This creamy dill salad dressing is a light, refreshing creamy sauce with cucumber, fresh dill, and lemon. So easy and tasty with so many uses - it's a sauce, dip, and salad dressing in one! Use it on seafood, chicken, pork, and as a dip for chips and vegetables.
You'll Love This Dill Sauce Recipe
"It's a sauce, dressing, and dip combined! If you are looking for a delicious salad dressing with dill, this is it! It's easy to throw together and tastes absolutely delicious. I often use this as a sauce for seafood and salmon or crab cakes and as a dip for veggies. Yum." 🙂 -Kori
Super Easy to Make
Making your own homemade salad dressing is so satisfying - not only is it so much tastier and fresher, but you can feel really good about serving this to your family.
There are 12 simple ingredients in this recipe (including salt and pepper). You basically throw everything in a bowl or a lidded jar and mix it up. I love to refrigerate it for a bit to allow the flavors to blend, but you don't have to.
So Much Flavor
This healthy dill dressing recipe has so much flavor! I love the combination of the cool cucumber and the creamy lemon dill flavor of the dressing.
Healthy Sugar Free Salad Dressing
This is a keto, gluten-free, sugar-free, and low-carb dill dressing recipe. So, on top of being easy, it's also quite healthy. There is no skimping on taste, so no one will know it's healthy. Perfect!
How To Use Dill Dressing
It's a sauce, a salad dressing, and a dip. Need easy serving suggestions? Here are some ways that you can serve your dill sauce:
- It makes a great sauce for chicken, turkey, pork, and seafood! Try our air fryer crab cake recipe and use this dill dressing on the side - SO DANG GOOD!
- Dill dressing for salad - one of my favorite ways to serve this.
- Dip for raw vegetables and chips - get the full list of keto vegetables here
Dill Dressing Recipe Ingredients
Here are the ingredients you'll need to make this recipe:
- Mayonnaise - I always use a good quality avocado oil mayonnaise.
- Sour Cream - use full-fat sour cream unless you are following a low-fat diet.
- Cucumber - I love the freshness of the diced cucumber in this recipe.
- Red Onion - red onion has the best flavor in this salad dressing, but use what you've got if needed.
- Dill - I used fresh dill, but you could substitute dried. The ratio is 1 teaspoon of dried for every 1 tablespoon of fresh.
- Chives - As with the dill, I used fresh, but you could also use dried.
- Lemon Juice - fresh lemon juice is always best but if you've only got bottled, go for it. It will still taste good!
- Garlic - fresh minced
- Kosher Salt or Sea Salt
- Ground Black Pepper
How to Make Dill Sauce
Here's how to make this dressing - it's VERY EASY!!
- Add all ingredients to a bowl or a lidded jar.
- Whisk or shake until blended.
- Refrigerate the dressing for 1 to 2 hours to allow the flavors to blend.
- Adjust salt and pepper to taste, and serve.
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Substitutions and Variations
There are several ways you can vary or make substitutions to this creamy dill salad dressing:
- Play around with different types of herbs. I recommend using dill and chives, but you can add additional herbs like parsley or other favorites to change it up.
- Give it a spicy kick with a little hot sauce.
- Substitute shallots, green onion, yellow, or sweet onion for the red onion.
Top Tips
- For the best flavor, use fresh herbs, but in a pinch, you can substitute dried. (1 teaspoon of dried = 1 tablespoon fresh)
- If you prefer a smooth dressing (no diced onion or cucumber chunks, use a blender or food processor to process until your dressing is blended and smooth).
- If the dressing is too thick for your liking, you can dilute it with milk, cream, or almond milk.
- Save time and use a jar with a lid to mix and store your dressing.
- Adjust salt and pepper to your liking.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
- This recipe serves 12. If you don't need that many servings, feel free to half the recipe.
Creamy Dill Sauce FAQ's
Store in an air-tight pourable container with a tight lid that you can use to shake the dressing before serving.
While there are many recipes and bottled versions out there, this dill sauce recipe is made of mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon juice, cucumbers, red onion, garlic, fresh dill, fresh chives, salt, and pepper.
How long your homemade dill dressing will keep depends on what you have added to. Because this recipe uses fresh onion and cucumbers, it will keep up to 1 week.
This creamy dill dressing recipe is gluten-free, but other recipes and store-bought bottled dressing may contain gluten. Always check the bottle to make sure!
This is a keto-friendly salad dressing with only 1.4 carbs in total and 8.2 grams of fat. Using this dill dressing for salmon or other seafood as a topping for chicken and pork, you can add extra flavor and the healthy fat you need for the day.
The carb content of salad dressing can vary wildly, but this recipe only contains 1.4 g carbs, 0.1 g dietary fiber, and 1.3 g net carbs - per 2 tablespoons.
Yes, this dill salad dressing can easily be made ahead. Store it in an airtight jar that you can use for serving as well.
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📖 The recipe.
Creamy Dill Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup sour cream
- ⅓ cup cucumber (peeled and finely diced)
- 2 tablespoons red onion (finely chopped)
- 2 tablespoons fresh dill (finely chopped)
- 1 tablespoon fresh chives (finely chopped)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice plus the zest of ½ lemon
- 1 teaspoon garlic (minced)
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt or sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a small bowl and whisk together until blended.
- Transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate 2 hours to allow flavors to blend.
Kori's Tips
- Don't miss all of our helpful hints, substitution ideas, cooking tips, and other delicious recipes that can be found in our post. Check it out!
- Save time and use a jar with a lid to mix and store your dressing.
- Adjust salt and pepper to your liking.
- Dressing too thick? Mix a little milk, cream, or almond milk to dilute.
- Don't like the diced cucumber and onion chunks, feel free to blend to your desired consistency
- Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
- If 12 serving is too much, you can easily halve this recipe. Enjoy!
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More Healthy Salad Dressings
Here are a few more healthy salad dressings you might like! All are easy and healthy, sugar-free, gluten-free, low carb, and keto.
- Catalina French Dressing
- Low Carb Keto Italian Dressing Recipe
- Blue Cheese Dressing
- Thousand Island Dressing
- Avocado Dressing
- Tzatziki Sauce
Anne
Thank you so much for this easy and delicious recipe! My garden is overflowing with cucumbers, and this gave me another salad option to add to my weekly menu. I've made this twice, first time I followed the recipe by chopping everything up, but today I was short on time so I just dumped it all into my food processor using the "chop" setting, and it came out just as delicious as the first time. This dressing keeps very well in the fridge, my first batch was in there for over a week, and it tasted just as fresh (closed tightly in a mason jar).
Kori
Thank you!!! Best compliment ever! 🙂 So happy you love this dressing. It's one of my absolute favorites. I LOVE your tip about just dumping it all in the food processor. It would be a time saver and would blend everything perfectly.