3\/4 C. buttermilk
\n1\/3 C. fat-free mayonnaise
\n1\/2 tsp. minced garlic
\n1\/4 C. crumbled blue cheese
\n2 T. fat-free cottage cheese<\/p>\n
Combine the buttermilk, mayonnaise, garlic, and blue cheese in a blender and blend until smooth. Transfer to a medium bowl and stir in the cottage cheese. Chill, covered, until ready to serve.<\/p>\n
Makes 1 1\/2 C.
\nEach 2-T. serving contains approximately:
\nCalories:30
\nFat: 1 g<\/p>\n
Notes: I used reduced fat buttermilk, but the nutritional information is for regular buttermilk as the recipe lists. The dressing starts out very thick and creamy, but not as tasty because the garlic and blue cheese hasn’t infused the cottage cheese. But this dressing gets thinner the longer it sits in the fridge. It ends up being almost like water (with the cheese chunks in it). This might be because I used low fat buttermilk and not quite fat free mayo – I don’t know if that happens if you follow the recipe exactly. Regardless, even when thin, this dressing tastes great. I just use a bowl and toss my salad well to coat everything.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You can use any blue cheese in this recipe. Or you can substitute goat cheese or aged Cheddar for a totally different flavor range. Blending the blue cheese into the other ingredients in this dressing infuses its flavor throughout the mixture. Stirring the cottage cheese, rather than blending it, provides texture. Also, the lumps of the cottage cheese absorb the flavor and make it seem as if there is more of the higher-fat blue cheese included than there actually is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condiments-extras","category-salads-dressings","tag-spa-cuisine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19368,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/19368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}