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Healthy Greek Yogurt Blue Cheese Dip has the creaminess and the sharp flavor you love, but it is lighter than the usual bottled dips or dressings. You only need six ingredients and a few minutes and you’ll be ready to dip your veggies. Or thin it out just a bit and it doubles as one of my favorite delicious easy gluten-free salad dressing recipes.
Originally published on April 16, 2012. Post and photos updated on February 6, 2016.
A Healthier Blue Cheese Dip with Greek Yogurt
I LOVE blue cheese. There aren’t many things that aren’t made better by adding blue cheese. Grilled chicken salad or Strawberry, Bacon & Blue Cheese Wedge Salad, a black and blue steak, pizza, sandwiches, and even hot dogs. I could go on and on.
But blue cheese dressing, well, yes, in concept, I love it. But most brands of blue cheese salad dressing in a bottle have these little, tiny granules of blue cheese which are totally not satisfying when you are craving that tangy flavor that you only get from nice, big crumbles. And let’s not even talk about all the preservatives and other ingredients that you can’t pronounce.
If you go to a restaurant that makes their own salad dressings, their versions are usually pretty darn delicious. But they, along with most recipes you’ll find, are loaded with lots of mayo or heavy cream or oil. Obviously, it’s perfectly fine to have on occasion, but not something I want to douse my salad with or dunk my veggies into on a daily basis.
And since I could practically eat it by the spoonful every day, I knew I had to come up with my own version – chunkier than the bottled stuff, lighter than the other homemade stuff, and definitely healthier and more protein-packed than both.
So I went to my old standby – Greek yogurt.
Ingredients
- Plain Greek yogurt: I usually use nonfat to keep it light, but you can use whole milk yogurt to make a keto blue cheese dressing.
- Apple cider vinegar
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Dry mustard
- Cayenne pepper: Just a pinch gives these dressing a little zip, but you can omit it.
- Crumbled blue cheese
How to Make Greek Yogurt Blue Cheese Dressing or Dip
All you need to do is stir together your Greek yogurt with all of the other ingredients except the blue cheese until it is smooth. Then gently stir in the blue cheese so it doesn’t break up too much.
This is thick enough to be a great dip for veggies, but it is equally yummy as a salad dressing. I like this consistency for spooning over a nice wedge salad, but you can always add a little more olive oil and/or apple cider vinegar to thin it out if you prefer.
Serving Suggestions
You can use it for veggie platters, wings, salads like this Strawberry Wedge Salad, and to cool off your favorite kicked up dishes.
- Buffalo Cauliflower Tots
- Healthier Buffalo Chicken Sloppy Joes
- Buffalo Chicken Spring Rolls
- Glazed Buffalo Chicken Tenders
- Buffalo Chicken Tacos from Shugary Sweets
- Buffalo Chicken Bake from The Pinning Mama
Greek Yogurt Blue Cheese Dip or Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 1/2 Tbl apple cider vinegar
- 1 Tbl olive oil
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp dry mustard
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
Instructions
- Combine all of the ingredients except the blue cheese in a bowl, and stir until well-mixed.
- Gently stir in the blue cheese, so that you don’t completely break up the nice, large chunks.
- Use for dipping veggies or put on top of a salad, on a sandwich, in a wrap…
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Enjoy!
Sounds good…except….anyone think of adding dash of sweetener?
I suppose you could, but I’ve never found it necessary.
What are the nutritional facts? For the dressing? Calories per serving please?
Kathleen, the recipe has been updated with the nutritional information. Thank you for your patience!
Just made this dressing. I didn’t have any cayenne pepper but OMG, it is soooo good! I love blue cheese dressing, when I am at a restaurant I always ask for extra dressing because there is no such thing as too much. Bottled dressings are never as good as restaurant dressings. Excited that I found a recipe that’s as good as any restaurant AND it’s also healthy since it’s yogurt. Yummiest ever!
Thank you for the nice compliment, and we’re so glad that you enjoyed the dressing, Robin!
Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipe with us at Merry Monday. YUM! i want some!
My husband will love htis dip! Thanks for linking up to Merry Monday! Sharing on Twitter! Have a great week!
Kim
Thanks for mentioning me! I’m with you girl! Blue cheese is magical and I would totally slather this all over my chicken bake! Pinning!
I find this somewhat bland, it’s missing something for sure, gonna try an adaptation next time
Hmm, I do make it sometimes with balsamic instead of apple cider vinegar. Hope you can tweak it to your tastes. Maybe some more dry mustard, or some dijon instead.
i googled your recipe over the weekend and adapted it for my purposes. thx. it worked great. It will be a post later tonight. here’s my link – http://chefpeterskitchen.blogspot.com/2012/09/blue-cheese-dressing-using-greek-yogurt.html
Sorry for the super-late reply. Blog went on hold unexpectedly for awhile! So happy that you found the recipe and made it fit your tastes. I make it all the time!
I hate blue cheese by itself, but oh man, I LOVE it in dip or dressing. Would it be weird to dip pears in this? Because I totally want to. 😀
I heard that giving up citrus fruit can help clear your skin, so I tried that. Luckily, it didn’t work because I love lemon!
I don’t think pears is weird at all! I put it on a salad with apples. Hmm, this sounds like I could make a spin on one of my favorite salads, using this dressing with pears and candied walnuts!
This is the best idea I’ve seen lately 🙂
I am a big blue cheese fan! But the storebought dressings freak me out—all that nasty stuff they add. Greek yogurt sounds like the perfect delivery system!
Lisa, you are too sweet! I used to have a lot of storebought dressings, then switched to olive oil and balsamic vinegar because I didn’t like all of the junk in the bottles ones, but lately I have enjoyed making some homemade dressings. I love this because I can have nice, bug chunks of blue cheese.