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Up subsequent? The creamiest roasted garlic feta dip whipped to perfection in your meals processor or blender with easy elements and topped with all the recent herbs you could find. I LOVE serving this dip with my Crispy Parmesan Roasted Potatoes, a plate stuffed with recent veggies, crackers, and pretzels. Keep tuned tomorrow for an additional new recipe that simply so occurs to be the proper method to take pleasure in this dip.
Try just a few other ways to make this dip your personal, and much more methods to serve it up under! Add it to your whole upcoming spring and summer season events, holidays, brunches, and get-togethers.
Every little thing you’ll have to make this garlic feta dip
This simple appetizer requires simply 5 foremost elements and is SO creamy and scrumptious. Right here’s what you’ll want:
- Garlic: we’re roasting an entire head of garlic, which will get good and caramelized within the oven.
- Olive oil: you’ll want olive oil for roasting the garlic, mixing within the feta dip, and drizzling on prime (for those who’d like).
- Yogurt: a bit Greek yogurt provides a beautiful tangy taste, creaminess, and protein to the dip. No cream cheese concerned like many different feta dips!
- Feta: can’t have feta dip with out salty, savory feta!
- Lemon juice: recent lemon juice provides the proper quantity of brightness to steadiness the savory flavors.
- Seasonings: don’t neglect a bit salt and black pepper to convey all of it collectively.
- To garnish: I really like topping this dip with recent herbs like parsley, chives, or recent dill, plus a sprinkle of crimson pepper flakes and a drizzle of olive oil.
Strive these taste variations
- Herbed Whipped Garlic Dip: Add 2 tablespoons of a mixture of chopped recent leafy herbs (similar to dill, parsley, cilantro or basil) earlier than mixing.
- Tahini Whipped Garlic Dip: Add 2 tablespoons tahini to the blender and course of till easy. That is SO good! High with toasted sesame seeds on prime.
The best way to roast a head of garlic
This creamy feta dip begins with aromatic, savory, roasted garlic. It’s SO simple to do:
- Prep the garlic. Preheat the oven to 400º levels F. Lower off ¼-½” from the highest, or the “stem” finish, of a garlic bulb (i.e. not the foundation) and place it on a bit of tin foil. Drizzle the garlic with a tablespoon of olive oil, then shut the tin foil round it.
- Roast it up. Place the foil-wrapped garlic bulb on a small baking sheet and roast for about 40 minutes or till the garlic cloves are delicate and calmly golden in colour.
- Cool & add to the dip. Let the garlic cool utterly, then squeeze the garlic cloves out of the pores and skin and into your meals processor to make the feta dip.
Our favourite methods to take pleasure in this garlic feta dip
- Dip recent greens, pretzels, pita bread or pita chips, naan, or crackers (like these home made paleo crackers).
- Use it as a sandwich unfold or perhaps a salad dressing on a salad like this one!
- Drizzle it on roasted veggies or an attractive sheet pan meal like this one, and even toss it with pasta for a scrumptious roasted garlic pasta sauce.
- Add it to a platter and prime with these unimaginable Crispy Parmesan Roasted Potatoes
Tip for serving a crowd
The roasted garlic feta dip serves 4-6 folks as written, however be happy to double it to serve extra!
Make this dip forward of time
Be at liberty to make this garlic feta dip just a few days forward of time and retailer it in an hermetic container within the fridge. I’d wait to garnish it with recent herbs till you’re able to serve it.
The best way to retailer this garlic feta dip
Retailer any leftover feta dip in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3-4 days. Give it a superb combine earlier than having fun with it from the fridge!
Extra dip recipes you’ll love
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I hope you’re keen on this roasted garlic feta dip recipe! Should you make it make sure to go away a remark and a ranking so I understand how you favored it. Take pleasure in, xo!
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Roasted Garlic Whipped Feta Dip
Creamy garlic feta dip made with an entire head of roasted garlic, protein-packed Greek yogurt, recent lemon juice, and feta cheese. You will love the savory, salty, tangy flavors whipped collectively on this simple garlic feta dip! High with recent herbs and serve with veggies, crackers, and extra.
Elements
- For the roasted garlic:
- 1 head of garlic
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- For the whipped feta yogurt:
- ¾-1 cup plain Greek yogurt (2% or entire milk most well-liked!)
- 4 ounces feta, crumbled
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon recent lemon juice
- Freshly floor salt and pepper, to style
- To garnish
- Additional-virgin olive oil
- 1 -2 tablespoons recent chopped leafy herbs, similar to parsley, chives or dill
- Crimson pepper flakes, elective
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 400 levels F.
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For the garlic: peel and discard the outer papery layers of the entire garlic head. Go away the skins intact of the person cloves. Utilizing a pointy knife, reduce ¼ inch off from the highest of the cloves in order that the person cloves of garlic are uncovered. Place garlic in a medium piece of foil and drizzle the highest of the garlic with olive oil then loosely wrap within the foil and place on a small sheet pan. Roast within the oven for 40 minutes till very aromatic. Enable garlic to chill for five minutes earlier than eradicating foil.
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Make the whipped feta yogurt dip: enable the garlic to chill sufficient to the contact, then merely use your fingers to squeeze the roasted garlic from the pores and skin and add it on to a excessive powered blender or meals processor. Then add in yogurt, feta, olive oil, and lemon juice. Course of till easy and effectively mixed, scraping down the perimeters as crucial. Add salt and pepper to style and course of/mix as soon as extra.
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Add to a shallow bowl that’s nice for dipping then drizzle a little bit of olive oil on prime. Garnish with a bit recent chopped leafy herbs – no matter you have got readily available is nice! This can be a excellent pairing with my parmesan roasted potatoes, but in addition pretty as a dip with chips, crostini or veggies, or as a variety on sandwiches, served with roasted rooster, and even below a mattress of roasted veggies! Completely as much as you.
Recipe Notes
Tahini Whipped Garlic Dip: Add 2 tablespoons tahini to the blender and course of till easy. That is SO good! High with toasted sesame seeds on prime.
See the complete put up for suggestions, tips, and extra methods to customise this dip!
Diet
Serving: 1serving (based mostly on 6, dip solely)Energy: 130calCarbohydrates: 3.9gProtein: 5.9gFats: 10.4gSaturated Fats: 3.9gFiber: 0.1gSugar: 1.3g
Recipe by: Monique Volz // Formidable Kitchen | Pictures by: Eat Love Eats
