Description
Quick and creamy dill pickle dip offers zesty flavor perfect for gatherings. Crisp pickles and tangy cream cheese create an irresistible appetizer you’ll want to serve at all casual events.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (240 ml) sour cream
- ½ cup (120 ml) mayonnaise
- 1 cup (approximately 5 spears) chopped pickles
- 2 tbsps (30 ml) pickle juice
- 1 tsp dried dill (or 1 tablespoon fresh dill)
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion powder
- 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preparation: Gather all ingredients and a large mixing bowl, creating a workspace for crafting a tangy and creamy dill pickle dip with vibrant flavor complexity.
- Base Creation: Whisk sour cream and mayonnaise together until achieving a smooth, homogeneous mixture without any lumpy inconsistencies.
- Flavor Infusion: Blend finely chopped pickles, pickle juice, dried dill, garlic powder, onion powder, and black pepper into the creamy base, ensuring uniform distribution of zesty seasonings.
- Flavor Development: Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for approximately one hour, allowing ingredients to meld and intensify their collective taste profile.
- Presentation: Garnish the chilled dip with additional chopped pickles for visual appeal and textural contrast, then serve alongside tortilla chips, carrot and celery sticks, crackers, potato chips, or warm pita chips for a versatile appetizer experience.
Notes
- Chill for Flavor Fusion: Refrigerate the dip for at least one hour to allow ingredients to marry and develop a more complex, tangy taste profile.
- Pickle Precision: Finely chop pickles to ensure even distribution and prevent large, overwhelming chunks in each bite.
- Texture Tip: Reserve some chopped pickles for garnishing to add a fresh, crunchy element and visual appeal to the dip.
- Customization Hack: Adjust seasoning to personal preference by experimenting with pickle juice quantity and spice levels for a personalized flavor experience.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Appetizer, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 95
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 265 mg
- Fat: 9 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 3 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg