Ranch dip is a very good dressing for salads, a fab dip for chips and veggies, good for burgers and you can eat it with almost anything just like ketchup... it is creamy and yummy!! I get the low fat or fat free cream cheese to make this dip... you can use the level of fat you want to eat. If you don't get cream cheese where you live, don't worry, hang some yogurt in a muslin cloth and let it drain completely, preferably over night... you will have a product which will resemble cream cheese very closely. The rest of the ingredients are mostly available everywhere... so make and enjoy!!
Prep time: 15 mins
Ingredients:
- Fat free cream cheese - 8ozSpring onions - 1 bunch, roughly chopped (do not use all of it, just 3/4, eliminate dark green part)
- Garlic - 1 pods (use less if you don't like)
- Yogurt - 2 tbsp
- White Vinegar - 2 tsp
- Ground Black pepper - 1/2 tsp (more if you like)
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp or 1/2 tbsp lime juice
- Salt - to taste
- Capers/kabra - 1/2 tsp (optional)
- Parsley - 1 tsp dry 2 tsp fresh
- Water - 1 to 2 tbsp to thin the dip if required.
Method:
Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and make a smooth paste of consistency of ketchup or slightly thinner.
Tips:
To give it more flavour, you can add 1 seeded jalapeno and 1 tsp dill leaves.
To make cream cheese from yogurt. Take the yogurt put it in a muslin/cheese cloth or good quality paper towels (ones which wont tear after getting wet like bounty sheets). Tie yogurt in it, place it in a filter, the ones you use filter fruit pulp or you can use a small vessel which has holes in it. The whole idea is to drain the water oozing out of yogurt into a vessel beneath it. Place this filter on the vessel, make sure it coves the mouth of the vessel, it must not fall inside it. Place tied yogurt in the filter and put this in your refrigerator. Let it drain for atleast 8 hours.
To make cream cheese from yogurt. Take the yogurt put it in a muslin/cheese cloth or good quality paper towels (ones which wont tear after getting wet like bounty sheets). Tie yogurt in it, place it in a filter, the ones you use filter fruit pulp or you can use a small vessel which has holes in it. The whole idea is to drain the water oozing out of yogurt into a vessel beneath it. Place this filter on the vessel, make sure it coves the mouth of the vessel, it must not fall inside it. Place tied yogurt in the filter and put this in your refrigerator. Let it drain for atleast 8 hours.
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