Dip Recipe

Hosting a party at home, stepping out for a picnic or slouching down as you watch a favorite show - a hot or cold dip with chips is a sure favorite. Dips go well with potato chips, tortilla chips or salty-snacks. A tasty dip is a wonderful accompaniment for salads. Look up simple recipes for spinach dip, artichoke dip and honey dip. Find out how to make tasty and healthy dips at home.

Homemade dip

According to the American Institute for Cancer Research:

• Dips from markets are usually high in fat, calories and sodium
  
  
• Commercial dips are low in health-protective phytochemicals
  
  
• Homemade dips can help in maintaining weight
  
  
• Homemade dips can be nutritious and cancer protective
  

With easy homemade dip recipes, you can create fresh, low fat, vegetable-based dips that are rich in flavor and healthier too. In fact, if you are a lover of herbs, you can prepare tasty herb dips.

Tasty Dips temptations

Unlike chutneys, sauces and cheese that are typically applied or sprinkled onto food, a dip as a sauce literally means dipping food items into the dip sauce. Get ready to master the art of preparing lip smacking homemade dips. Use your imagination, as creating tasty dips hardly demands any sort of culinary expertise. All it needs is creative use of ingredients. Dips are easy to make, quick to prepare and usually a hot favorite with all. Dips can be prepared and stored in the refrigerator - ideal for whipping up a tasty snack for hungry kids and unexpected visitors at home.

Seven Layer Dip recipe

2 cans of homemade bean dip
3 ripe avocados
1-cup sour cream
1 pack taco seasoning
4 green onions
1 to 4 ripe tomatoes
1 cup chopped black olives.
1 cup grated cheddar cheese

Take a dish that can accommodate seven layers. Pour the bean dip into it. Lay the peeled, seeded and mashed avocados. Mix sour cream with taco seasoning and lay on the dish. Lay the chopped tomatoes and then the chopped onions. Top with grated cheddar cheese. Refrigerate and remove an hour before serving time.

Guacamole dip recipe

2 avocados
2 tomatoes
1 jalapeno pepper
½ cup sweet onion
1 lemon
2 cups cottage cheese
½ tsp garlic powder
Salt and pepper

Place scooped flesh of avocados in a medium-size mixing bowl. Mash well. Add lemon juice and mix well. Mix other ingredients such as diced tomatoes and pepper. Add a twist of lime juice. Stir well. Refrigerate for one hour before serving.

Cheese herb dip recipe

1-cup cottage cheese (creamy)
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp milk
2 tbsp low fat salad dressing
2 tbsp green onions
¼ cup parsley
½ tsp tarragon leaves
Dash of pepper

Chop the green onions and parsley and set aside. Mix all the ingredients using a blender or a food processor. Ensure that the dip is smooth and creamy. Substitute low-fat cottage cheese as a healthier option.

Hot crab dip

Light cream cheese
Can of crab meat
¼ cup of green onions
2 tsp lime juice
½ tsp of Worcestershire sauce
¼ tsp paprika
Hot pepper sauce (few drops)

Drain the crab meat and keep aside the liquid. Chop the green onions finely and keep aside. Place the cheese on the bowl and microwave at a medium setting till it softens. Stir the creamy cheese until smooth. Add the crabs, green onions, 2 tbsp of drained crab liquid, lemon juice, Worcestshire sauce, paprika and hot pepper sauce. Stir well and microwave at a medium-high setting.

Pumpkin dip recipe

2 cups pumpkin puree
1 cup dark brown sugar
2-tsp. fine ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp. ground cloves
½ tsp. fresh ground ginger
1 pack cream cheese (well softened)
¼ tsp. freshly grated nutmeg.

Blend together pumpkin puree and cream cheese. Add other ingredients. Refrigerate before serving.

Spinach dip recipe

1 cup of cottage cheese
1-cup fresh spinach; thawed and chopped
1/3-cup fresh basil
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard

Blend all ingredients until smooth. Add plain yogurt for additional flavor.

Artichoke dip recipe

1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese
Marinated artichoke hearts
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 ½ tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. Paprika

Drain artichoke hearts and set aside. Preheat oven to 175 decrees C. Place mayonnaise, Parmesan, artichoke, mozzarella and garlic powder in a large bowl and mix well. Transfer the ingredients to baking dish and bake for 30 minutes. Sprinkle with paprika and serve.

Shrimp Taco dip

2 tbsp low-fat milk
Light cream cheese
½ cup chili sauce
1 cup fresh or frozen shrimp
4 chopped scallions
¾ cup chopped green bell pepper
Slicked black olives 3-4 ounce only

Thawed shrimp should be drained, rinsed and patted dry. Pat dry the slick black olives. Mix cream and cheese till smooth. Spread on a serving platter and layer the remaining ingredients one after the other. Chill for one hour before serving.

Fruit dip recipe

Blend cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and marshmallow cream till smooth.

Honey dip

1 cup of honey
½ cup peanut butter
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ cup cream cheese

Mix honey, peanut butter, cinnamon and cream cheese and blend well. Refrigerate for 24 hours before use.