Nearly Instant (copycat bloomin') Onion Ring Dipping Sauce

[azurelunatic]

Face it, a lot of recipes that start with "half a cup of mayonnaise and at least two teaspoons of garlic powder" can probably usefully replace the mayo and spices with a good whack of ranch dressing.

Benefit: fewer things to mix, flavors already melded
Drawback: you can't subtract things from the ranch, which could be a problem if you're working with a lot of allergies, and ranch is definitely dairy whereas mayo is, like, eggs and shit.

To that end, please behold my nearly instant onion ring sauce.

Good whack of ranch
About a tenth that much ketchup
A quarter or less the amount of ketchup in creamy horseradish sauce, according to taste -- err on the side of less, stir it up, and test it, before adding more than you really want.

Lacks the beauty and control of more involved recipes.
Is dead simple to put together when you've just hauled a tray of fried delicacies out of the oven.

Comments

[momijizukamori]

ooooh noting this for later

(peppercorn ranch is also a great mayo replacement on BLTs - I tried it once in an act of desperation because we had no mayo and I didn't want to go out, but the additional flavor and in particular the pepper is great with tomato)