Spicy BBQ Ranch Dressing or Dipping Sauce (2024)

Ditch Panera and make your own dressing with a spicy kick! Whether you use this as a dipping sauce or a salad dressing, you'll be making this dressed-up ranch over and over again!

Why You'll Love This Recipe

• This simple recipe is ready in 5 minutes or less!
• Perfect dipping sauce for chicken tenders, french fries, or onion rings!
• OR a delicious dressing for a southwest salad like my Southern BBQ Chicken Salad made from romaine lettuce, black beans, red onions, chopped chicken breasts, and more!
• I even use this homemade sauce on my BBQ Ranch Salad made with rotini pasta, green onion, smoky bacon, olives, and corn!
• Also, a great dipping sauce for vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, bell peppers, or cherry tomatoes!

Ingredient Notes

• Barbecue Sauce -I like to use sweet Baby Ray's, but you can use your favorite BBQ sauce or even homemade BBQ sauce instead.
• Ranch - I recommend only using the Hidden Valley Ranch brand. The kind made with the ranch dressing mix calls for a cup of milk instead of a cup of buttermilk. Ranch from the mix is preferred to pre-bottled.
• Smoked Paprika -don't substitute regular paprika. It's not even close to the same as the smoked kind. That natural smoke flavor in smoked paprika is unbeatable!
• White Pepper - don't substitute black pepper. They are very different, and the white pepper is where the kick in the dressing comes from.

Step by Step Instructions

• Combine ranch dressing and barbecue sauce together in a small bowl. Whisk together well.
• Add the white pepper, cumin, chili powder, smoked paprika, and garlic powder to the ranch mixture.
• Whisk together well.

• Use instead of plain ranch salad dressing or as a dipping sauce!
• Store in the fridge in an airtight container.
• It will be good for up to a month.

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