Sour Cream Dip for Chips

Crispy chips, when eaten alone, taste dry and boring. If you are fed up of eating the same snacks, try something new to complement them. Do not think of serving them with another predictable sauce, like a super creamy sour cream dip for chips. Indeed, this fatty dairy product goes well for any type of dip recipes. Requiring lesser ingredients than sour cream dipping sauce, it hardly takes 10-15 minutes to prepare this dip.

Recipes of Sour Cream Dips

Creamy Sour Cream Dip

Ingredients

• 1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon fresh dill weed, finely chopped
• ⅛ teaspoon garlic powder
• ⅛ teaspoon onion powder
• ⅛ teaspoon paprika
• Dash of cayenne pepper for taste
• Freshly cracked black pepper
• Juice of ¼ lemon
• ½ tablespoon green onion, finely chopped
• ½ tablespoon chives, finely chopped

Directions

In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat sour cream and mayonnaise for 4-5 minutes. Following this, add the chip dip recipe ingredients - dill weed, garlic powder, onion, powder, paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper and lemon juice. Combine well and allow the mixture to stand for 10 minutes. This will bring out the best flavor of the seasoning spices. Then, garnish with green onion and chives. Spoon into a serving bowl, and serve with crispy potato chips.

Sour Cream and Onion Dip

Ingredients

• 8 ounces sour cream
• 1 package dry onion soup mix
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• Fresh chives, chopped
• Green onion, chopped finely

Directions

If you love the taste of sour cream blended with onion flavor, then you will love this dip. Keep the required ingredients listed above in a handy place. In a mixing bowl, add sour cream and onion soup mix. Whisk together for 5-7 minutes, or until blended well and keep aside. Lightly warm the cream cheese over low heat setting, and add to the bowl containing sour cream mixture. Stir again, put the lid on and keep in the refrigerator for 4 hours. Just before serving, garnish dip with chives and green onions.

Caramelized Onion and Sour Cream Dip

Ingredients

• 2 medium-sized yellow onions
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 cups low-fat sour cream
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
• 1 teaspoon white balsamic vinegar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

Directions

This is a perfect sour cream dip for those who love the taste of caramelized onion. This recipe requires yellow onion. First of all, peel onion and make slices out of them with a sharp kitchen knife. Cut slices into half and keep aside. Preheat a thick saucepan or skillet over medium high heat setting. Melt butter and add olive oil to it. Add onion slices and sprinkle salt and pepper for taste. Stir and cook over low heat for 20 minutes, until the onion turns golden brown. Let the caramelized onion cool down, and add in a food processor. To this, add half of sour cream, thyme and balsamic vinegar. Blend to make a coarse puree. Transfer into a bowl and scrape down the sides of the blender. Stir in the remaining sour cream. Refrigerate for 3-4 hours and serve.

In the same way, you can prepare sour cream dip for vegetables by increasing the spiciness or altering the seasoning ingredients. Or a simple method is to combine 1 package each of your favorite vegetable soup mix and sour cream. Stir well, and refrigerate the dip for 1-2 hours. Serve it chilled with fresh veggies or steamed green leafy vegetables. The easiest of all is making sour cream fruit dip recipe. You just need to mix sour cream with dry fruits, vanilla extract and sugar (optional) in a mixing bowl and serve with fresh fruit slices.

So, this was all on sour cream dip for chips. In case you are watching your daily calorie intake, prepare a low calorie, sour cream dip recipe version. All you need to do is substitute ¼ of the sour cream with plain, non-fatty yogurt. The taste for this chip dip is nearly good, except that it has a thinner consistency.