what should I put ranch seasoning on?

Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 49 points –

I bought a big thing of hidden valley ranch powder on a whim and I'm looking for suggestions

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I mix it with plain greek yoghurt to create ranch dip.

Or sour cream. Then slam that on everything. But mostly potatoes. And dip all other veggies in it.

My SO taught me about this, and it became the perfect way to ween me off of my unhealthy ranch addiction. Making my own was so much healthier than whatever they put in ranch "sauce"

Nice TRY Hidden Vally Ranch marketing intern!

You’ll have to pry my top secret recipe for HVR jello from my cold dead fingers…

I'm en route to your house to try the worst sounding recipe I've ever read

Edit: I've thought about it for 2 minutes and now I actually just want to try that

Oh, at first I thought you were suggesting to try it on an intern and I thought what a great idea. If you can get an intern to cooperate, it'd be like the new jello shots. For a brief moment you were a genius, but sadly, not any more.

Mix it into ground beef for some burger patties. The taste comes through a bit, which is great, but the real perk is for some reason it makes it ridiculously juicy.

Popcorn. Tortilla chips. And I want to say Triscuits, but I have no experience with that. Or the chips.

Bread sticks. Brush with melted butter. Dust with ranch powder.

Bacon. Dust immediately after it finishes cooking. Eat as is or do things with the bacon (burgers, sandwiches, pizza)

French fries. (Edit: call them 'franch fries'!)

Sautéed mushrooms, or green beans.

I feel like you could start a series of posts: "[food item], 10/10 with ranch"

Buttered popcorn

Some of my favorite popcorn seasoning:

  • Taco seasoning + powdered cheese
    • both individually and combined
  • garam masala
  • curry powder
  • nutritional yeast

I have tried none of these one popcorn, and have never had nutritional yeast

Put it in fried chicken dredge. Or just on chicken that will be baked. Shit's super good on those.

Add it to sour cream and just have ranch dressing chip dip.

Similarly, ranch powdered baked pork chops are super delicious. Get the thin sliced ones if you can find them

Chex mix. Add a little oil and spread it out on a baking sheet. Toss in the oven for a little bit to really get it in there.

Mix it in a jar of pickles. Let sit for 24 hours. Enjoy.

Put ranch on some ranch and make ranch ^ranch

Coat some raw chicken wings with it then air fry the suckers. Makes an amazing wing.

Use it as a salt replacement. I’m pretty sure it contains MSG.

Ranch is just unreasonably good. I just had some ranch ::: spoiler food reference dressing with chicken nuggies and crystal hot sauce ::: for dinner and it was so good.

Chicken breasts. Rub the powder into the meat then fry them in a skillet with oil and/or butter.

If you have stale bread, throw it in the freezer until you've got a bunch, then chop it up, toss it in melted butter and hidden valley ranch powder, and then bake them. World-class croutons.

French fries, pizza, tat or tots, a window, and a burger.

Make some Alabama firecrackers! The recipes for them look pretty strange where you are just drowning saltines in seasoning and oil but it really good

Twist pasta with some fake crab and mayo.

I tried it once to see what Americans were fussing about constantly on TV etc, I wasn't very impressed with it. Its Basically a overpriced version of a cheap salad cream with chives from what I could gauge.

Was the Newmans brand I bought, not saying it's awful but to me I'd go thousand Island over Ranch any single day of the week.

Hidden Valley Ranch is the only ranch.

If you've tried anything else you haven't tried ranch dressing.

Bottled ranch dressing from the store is never good in my experience (even the bottled hidden valley ranch). You need ranch from a restaurant (which can be hit or miss depending on the place) or make the ranch at home. You need hidden valley ranch powder, buttermilk, mayo, and sour cream.