Everyone Loves a Dip
My article last month about feeding toddlers discussed how much they like to dip their food. I am hardly a toddler but I can’t resist a good dip. Food dip that is. Below is a great collection of my friends and families favorite dip recipes. These dips are sure to be a hit at your summer events. Please share your favorite dip recipe below in the “Leave a Reply” section.
For the health conscious dippers:
- Decrease fat content by choosing lower fat ingredients such as reduced fat cream cheese and reduced fat mayonnaise.
- Experiment with using plain yogurt in place of sour cream. This will decrease the fat content and boost the calcium content.
- Serve vegetables with dips that are traditionally served with bread or chips. It is a low calorie way to sneak in extra nutrients, fiber, and antioxidants.
Peanut Butter Dip
Ingredients:
- ½ cup vanilla flavored yogurt
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup miniature chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Directions:
Mix all ingredients and serve with apples, celery or pretzels.
Neely’s Famed Veggie Dip
Ingredients:
- ½ cup reduced fat sour cream
- 1 cup Hellman’s reduced fat mayonnaise
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- ½ Tablespoon Parmesan cheese
- ½ Tablespoon dried parsley
- ½ Tablespoon dried onion
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon garlic salt
- seasoning salt, to taste
Directions:
Mix all ingredients and refrigerate overnight. Serve with a variety of vegetables.
Char’s Fruit Dip
Ingredients:
- ½ cup low-fat sour cream
- 1 cup skim milk
- 1 package instant vanilla pudding
- 8 ounces crushed pineapple (don’t drain)
- 1 cup shredded coconut
Directions:
Mix all ingredients and place in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Hot Corn Dip
Ingredients:
- 1 (15 ounce) can white corn
- 1 ( 15 ounce) can yellow corn
- 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chili peppers, drained
- 1 (8 ounce) package reduced fat cream cheese, diced and softened
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- chopped fresh cilantro, to taste
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F degrees
- In medium baking dish, mix white corn, yellow corn, diced tomatoes, with green chili peppers, cream cheese, chili powder, garlic powder, and cilantro.
- Bake in the preheated oven 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
Do you have to add anything to the yogurt when using it in place of the sour cream?
I like the money saving hints for snacks you gave!
Nothing needs to be added to the yogurt. Just make sure that you use plain yogurt. Using strawberry yogurt to top a baked potato may be interesting but not the flavor you are going for;).