Dip Tips

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      Instead of the usual sour cream or yoghurt dip, why not try something different. Using the proportions of the basic (1 tablespoon Bittersweet Blend to 1 cup dairy product) party dip recipe (as above) substitute the dairy product for one suggested below.

 

Different Party Dip Bases

 

• Cooked and mashed eggplant 
• mashed chickpeas, cannellini (butter beans), kidney beans or cooked lentils
• Salmon or tuna, mashed
• Avocado, mashed
• Cook and whizz green beans or peas
• Tofu, use silky
• Different Dairy (try low fat where available): ricotta, quarg, cottage cheese, reduced cream or crème freche

Different Additions to Party Dips

• Diced red, green and/or yellow peppers (raw or roasted)
• Minced red onion
• Chopped black or green olives
• Lots of coarsely ground black pepper
• Chopped and toasted almonds, sunflower seeds or pine nuts
• Chopped pistachios, walnuts, pecans or peanuts
• Rinse, refresh, and dry a tin of 4 Beans (in brine)
• To one-cup party dip add ¼ cup grated Parmesan or tasty cheese
• One tablespoon mashed, roasted garlic to one cup of dip
• Dash of soy, Hosin, Worcestershire, Tabasco sauces (or Bittersweet Cajun or Chili to add heat to savoury flavours), or mustard (dry or prepared - each mustard will create a different result)

Different Dippers

• All kinds of vegetables: carrots, celery, spring onions, courgettes, cucumbers, broccoli, capsicum strips, and cauliflower florets, slightly steamed green beans, or snow peas, or…
• • Cooked and chilled tortellini (cut in half?)
• • Bread sticks
• • Cooked prawns
• • Surimi pieces on toothpicks
• • Bok choy, Shanghi or endive leaves
• • Radish slices
• • Cooked artichoke leaves
• • Small mushrooms or mushroom slices

Uses for Leftover Dairy Party Dips:

• • Mix with vinegar or lemon juice for salad dressings, marinades or coatings.
• • Mix with mashed potatoes instead of milk and butter (great potato pancakes).
• • Use as you would tomato or tartare sauce.
• • Garnish soups. Us a good dessertspoonful and swirl in each bowl of soup.
• • Add grated cheese, spread on bread slice and grill.
• • In bread making – use yoghurt bread recipe, substitute dip.
• • Dips (sour cream or cream cheese) are a more flavourful sandwich spread than mayonnaise. Substitute low fat yoghurt for sour cream or cream cheese and get lots of flavour and fewer calories.