Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing

Dive in and double dip your spicy buffalo wings into this thick, creamy, funky, and luscious Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing with bold and savory flavors. Studded with bites of herbaceous green onions and flakes of cracked pepper, this dressing is at home crowning a wedge salad or next to celery on a platter of wings.

When it comes to team ranch or team blue cheese, I am firmly team blue but with the caveat it has to be homemade. It gives me complete control over the quality of ingredients starting with the blue cheese itself. With girl dinner being the new trending thing, I fully admit I can make a meal out of this blue cheese dip and a pile of crudites. It’s that good!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Make Ahead – This is one of those things that just gets better the longer it refrigerates. You can make this several days in advance before a party or make it on a weekend and use for meal prep. It lasts for a week in the refrigerator and will find its way to all of your salads.
• Customizable – This blue cheese dressing recipe is easy to adjust for texture and personal taste. Want it a little thinner? Add a splash of buttermilk or regular milk. Want a little extra kick? Add a little more hot sauce. You are in total control.
• Easy – This is totally a mix it and forget it recipe. After you make it a couple of times you will find you don’t even bother pulling out the measuring cups and spoons and just throw everything into a bowl.
• Simple Ingredients – Aside from the blue cheese itself you probably already have all of the ingredients to make this in your pantry and refrigerator. It utilizes basics like mayonnaise, sour cream, and lemon.

Ingredients

• Blue Cheese – Skip the blue cheese crumbles and pick up your favorite wedge. This is going to give you not only the best flavor but also the best texture.
• Base – A combination of sour cream and mayo make this blue cheese dip thick, decadent, and tangy.
• Acid – Lemon adds brightness that cuts through the creamy base while also waking up all of the flavors. You can also use white vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
• Scallions – This adds mild and delicate onion flavor along with freshness. For even more mild onion flavor you can also use chives.
• Flavor Enhancers – Worcestershire sauce, Dijon mustard, and a splash of hot sauce add pure savory flavor that compliments the pungent pop of blue cheese.
• Seasoning – Garlic powder adds depth and is milder than fresh garlic while dried dill gives another herbaceous note and also a nod to ranch flavors. Freshly cracked black pepper makes this already bold homemade blue cheese dressing even sassier.

How to Make Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing

• Mix together your creamy base. Add the mayo, sour cream, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon, lemon juice, hot sauce, and seasonings to a bowl and mix to combine.
• Add half of the blue cheese. Use a fork or spatula to mash some of the blue cheese into the creamy base.
• Stir in the remaining blue cheese. Add the rest of the blue cheese and the green onions and stir to combine.
• Let the homemade chunky blue cheese dip refrigerate. Allow the dressing to chill out in the refrigerator for at least two hours.
• Taste and adjust. Just before serving taste your dressing and see if it needs any additional salt. Happy dipping!

Blue Cheese Recommendations

• Point Reyes Original Blue – This is my go-to for my blue cheese recipe. This American blue cheese made in California is bold and peppery. It’s also extremely creamy.

• Roth Buttermilk Blue – This blue cheese has a creamy and tangy flavor and texture but is on the milder end of blue cheeses. This is a great one to use for those who think they’re not blue cheese fans.
• Maytag Blue Cheese – This strong, bold, and tangy blue cheese is a little lemony.
• Roth Moody Blue – Give your homemade blue cheese dressing a mysterious layer of flavor with the addition of smoke. This creamy blue cheese is smoked over fruit woods giving it a delicate smoke flavor.
• Gorgonzola – This creamy Italian style blue cheese is another great option if you’re looking for a milder blue cheese. It comes it two varieties, dolce and piccante. The dolce, or sweet gorgonzola, is only aged for two months and has a creamy texture and sweet and buttery flavor while the piccante, or spicy, is aged for three months or more. It has a sharp, pungent flavor.

Substitutions & Variations

• For a creamy blue cheese dressing, add all of your ingredients except for the green onions into a food processor and blend until smooth.
• This is like a thick steakhouse blue cheese dressing perfect for dipping and topping fat slices of tomatoes. To make this dressing thinner, add 1/4 cup of buttermilk to the base.
• Chives can be substituted for the green onions for a more delicate flavor.
• Replace the Dijon mustard with 1/8 teaspoon of dried mustard.
• For even more of a ranch flavor, skip the green onions and dried dill and use half a tablespoon each of finely chopped fresh dill, chives, and parsley.
• Give your blue cheese an extra kick of spice by adding finely chopped pickled jalapenos or a pinch of cayenne pepper.
• Use a smoked blue cheese to bring a smoky element to this dip.
• Skip the sour cream and use Greek yogurt to make this extra thick and tangy.
• For more of a neutral acid, use apple cider vinegar, white wine vinegar, or distilled vinegar.

Tips From the Beach

• Skip the tub of crumbled blue cheese. It isn’t as creamy as a wedge of blue cheese and has a powdery coating on the outside. Since blue cheese is firmly the star of this dressing go ahead and invest in your favorite.
• Hold off adding too much salt at the beginning and allow your dressing to refrigerate first. Not only is the cheese itself a little salty but the Worcestershire, Dijon, and hot sauce also have salt content.
• Don’t skip the step of smashing some of the blue cheese into the creamy base. It gives more blue cheese flavor.
• Black pepper and blue cheese just belong together. I like to add a lot, and keep the grind chunky.

Looking for the perfect wing recipe to serve with this? Check out Beer Brined Buffalo Wings and Teriyaki Buffalo Wings. And more dip ideas make sure to check out Blue Cheese Bacon Dip and Creamy Caesar Dip.

Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing

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Dive in and double dip your spicy buffalo wings into this thick, creamy, funky. and luscious Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing with bold and savory flavors. Studded with bites of herbaceous green onions and flakes of cracked pepper, this dressing is at home crowning a wedge salad or next to celery on a platter of wings.

• Author: Nicole Stover
• Prep Time: 10
• Chilling Time: 120
• Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
• Yield: 2 cups 1x
• Category: Dressing
• Method: Mixing
• Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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• 1 cup mayonnaise, Duke’s recommended
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 cup blue cheese hand crumbled, about 4 ounces
• 1 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• dash of hot sauce
• 2 tablespoons green onions, finely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon dried dill
• 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper, or more to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, or more to taste

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Instructions

1. Add the mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon, hot sauce, and seasonings to a bowl and stir to combine.
2. Crumble half of the blue cheese into the mixture. Use a fork or spatula to smash the blue cheese into the creamy mixture. 
3. Add the remaining blue cheese and green onions to the bowl and stir to combine.
4. Allow the blue cheese dressing to refrigerate for at least two hours before serving.
5. Taste for seasoning and adjust if needed. 

Notes

1. For a thinner dressing add 1/4 cup of buttermilk.
2. Keep this stored in a mason jar or airtight container and it will last for a week in the refrigerator.