Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing is a great combination of flavors – freshly chopped herbs, smoky jalapenos, and umami-rich adobo sauce blended into a tangy, creamy base.
Many ranch dressings taste great, but they aren’t very healthy and are packed with salt, fat, and preservatives.
This Good and Good for You™ recipe for Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing, perfect for grilled turkey tenderloin, is made with simple ingredients. It’s delicious with just enough heat, and is lower in salt, calories, and added sugars.
This issue also shares
- The Best Life Living Tip: Laying it all Out👟
- The Self-Care Strategy: Eating at Home 🍽️
- Ideas and Inspiration: Sunflowers at The Station 🌻
Read on for more, including my Good and Good for You™ recipe for Turkey Tenderloin with Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing. You’ll love it on grilled meats, as a sandwich spread, salad dressing, and as a dip for chips and crudites.
Best Life Living Tip
Calm is the opposite of chaos. Optimal mental health requires more calm and less chaos.
What’s the best life living tip that will offer you more calm and less chaos? Lay out your outfit the night before. Dressing with intention by planning outfits the night before might be just the mood booster you need while helping alleviate stress and freeing up your morning for other activities and actions.
Laying out your clothes the night before offers several benefits. It allows for a more relaxed start to the day, as one of the daily decisions is already made.
Who knew picking out clothes could be so powerful?
If you exercise in the morning, there’s a bonus because it’s a visual reminder for you to work out, making it harder for you to blow it off.
Self-Care Strategy
Let’s face it, ordering in is easy. A few taps and “dinner is ready.” However, meal delivery is expensive, and for the most part, it’s not particularly good for you. For the best self-care for your wallet and your waistline, it’s time to swipe past the delivery apps and straight to a trustworthy recipe website.
HowToMoney.com states, “Let’s say you’re a family of 4 who typically eats out 3x per week. At $15 per person, you’re spending about $720 every month at restaurants. If you replace those meals with home-cooked ones costing approximately $5 per person, you’ll see savings of $480 each month!”
They also have a No Eating Out Challenge with lots of tips on how to eat at home, including replicating your favorite restaurant meals. That’s where this recipe for Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing comes in! Why go out to eat when you can make it at home better and cheaper?
For this Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing, all you need are canned chipotles en adobo. Chipotles are smoked and dried jalapeños. Adobo is a sweet and tangy purée of tomato, vinegar, garlic, and spices. Chipotles in adobo are smoked and dried jalapeños that are rehydrated and canned in this flavorful sauce. Since there are multiple chili peppers in each can, I remove what I need and then transfer the remaining chipotles and adobo to a glass jar. Label and date it for later use. They will last indefinitely.
Ideas and Inspiration
Happy Summer! Look at those sunflowers! You can see them, too, if you head to Pitts, Georgia, to see Clay and Valerie Oliver.
Oliver Farm makes cold-pressed artisan oils, flour, and meal. (I love using their nut powder in my Skinny Chocolate Dipping Sauce and Chocolate Ice Dream recipes.)
They also have a shop called The Station 31072, where they sell their products and other locally made products. Every summer, they also grow sunflowers. The fields are enormous and awe-inspiring. It’s only a few hours from Atlanta and well worth the trip! A $5 pass gets you access. You may take photos, pick some beautiful flowers, or just enjoy a peaceful time watching the flowers sway in the breeze with the bees & butterflies.
Make sure to give them a follow on Instagram at @thestation31072 and @oliverfarm
Good and Good for You™Living Spotlight
Last year, I developed Virginia’s Peach Pound Cake for Pearson Farm. Yes, even though I’ve lost weight and changed my life, I still eat cake. You can win a FREE cake and a signed copy of Bon Appetit, Y’all, if you head over to my Instagram feed. Like me, like Pearson Farm, and enter to win!
Make it Count
Thanks so much for reading. I hope you enjoy this recipe for Grilled Turkey Tenderloin with Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing. This dressing is going to be a go-to for certain this summer.
Please follow me on IG @virginiawillis for more best life tips, self-care techniques, ideas and inspiration, and healthy recipes.
As long as you’re doing what’s Good and Good for You™ more often than not, you’re on the right track.
🙌🏻 You can do it!
Bon Appétit Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Turkey Tenderloin with Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing
Ingredients
- 1½ pounds turkey tenderloin (2 pieces)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- ½ cup 0% skyr or Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup light mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons mixed chopped fresh herbs such as parsley basil, dill, and cilantro
- 2 tablespoons adobo sauce
- 1 chipotle pepper from a can of chipotles in adobo sauce, chopped
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- limes, for serving
- cilantro, for garnish
Instructions
- Season both sides of the tenderloins with the cumin, coriander, salt, and pepper. Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Spray with nonstick spray. Sear the tenderloins on both sides, about 2 minutes. Cover and cook until the turkey is firm and the internal temperature registers 160 degrees when measured with an instant-read thermometer, about 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, herbs, adobo, chopped chipotle, apple cider vinegar, garlic powder, and onion powder in a small bowl. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Slice the turkey against the grain and serve with Chipotle Adobo Ranch Dressing.
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