This creamy Cold Spinach Artichoke dip recipe is a popular appetizer or snack, often served with crackers, chips or bread. Serve it hot or cold.
If you love the Walmart dip but can’t get to Walmart, this is your chance to make this delicious dip easily at home.
- Can This Spinach Dip Be Served Hot?
- Why Is My Dip Watery?
- How To Use Leftover Dip
- Can You Freeze Spinach Artichoke Dip?
- Recipe
Ingredients
Spinach and Artichoke Hearts. Perhaps the most difficult part of this recipe is squeezing out the spinach and artichoke. You need to use a colander and/or cheesecloth. I used a piece of cheesecloth. Really squeeze out the water.
The rest of the recipe is very easy. The entire process takes only about 15 minutes.
Mayonnaise and Sour Cream. If you don’t have one of them, you could use plain Greek yogurt instead.
Ricotta Cheese. I’ve made this with cream cheese in the past. This time, I wanted something more creamy. Cream cheese makes the dip a little thick. Ricotta cheese is great for flavor but also perfectly creamy for chips and crackers, even when cold.
Can This Spinach Dip Be Served Hot?
Yes, definitely! I know that I’ve made “Cold Spinach Artichoke Dip” but it’s honestly delicious hot or cold. I really love it cold, personally, but I’m not going to turn it down hot, golden and bubbly.
You can heat it in a 350° oven for about 25 minutes. Serve it with bread cubes or even tortilla chips. You can also put it in the center of Hawaiian bread, using the cubes for dipping.
Why Is My Dip Watery?
I can think of two reasons this can happen. The first reason is obvious. You need to remove as much liquid as possible from both the frozen spinach and the artichoke hearts. If you have too much water, it will certainly make the dip watery.
The other reason isn’t as obvious. If someone is double-dipping or eating the dip with a spoon and sticking the spoon back into the container, you’re going to have a saliva situation.
Not getting too technical, there are enzymes in saliva which start digesting food. So, if you get some in your food, it’s going to start breaking it down, even if it’s in a container in the refrigerator.
How To Store
You can store leftover spinach artichoke dip in the refrigerator for about 5 days. Cover it with plastic wrap or in an airtight container.
How To Use Leftover Dip
You can eat a serving of the dip on the side of any meal. Eating it with a spoon is perfectly fine. You can eat it with crackers, bread cubes or chips. To make it more healthy, use celery and carrot sticks or cucumber slices instead.
Use the dip to replace mayonnaise on a sandwich. Toss with a fresh batch of hot pasta. Spread it on a pizza and top with with mozzarella. With all these different ideas, you won’t have to worry about freezing it.
Can You Freeze Spinach Artichoke Dip?
This dip can be frozen in an airtight container, although I wouldn’t call it optimal. Freezing any dairy will usually change the texture. It will produce ice crystals which could make the dip watery when thawed.
Freeze it up to 3 months, but it’s not my favorite way to use up the leftovers.
You May Want To Try
These are some other great recipes that you may like to try, especially if you like Spinach as much as I do.
Recipe
Cold Spinach Artichoke Dip
Ingredients
- 12 ounces Frozen Spinach thawed, drained very well
- 14 ounces Artichoke Hearts canned, drained very well, chopped
- ¾ cup Ricotta Cheese
- ¾ cup Sour Cream
- ½ cup Light Mayonnaise
- ½ cup Parmesan Cheese grated
- ¼ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice bottled
Instructions
- Place thawed chopped spinach in a colander and/or cheesecloth to squeeze out as much liquid as possible. Set aside.
- Open and drain canned artichoke hearts and chop lightly. Place in the same colander and/or cheesecloth to squeeze out the liquid. Pat with a paper towel to remove any other liquid. Set aside.
- With medium mixing bowl, stir together ricotta cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise completely.
- In a separate bowl, with a spoon, stir together Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, salt and lemon juice. Once distributed, stir in spinach and artichoke.
- Fold the spinach mixture into the Ricotta cheese mixture.
Notes
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Oh my, this is definitely a great-looking dip that everyone will gonna love! Looks amazingly delicious and very yummy! A perfect dip at any time of the day! Great to pair with our bread and chips! Loved it!
Oh my goodness, this dip recipe is so easy to make and so delicious!
Perfect for my Ritz biscuits!