You’ll never want the bottled stuff again.

And for those people, homemade blue cheese dressing is a golden-star sauce.

Unlike bottled blue cheese dressing, the homemade variety is easy to adjust to your flavor preferences.

Southern Living Blue Cheese Dressing on a salad

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you might use your favorite blue cheese, too.

you might also adjust the consistency based on how you plan to use the dressing.

What Is Blue Cheese Dressing Made Of?

Southern Living Blue Cheese Dressing ingredients

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Serve blue cheese dressing as a dip for crudites.

Use this dressing (thinned with a little buttermilk) instead ofcoleslaw dressing.

Serve it withchicken wingsand celery.

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you could also slather this dressing on a burger or sandwich for a hit of tangy cheesiness.

Just be sure it’s in an airtight container.

As blue cheese dressing sits, the water in the sour cream can begin to separate.

Southern Living Blue Cheese Dressing ingredients in a bowl

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Just stir the dressing before you spoon it onto the salad or sandwich.

you’re able to, but the results after it’s thawed might not be great.

Ingredients

1/4cupsour cream

1/4cupmayonnaise

1/2cupcrumbled blue cheese(about 2 oz.)

Southern Living Blue Cheese Dressing stirring together the dressing

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Stir together until evenly combined.

Process until you reach your desired consistency.

Chill and store:

Keep refrigerated, in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

blue cheese salad dressing

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Caitlin Bensel; Food Styling: Torie Cox