Homemade blue cheese salad dressing with chunks of blue cheese
Blue Cheese Salad dressing is one of my favorites. I’ll be totally honest, I don’t always make my own salad dressing. I tend to keep an assortment of different dressings in my fridge. It’s really a matter of convenience – and providing everyone’s favorite dressing.
Making salad dressing isn’t hard. I am making an effort to make dressing more often and buy less prepared dressing.
A few months ago we attended a local fundraiser auction for a youth sports team. My mom bid on a wheel of locally made blue cheese. We were so excited when she won the bid!
I don’t think any of us really realized how much cheese is in a 6 pound wheel of cheese. That’s a whole lot of blue cheese especially since when using blue cheese, a little goes a long way.
We sliced up the wheel, packaged it in smaller 4 ounce portions and vacuum sealed each portion into freezer safe bags. We quickly discovered that my siblings and their families either love blue cheese or hate it. I love it! More for me!!!
Those of us that love it took several packages home with us. I put one package in the fridge and froze the rest. When I need more blue cheese, I’ll just pull a package out of the freezer, let it thaw and then use.
Homemade blue cheese salad dressing with chunks of blue cheese.
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice fresh squeezed
- 1/2 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup blue cheese
In a food processor place mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, salt and pepper and worcestershire sauce.
Puree until combined
Add 1/4 cup of blue cheese. Pulse until incorporated.
Remove dressing into a bowl. Add remaining 1/4 cup of blue cheese crumbles. Stir into dressing.
Cover and refrigerate until needed.
If dressing becomes too thick, thin with a small amount of milk.Â
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20 Comments
Gala in the kitchen
January 30, 2018 at 4:35 pmGreat to learn we can freeze blue cheese. We love blue cheese dressing! I am going to try your recipe. Thank you for sharing, Kathy!
Miriam - londonkitchendiaries.com
September 28, 2017 at 4:26 amWhat a great way to use the cheese your mum won – good idea to freeze it too. I love blue cheese so this is right up my alley! Pinned!
Miriam x
Kathy
October 1, 2017 at 4:05 pmSo glad you are in the “love blue cheese” camp! 🙂
Cheyanne @ No Spoon Necessary
September 27, 2017 at 1:36 pmMaking your own salad dressings is the only way to go, right!? It’s just SO much better than the store bought kind! My mother LOVES blue cheese dressing and she has been making a recipe of it I gave her a long time ago, but I’m going to have to send her this link! Your’s looks JUST PERFECT!!! Cheers!
Kathy
September 27, 2017 at 7:07 pmYou are so right! It is so much better than store bought salad dressing! I love making my own!
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September 27, 2017 at 5:56 amI love making my own salad dressings! There is just something about it that is very satisfying! haha This looks wonderful! My husband loves blue cheese and would definitely love this!
Kathy
September 27, 2017 at 7:06 pmYou’d better go out and buy a huge old wheel of blue cheese!
Adina
September 26, 2017 at 11:52 pmThat sounds like me: getting 6 pounds of cheese in one go and then freezing it. 🙂 I do that with Parmesan, it is really worth it, I pay only half or so if I buy 6 pounds of it… I love blue cheese, but I don’t think I have ever used it for dressing, I should definitely give this recipe a try.
Kathy
September 27, 2017 at 7:06 pmI’m stocked up with blue cheese for quite some time now! I’ll be making lots of blue cheese salad dressing.
Ashika |Gardening Foodie
September 26, 2017 at 2:04 pmOh I love your blue cheese dressing. I am such a fan of blue cheese but have not used it in a dressing before. This looks like a great recipe and I cannot wait to try it!
Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe!
Kathy
September 26, 2017 at 7:51 pmIf you love blue cheese, you will love it in a dressing! 🙂
Nicoletta @sugarlovespices
September 26, 2017 at 6:46 amLucky your mom! It’s so true about blue cheese, or you love it or you hate it. I love it!! I am not used to having any dressings in my salad other than evo oil and salt, but I’m pretty sure I’d love this blue cheese dressing!!
Kathy
September 26, 2017 at 7:28 amThis dressing can also be used as a dip!
Mary Ann | The Beach House Kitchen
September 25, 2017 at 6:33 pmNice wheel of cheese Kathy! Woohoo! I love, love, love blue cheese Kathy! Pinning this one, and can’t wait to try!
Kathy
September 26, 2017 at 5:47 amIsn’t it amazing! It was like we won the lottery…in cheese! 🙂
Sues
September 25, 2017 at 6:13 pmI love that your mom bid on a wheel of cheese and won!! I never considered freezing cheese, but totally need to try that in the future. This dressing looks so yummy!
Kathy
September 26, 2017 at 5:46 amShredded parmesan cheese freezes well too.
Dawn - Girl Heart Food
September 25, 2017 at 8:58 amI absolutely LOVE blue cheese (and blue cheese dressing, of course). I could pretty much drink it, lol. Your recipe sounds delicious and now you have me craving blue cheese, lol 😀 P.S. Thanks for the freezing tip 😉
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September 25, 2017 at 8:33 amThat’s an impressive wheel of cheese! I’m in the love-blue-cheese camp! I recently had a salad, out, with creamy blue vs. the usual Italian with crumbles of blue….and I loved it! Your recipe sounds perfect! Pinned!
David @ Spiced
September 25, 2017 at 5:31 amHaha! 6 pound wheel of blue cheese? That sounds like my heaven! But I totally hear ya that blue cheese is a love or hate kinda thing. I used to hate it myself, but now I love it. I didn’t realize you could freeze it, though…great tip! And we often don’t make our own salad dressing, either, so I’m eager to try this version. A salad is really hard to beat…especially when it’s topped with a delicious dressing. Thanks for sharing this one! 🙂