Green Goddess Dressing with Cottage Cheese (Magic Bullet Easy)

Green goddess dressing is a dressing you can make for your food tables, that’s so easy and has greens.  It’s a dip and in the rice below.

Green goddess dressing was the name of a surprising salad dressing my mom always added to her light American cabbage dinner.

…That doesn’t sound odd by itself, except she cooked an Asian-inspired white rice with meat protein meals using chopsticks for the family dinner plates.

I was always curious what was in the store-bought dressing she used, that  turned me off… the green veggie color was scary to a kid. And for some adults (that don’t like greens), it is too.

It also had green goodness cucumbers and a thick consistency that was slightly lumpy and not like a smooth ranch dressing. Almost like cottage cheese. That was not a kid favorite.

But decades later cottage cheese was a food I grew into, and is great for green goodness and a green goddess dressing with cucumbers, that can also be used as a savory dip.

Just add your green herbs and fave spices, especially dill and chives that are punchy. Or cool cumin for the cucumbers. And milder tastes like thyme or oregano (herby vibes), parsley (fresh), and basil (sweet). They are spring tasting and add flavor dimensions.

Oh, and the flavor punch of them all… I add a ‘lil wasabi (that clears allergy sinuses!). It’s so easy to make your own with wasabi powder (that can be the mostly store bought horseradish kind. True wasabi is hard to find).

The white horseradish ingredient blend turns into light green with a little bit of water (less than 1 tsp), like you know wasabi to be on Western world restaurant served sushi plates. It looks like a plate clay sculpture.

And then you have your flavors, that you can blend with cottage cheese and your cukes in your blender or easy Magic Bullet. I like to use one whole cucumber for about a cup of cottage cheese dressing.

You can add this to your salad or rice. And serve next to falafel? Or chicken nuggets?

I made this white rice that’s Middle Eastern basmati, but you can use jasmine or any white rice. This eclectic blend is full circle for me as I planned parties for Lebanese restaurants in America, and I’m American Asian, so I embraced both worlds… and this is evident with wasabi on the side of basmati rice. 🍚

For rice you can make rice balls or a fluffy rice medallion and add in a few spoonfuls of the green goddess dressing that will add moisture to make a sticky mound good for presenting on a plate.

The zhugh with paprika (chili pepper) and/or turmeric (curcumin) to add some colorful anti-inflammatory healthy spices. 🌈 Or saffron’s effect is a mood uplifting game changer against a green goddess backdrop.