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Up subsequent? The creamiest roasted garlic feta dip whipped to perfection in your meals processor or blender with easy components and topped with the entire contemporary herbs you’ll find. I LOVE serving this dip with a plate stuffed with contemporary veggies, crackers, and pretzels. Keep tuned tomorrow for an additional new recipe that simply so occurs to be the proper method to get pleasure from this dip.
Try just a few other ways to make this dip your personal, and much more methods to serve it up beneath! Add it to your entire upcoming spring and summer time events, holidays, brunches, and get-togethers.
The whole lot you’ll have to make this garlic feta dip
This straightforward garlic feta dip requires simply 5 important components 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 (if you happen to’d like).
- Yogurt: just a little Greek yogurt provides an exquisite tangy taste, creaminess, and protein to the dip.
- Feta: can’t have feta dip with out salty, savory feta!
- Lemon juice: contemporary lemon juice provides the proper quantity of brightness to stability the savory flavors.
- Seasonings: don’t overlook just a little salt and pepper to convey all of it collectively.
- To garnish: I like topping this dip with contemporary herbs like parsley, chives, or dill, plus purple pepper flakes.
Strive these taste variations
- Herbed Whipped Garlic Dip: Add 2 tablespoons of a mixture of chopped contemporary leafy herbs (resembling dill, parsley, cilantro or basil) earlier than mixing.
- Tahini Whipped Garlic Dip: Add 2 tablespoons tahini to the blender and course of till clean. That is SO good! High with toasted sesame seeds on prime.
The way to roast a head of garlic
This dip begins with aromatic, savory, roasted garlic. It’s SO straightforward to do:
- Prep the garlic. Preheat the oven to 400º levels F. Minimize off ¼-½” from the highest, or the “stem” finish, of a garlic bulb (i.e. not the basis) and place it on a chunk 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 gentle and calmly golden in shade.
- Cool & add to the dip. Let the garlic cool fully, 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 get pleasure from this garlic feta dip
- Dip contemporary greens, pretzels, pita bread naan, or crackers (like these do-it-yourself 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 a fantastic sheet pan meal like this one, and even toss it with pasta for a scrumptious roasted garlic pasta sauce.
Tip for serving a crowd
The roasted garlic feta dip serves 4-6 folks as written, however be at liberty to double it to serve extra!
Make this dip forward of time
Be happy to make this garlic feta dip just a few days forward of time and retailer it in an hermetic container within the fridge. I might wait to garnish it with contemporary herbs till you’re able to serve it.
The 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 very good combine earlier than having fun with it from the fridge!
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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, contemporary lemon juice, and feta cheese. You will love the savory, salty, tangy flavors whipped collectively on this straightforward garlic feta dip! High with contemporary 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 popular!)
- 4 ounces feta, crumbled
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon contemporary lemon juice
- Freshly floor salt and pepper, to style
- To garnish
- Further-virgin olive oil
- 1 -2 tablespoons contemporary chopped leafy herbs, resembling parsley, chives or dill
- Purple 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. Depart 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. Permit 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 clean and properly mixed, scraping down the perimeters as essential. 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 just a little contemporary chopped leafy herbs – no matter you’ve gotten readily available is nice! This can be a excellent pairing with my parmesan roasted potatoes, but additionally pretty as a dip with chips, crostini or veggies, or as a diffusion on sandwiches, served with roasted rooster, and even underneath 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 clean. That is SO good! High with toasted sesame seeds on prime.
See the complete submit for suggestions, methods, and extra methods to customise this dip!
Diet
Serving: 1serving (primarily based on 6, dip solely)Energy: 130calCarbohydrates: 3.9gProtein: 5.9gFats: 10.4gSaturated Fats: 3.9gFiber: 0.1gSugar: 1.3g
Recipe by: Monique Volz // Bold Kitchen | Pictures by: Eat Love Eats
