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This creamy green goddess ranch dressing is loaded with fresh dill, parsley, and herbs: a copycat of Sweetgreen’s fan-favorite sauce that’s ready in 5 minutes! Drizzle it on bowls, salads, or use it as a dip for roasted vegetables.
Here’s a green sauce that’s about to become your new favorite: I know, because it’s mine! In the past few years I’ve become obsessed with the Green Goddess Ranch sauce at the popular bowl-meal restaurant Sweetgreen. After eating it recently, I decided: this sauce is too good not to figure out how to make a version myself!
After recipe testing, I found the secret: generous handfuls of fresh dill, parsley, and dried tarragon, blended right into a Greek yogurt and mayo base. After one spoonful, I declared it my new favorite green sauce: it’s creamy, herby, and each bite tastes irresistible. It’s great for dipping vegetables or drizzling on salads or bowl meals through the week!
Why I Think You’ll Love This Green Goddess Ranch
My classic Green Goddess dressing recipe is based on herbs like tarragon and chives, and my classic homemade ranch dressing is buttermilk-based. My popular ranch dip has a Greek yogurt base.
This recipe is like a combination of the three: it’s creamy like ranch, herby like green goddess. The Greek yogurt lightens it quite a bit, and the mayo brings in a ranch-like richness. It truly is a sauce that works on everything!
Ingredients You’ll Need
In my research, I actually found Sweetgreen’s recipe for their Green Goddess ranch. It uses a load of mayonnaise, but I’m the queen of balancing mayo with Greek yogurt (I do this in many of my sauce and healthy dip recipes). So I added some of that and voila: this sauce was born. Here’s what you’ll need:
- Fresh dill: This is the key ingredient that gives the sauce its distinctive flavor: do not skip it!
- Fresh parsley: Use the leaves and tender stems: tear off a few handfuls and add to a measuring cup. It doesn’t have to be perfect!
- Dried tarragon: This seasoning adds a delicious complexity: it’s also worth seeking out (and is a nod to a traditional Green Goddess dressing).
- Greek yogurt: Full-fat yogurt gives the creamiest result, and adds a lightness and tang to the dressing.
- Mayonnaise: This adds richness and helps the dressing stick to vegetables: it’s also required! A sauce with all Greek yogurt is more watery and less of a dressing.
- Shallot + garlic: A small amount of each is key for adding savory flavor.
- White wine vinegar: This adds a brightness to the flavor.
Tips for Making Green Goddess Ranch Dressing
Here are a few things to keep in mind for this dressing:
- Use a food processor. A food processor is easiest for blending and you can throw in the shallot and garlic and chop them up first. You can also use a small blender, but I would mince the garlic and shallot by hand first. It will not work in a large blender because the quantity is not large enough.
- Resist the urge to over blend. The sauce should turn a gorgeous pale green and have some nice herb chunks in it. Over-blending is more risky if you’re using a small blender, where the sauce can become runny if you blend too long.
- Adjust seasoning as desired. Add another pinch of salt if necessary to bring out the flavor.
Ways to Use This Dressing
Once you have a jar of this in the fridge, you’re set for meal prep! Here are my favorite ways to use this sauce:
- Drizzle over grain bowls. I love building a bowl with a protein, rice, roasted sweet potatoes, mixed greens, pickled red onions, and sliced avocado. Try my Chicken Rice Bowl or swap in baked tofu for vegan variation.
- Dip for roasted vegetables. Roasted broccoli or carrot fries dipped into this sauce are fantastic.
- Salad dressing. Toss it with a simple green salad, or use it as the dressing in a power bowl.
- Sandwich spread. Slather it on a veggie wrap or even Caprese sandwich.
- Raw veggie dip. It’s thick enough to work as a dip too: just add carrots, celery and bell pepper slices!
Build a Bowl Around It
Here are a few bowl concepts that would work well with this dressing:
- Chicken Rice Bowl (coming soon!)
- Easy Rice Bowls
- Veggie Power Bowls
- Greek Chicken Bowls
- Mediterranean Rice Bowls
- Shrimp Bowls
- Salmon Rice Crunch Bowls
- Tofu Bowls
- Salad Meal Prep Bowls
Storage Instructions
This dressing stores well refrigerated airtight for up to 1 week. Give it a stir before using: it may thicken slightly as it sits, which is normal.
Dietary Notes
This Green Goddess ranch is vegetarian and gluten-free. For dairy-free or vegan, substitute vegan mayonnaise and a plain vegan coconut yogurt (I like the brand Cocojune).
Green Goddess Ranch (Sweetgreen Copycat!)
This creamy green goddess ranch dressing is loaded with fresh dill, parsley, and herbs: a copycat of Sweetgreen’s fan-favorite sauce that’s ready in 5 minutes! Drizzle it on bowls, salads, or use it as a dip for roasted vegetables.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: About 1 cup 1x
- Category: Sauce
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten-Free, Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 1 very small garlic clove
- ½ shallot, sliced
- ½ cup Greek yogurt (see Notes)
- ¾ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup fresh parsley leaves and tender stems, loosely packed
- ¼ cup fresh dill, torn
- ½ tablespoon white wine vinegar
- ¼ tsp dried tarragon
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 pinch sugar
- Fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
- Add the garlic and shallot to a food processor (see Notes) and blend.
- Add the remaining ingredients and blend until creamy. Taste and add another pinch of salt if necessary. Transfer to an airtight container; the dressing stores in the refrigerator for 1 week.
Notes
- Blender variation: You can also use a small blender to make this sauce. Mince the garlic and shallot first, then blend everything until creamy: making sure not to over blend. It will not work in a large blender because the quantity of ingredients is not large enough.
- Vegan / dairy-free variation: Use vegan mayonnaise and a thick plain vegan coconut yogurt. I like the brand Cocojune.
