Make your salads healthier with this homemade Healthy Blue Cheese Dressing (which doubles as a dip).

Tangy, creamy and rich, you can’t go wrong with this homemade dressing. With the exception of blue cheese, this recipe uses a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. It can be whisked together in less than 5 minutes and is incredibly easy to make.

Healthy + tasty

When it comes to salad dressing, we typically gravitate toward oil and vinegar. The exception? A creamy dressing, like this one, that’s made with healthy ingredients, has no added oil and tastes even better than store-bought.

When a craving strikes for a certain type of dressing or dip, we try to make it at home because it’s almost always more economical, healthier and tastier than store-bought versions. Bottled dressings are often high in salt and sugar, made with unhealthy vegetable oils and contain preservatives and a slew of other unfamiliar ingredients. By making our own, we’re able to control the ingredients and the amounts that go into our dressing.

Why Greek yogurt?

Greek yogurt provides the perfect neutral flavor when you’re making a rich, creamy dressing without adding all the fat.

Types of blue cheese (use one that you love)

Blue cheese has a wide range of sharpness, creaminess and flavors. Keep this in mind when you’re shopping for a blue cheese. A general rule of thumb is the softer and creamier the cheese, the milder.

We love a light and creamy flavor, so we typically use Danish or Gorgonzola blue cheese in this recipe. Roquefort is one of the boldest, so unless you’re a die-hard, we wouldn’t recommend it. We recommend using the real stuff and crumbling it yourself, rather than the pre-crumbled, more processed versions.

We often get our blue cheese from the local farmers’ market or a gourmet food store (not only do they carry high quality cheeses, you can taste test them too!)

Should I let it sit in the fridge for a few hours before serving?

In short, yes! While it’s not absolutely necessary, it’ll certainly help merry the flavors.

Some ways you can use your blue cheese dressing:

• Mixed into Roasted Potato Salad or Cole Slaw
• As a veggie dip
• Served with apple slices, walnuts and grapes
• As a dip for grilled, baked or broiled chicken
• On a baked potato
• On top of a BBQ burger
• On a buffalo chicken wrap (cook chicken in the slow cooker, shred, toss in blue cheese dressing and hot sauce)
• In a chicken Quesadilla with Caramelized Onions
• On a Steak Salad
• On a Cobb Salad
• On Grilled Romaine with bacon crumbles, walnuts and apple slices
• Tossed with Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower (you can even add a little hot sauce for a healthy hot wing flavor)