredients I need for a specific recipe. What can we expect when one town has one grocery store that serves approximately 5 area towns? All the more reason for me to add homemade recipes to my cooking whenever I can.

Don’t be surprised if I start dehydrating onions and garlic to make my own powders. I hear it’s really easy. Just a few extra steps a lot of people don’t want to take because it’s much easier to just go buy them from the store. I’ve been there too. Some days I still am! A work in progress, for sure. When I’m prepared to share those how-tos with you, I certainly will.

Update:

I have dehydrated my own onions and garlic and turned them into powders. Garlic was a powder but the onions were sweet vidalia onions which, I assume, due to the high sugar content in this onions, made it more like onion flakes than powder.

How Long Will Homemade Ranch Seasoning Last?

Since you’re taking the same ingredients out of your spice cabinet to make this easy homemade ranch seasoning recipe, as long as you store it in an air tight container such as a recycled washed and dried glass spice container as pictured, this ranch seasoning should last in cool, dry, and dark place like your spice cabinet for a while.

Depending on the age of the herbs you used, your seasoning could last a few months up to a year.

Of course, best results are going to be when you use it sooner.

You can always reduce the recipe by half to get about exactly what you’d need for a fresh jar of ranch salad dressing and some for a pot of ranch potato soup. Soup and salad, anyone?

Try this Easy Homemade Ranch Seasoning Recipe in these dishes:

Creamy Ranch Chicken Dinner

Ranch Potato Soup

Ranch Salad Dressing

Where can I get spice jars?

Glass spice jars with lids

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Tell me in the comments how you like to use homemade ranch seasoning. I’d love to hear how you do!