Today I'm up in the mountains and I'm going to show you how to make homemade spinach dip. This
is pretty easy. I am out here in the mountains and out in the forest, so if I can do it out here
you can surely do it at home. What you have got to start with is an onion, and you need 1/4 a
cup of diced onion. It should be diced kind of small, so I have this little device here
called a Chop Wizard. You slice your onion and lay it on the grid. Then you bring down the lid
and it dices it for you. You can measure how much you have by looking here on the sides of the
Chop Wizard's base. I'll show you how this works. I need a fourth of a cup of finely diced onion.
I've got my slice of onion on there. I peeled it and cut off a slice. All you
do is you just bring this down like this. Give it a good whack and lift it back up,
and there are your diced onions! I need about a quarter cup so it looks like
that's about right. That's about half a cup so I'll use about half of that amount.
That saves having to dice the onion with a knife which takes forever.
You're also going to need a quarter cup of diced red pepper. Since I already have the chopper out
I might as well do that now. You won't need this ingredient until later on in the recipe, though.
I'm going to slice off a piece of this, put it up here, and get my quarter cup diced red pepper.
And just like that --
there's your quarter cup diced red pepper!
Next you melt a tablespoon of butter in a medium-sized saucepan
over medium heat. Once that's melted, you stir in the onion and one clove of garlic. For the garlic,
I use garlic that's already been chopped and minced. I think one teaspoon of this equals
one clove of fresh garlic if you're going to use fresh garlic. So once that's melted
we'll add in the quarter cup chopped onion and one teaspoon of the minced garlic because I'm using
refrigerated garlic. If you're using a fresh clove of garlic, you want to mince one clove of it.
So here's the teaspoon of garlic
and the onions
You cook and stir that until the onions get a little tender. It shouldn't take too long.
Well, that smells good already! The garlic and the onion is a great combination. So we'll
let that cook until that onion gets tender. Once that's done you add in the cream cheese
one -- one 8 ounce package of cream cheese -- and a quarter cup of milk. You cook and
stir that until it's smooth. So that will be the next step in a few minutes once the onions cook.
So here's the eight ounces of cream cheese that goes into the pot
along with a quarter cup of milk. You just cook that until the cream cheese gets smooth.
I like to break it up into chunks so it melts faster.
See how I broke that up into chunks? So that should melt in about five minutes or so. You
just keep stirring it and wait until the cream cheese melts Then we'll add the next ingredients.
So once the cream cheese gets pretty smooth like that, you add in a quarter teaspoon of shredded
lemon peel. You can buy this in the supermarket as a spice. It comes in a little glass bottle.
I have already pre-measured mine out. That is a quarter teaspoon of shredded lemon peel.
Then you add in one tablespoon of lemon juice.
Then you add in two teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce into the dip.
The optional ingredient is a couple drops of red hot sauce if you want. Add only
a couple drops like that.
Then you mix all that up. I've already added the steak sauce right before I added the hot sauce.
You mix all that up. I almost forgot the main ingredient -- a 10 ounce
package of frozen spinach that you've thawed and drained. I did this earlier and put it
into a plastic bag. So the spinach goes into the dip as well.
You have to mix that spinach in because it's been refrigerated. It has to heat through.
I can't believe I almost forgot to add the spinach when I'm making spinach dip!
So once the spinach dip is heated through, you can add in one to two tablespoons of milk
to reach your desired dipping consistency. I'm just going to add a tablespoon of milk,
and then you add in the quarter cup of chopped red pepper which I have right here.
Throw that in there, give it a good mix, and let it heat through for about a minute or so.
So that's how you make homemade spinach dip! There's the final product. Doesn't that look
delicious? So what you do is you take some tortilla chips like this and dip it in and enjoy.
Oh my god! That is so good!
This spinach dip is a great recipe and so easy to make! Believe me, you are going to love it!
Oh, that's great! So that's how you make spinach dip here in another cooking class
up in the mountains and not out in the desert.
Here is my campfire for tonight,
and it's just after sunset. Here's looking up at the sky around me up here in the forest and....