This Creamy Italian Dressing is a delicious way to dress up a meal and sneak in extra protein, thanks to a secret boost from blended cottage cheese. It's rich, tangy, and perfect for drizzling over salads or using as a dip!
I especially love serving this over my Chicken Sausage Bowls!
Can't get enough of dips and sauces? Check out my Dairy Free Dressings here!
🔍 Quick Look: Creamy Italian Dressing
- ⏱️ Prep Time: 5 minutes
- 🍳 Cook Time: 1 minute of blending
- 🕒 Total Time: Less than 10 minutes!
- 👥 Servings: 12 servings of 2 Tbsp.
- 📊 Calories: ~79
- 🔥 Cook Method: No cook recipe!
- 👩🍳 Main Ingredients: Cottage cheese, mayonnaise.
- ⭐ Difficulty: Easy
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Why You'll Love this High Protein Dressing
- Super Easy: This recipe is as easy as it gets-simply put everything into a jar and blend it!
- Extra Protein: Sneak in a little extra protein with this dressing since it's not just oil based!
Ingredients Needed
- Mayonnaise-To avoid seed oils and unnecessary ingredients, I like to use this Whole30 Mayo recipe!
- Cottage Cheese-This gives you a protein boost and also helps with a nice, creamy texture! Don't let the rest of your cottage cheese go to waste, make my Ground Chicken Pizza Crust or my Autumn Squash Soup!
See the recipe card below for details!
Swaps and Variations
- The cottage cheese can be used interchangeably with ricotta cheese in this dressing. To keep a higher protein content, I recommend getting no or low fat ricotta.
- You can use white wine vinegar or even distilled white vinegar instead of the red wine vinegar if needed!
- You can use cane sugar in place of the coconut sugar, but note that it will no longer be a paleo friendly recipe!
How to Make Creamy Italian Dressing
- Step 1: Combine all of the ingredients into a jar and blend with an immersion blender. That's it!
FAQ's for Creamy Italian Dressing
Sealed tightly, this will last about 5 days in the fridge.
Regular Italian Dressing is typically more of a vinaigrette, and has a liquid consistency. Creamy Italian dressing however, has a thicker, cream like consistency. It can be less tangy and a bit more sweeter sometimes.
Yes! Ideally just swap the cottage cheese for a dairy free cottage cheese but they can be hard to find! If you can't find one, use a dairy free plain yogurt instead.
It's not recommended. Mayo-based dressings tend to separate when frozen and thawed, affecting both texture and flavor.
Suggested Serving Options
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Creamy Italian Dressing
Equipment
- 1 chef's knife
- 1 Cutting Board
- 1 Immersion Blender
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup cottage cheese non fat
- 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
- 1.5 tsp. coconut sugar
- ½ tsp. black pepper
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- 1 tbsp. Italian seasoning
- ¼ cup red onion or half a small onion
- ¼ cup fresh parsley
Instructions
- Place all of the ingredients into a mason jar and blend with an immersion blender until smooth.
Notes
- Blender style: Instead of using an immersion blender, you can place everything in a regular blender to blend it, you'll just have to occasionally scrape the sides down to make sure everything mixes in. Keep some avocado oil, ricotta, or mayonnaise on hand if you need more liquid to blend everything.
Mike says
Made this over the weekend and loved dipping my pizza in it! So good!