Making homemade blue cheese is easier than you might think, and the rich, tangy flavor far surpasses anything you’ll find at the store. This creamy cheese is perfect for elevating a classic steakhouse wedge salad or adding bold flavor to your favorite classic buffalo wings, bringing a fresh, gourmet touch to your meals.
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🍶 The Ingredients
The simple, everyday ingredients in this homemade dressing blend perfectly to create a rich and irresistible flavor that’s anything but ordinary. Find ingredient notes (including substitutions and variations) below.
👉 Substitutions and Variations
- Cheese – We highly recommend starting with a top-notch block of blue cheese. Pre-crumbled cheese includes anti-caking additives and doesn’t yield as creamy a dressing. However, pre-crumbled can be used in a pinch. Gorgonzola is a great substitute.
- Mayonnaise – Homemade mayonnaise is wonderful, but a quality store-bought variety is great.
- Sour cream – We don’t recommend low-fat sour cream, but it can be used, if desired. Plain Greek yogurt is a fine substitution.
- Flavor enhancers – Fresh garlic and onion impart a subtle flavor, but garlic powder (1 teaspoon) and onion powder (1 teaspoon) can be used as substitutes. Champagne vinegar, distilled white vinegar, or apple cider vinegar can be used as substitutes for white wine vinegar.
Refer to the recipe card (with video) below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
👩🏼🍳 How to Make Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
- Step 1: Add the mayonnaise, sour cream, and buttermilk to a bowl.
- Step 2: Next, add the lemon juice, vinegar, garlic, salt, pepper, and parsley.
- Step 3: Use your fingers to crumble the blue cheese into the bowl.
- Step 4: Use a fork to stir and flatten some of the blue cheese
- Step 5: Transfer to a jar and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Step 6: Serve chilled with your favorite salad or as a dipping sauce.
🙋🏽♂️Frequently Asked Questions
Here are our favorites: Stilton, Maytag, Gorgonzola, and Cabrales.
The dressing will stay deliciously fresh in your refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. You can freeze for up to 2 months.
Of course! You won’t get the same luxurious taste, but you can substitute non-fat Greek yogurt for the mayonnaise and even the sour cream.
Our homemade mayo contains raw eggs. Therefore, very young children, the elderly, and anyone with a compromised immune system should take caution before consuming. Consult your doctor if you’re unsure.
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Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing
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Ingredients
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup sour cream
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- lemon juice juice of ½ a lemon
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- ¼ cup onion finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- ¼ cup Italian parsley finely chopped
- Pinch Salt and pepper each
- 4 oz blue cheese use block, not pre-crumbled
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients, except the blue cheese, into a medium-sized bowl.1 cup mayonnaise, ½ cup sour cream, ¼ cup buttermilk, lemon juice, 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar, ¼ cup onion, 2 cloves garlic, ¼ cup Italian parsley, Pinch Salt and pepper
- Use your hands to crumble the blue cheese into the mixture.4 oz blue cheese
- Use a fork to stir until mixed. Flatten some of the cheese with the fork against the side of the bowl.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
Notes
Nutrition
POST UPDATE NOTE: This recipe was originally published in January 2014, but was updated with recipe improvements, new photography, and awesome video in September 2019.
Donna says
It’s 2025 and I’m just now making your blue cheese dressing recipe. Thank goodness I got your post titled “Forget the Reservation…Bring the Steakhouse Home” Just a glance at the gorgeous wedge salad and I had to have it!!! OMG. I’ll be enjoying a wedge with your fabulous blue cheese dressing tonight, and probably the next 3 nights! It’s in the frig and already calling for me. Love you guys!!!
Kris Longwell says
Yay!! We are so happy you made the blue cheese dressing! We make that dressing constantly…especially during the warm months, for some reason! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Keep us posted!
Dede says
This is the BEST dressing I have ever made!
Kris Longwell says
Hi Dede! We are so happy you made the blue cheese dressing and loved it! That is our favorite dressing to make, too! So flavorful! If you like wings…the dressing is the bomb as a dipping sauce!
Linda says
I’m condused…in the what you need ingredients you don’t mention onion… but in the video you show using onion and in the recipe ingredients you list onion….
but in this reply you wrote you say you don’t use onion ….Hi there! Thanks so much. Which recipe with onion are you referring to? We don’t include onion in our blue cheese dressing recipe, so we’re a little confused as to which recipe you’re asking about. Let us know and we’ll gladly let you know!! Thanks!! Best, Kris & Wesley
So is there onion or is there not?…because the rest sounds so good…???
Kris Longwell says
Hi Linda! We really made things confusing with the onions, didn’t we!! We DO use 1/4 cup of finely chopped onion in the recipe. Our previous comment was partly right and partly wrong, what confused us was she was asking about soaking the onions in red wine vinegar, which is what we do for our tuna salad and not mentioned anywhere with the blue cheese dressing recipe. We erroneously replied and said there are no onions in the recipe. I’m going to delete that comment response now. And in the body of the post, in ingredients needed, we group the fresh parsley, onion and garlic into one bullet point. But, obviously, that wasn’t very clear! We’ll separate those out, too. So sorry for the confusion, we try to help make steps clear and simple to understand, and we didn’t do such a good job on this one. But, we’ll get it fixed. And we do feel this dressing is excellent. We hope you give it a try and let us know what you think!
Catherine says
But there IS onion in your blue cheese dressing recipe! One quarter cup.
desire crittenden says
on the onion did you just drain the vinegar from the onion?before stick in salad sounds so yummy
You guys are so pleasently entertaining i do enjoy your videos
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krislongwell says
Hi there! Thanks so much. Which recipe with onion are you referring to? We don’t soak the onions in vinegar in our blue cheese dressing recipe, so we’re a little confused as to which recipe you’re asking about. Let us know and we’ll gladly let you know!! Thanks!! Best, Kris & Wesley