Creamy Avocado Ranch Dressing

Name: Creamy Avocado Ranch Dressing
Yield: Serves 12 (Makes 1 1/2 cups)
Ingredients: 1 , Hass avocado, ripe, pitted, flesh scooped from skin; 1/2 teaspoon, hot pepper sauce, such as Tabasco; 1 tablespoon, lime juice, from 1 lime; 1/2 cup, buttermilk; 1/4 cup, mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon, minced red onion; 1 tablespoon, minced fresh cilantro leaves; 1 medium clove, garlic, minced; 1/2 teaspoon, sugar; 3/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1/4 teaspoon, ground black pepper

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2005

We threw away the rulebook on vinaigrettes and used a host of unexpected ingredients.

SERVES12 (Makes 1 1/2 cups)

TIME15 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We built our salad dressing recipes around ingredients not regularly used in dressings, including apples, raisins, carrot juice, and ruby port. We balanced these ingredients with fats such as cream, buttermilk, mayonnaise, nut oils, and yog...

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