diffrent flavours of Dips

[Leanne]

i am looking for some diffrent flavour dips
like French Onion dip
gherkin & Cheese
capsicum
corn relish

any help would be grateful
Leanne

[Thermomixer]

There's the standard ones from the book - hoummus, etc - did you want TMX conversions of the dips

go to http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?action=search2 and where it says "Did you forget to type something in?"  type dip and hit Search - there are anumber of dips

[cathy79]

Leanne, you can't go wrong adding whatever flavours you like to good old cream cheese.  Make sure you soften your cream cheese by getting it out of the fridge for a while.  Or I cheated recently and softened it in TMX by heating and stirring slightly until it was mixable.  Think I might have used 37d, speed 1 or 2 until it got mixable.  Then you can add whatever you like.

[judydawn]

Hi Lands, my consultant sent me this dip for French onion - haven't tried it and usually just make the one with the packet of french onion soup/cream cheese.

2 medium sized onions
2 tblspns butter
250g cream cheese
1 tspn vegetable stock concentrate

Chop onions on speed 7 for 3-5 seconds.
Add butter and cook 10 mins at 100^o on speed 1.
Allow to cool.

Add cream cheese and stock concentrate and mix for 20 seconds on speed 4.
Serve garnished with chopped chives.

For the corn dip - I just mix a jar of sweetcorn relish with 250g cream cheese.

[achookwoman]

i am looking for some diffrent flavour dips
like French Onion dip
gherkin & Cheese
capsicum
corn relish

any help would be grateful
Leanne

Hi Leanne, we here just love dips. Two that seem popular with visitors are Fay's Capsicum sauce which you pour over a tub of cream cheese,  and Maggie's Artichoke Dip. 
Capsicum sauce.

1 small tin Capsicum
1/4 cup of vinegar
1/2 cup sugar

Place all ingredients into T.M bowl and cook until syrupy.    Probably 10 mins. at 100  .
Pour over a 250g tub of Philly cheese or similar.

This provides a sweet/sour combination which goes well with the cheese,   it also is very easy.   I've tried it with fresh capsicum but it is not as good.

Maggie's (Beer) Artichoke, green olive and lemon dip.

Warning-  this looks like green sludge but is absolutely delicious .

1 cup pitted green olives
2  tinned or bottled artichikes
1 tablespoon preserved lemon ( skin only) washed and rinsed well
1 tablespoon of salted capers, rinsed and well drained
1 cup of flat leaf parsley
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon mint

1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 to 1/2 cup of verjuice
salt and pepper to taste

Place all ingredients, except oil and verjuice, in T.M bowl and pulse until roughly chopped.
Incorporate oil and verjuice on  , until mixed in



Place all ingredients into T.M. bowl and cook until syrupy,  Probably 10 mins at 100 

[trudy]

Hi Leanne,  This is one of our favourites

GERKIN DIP

Place into TM bowl
4 oz (115 grms) philli creamed cheese
2 tablespoons mayo
2 teaspoons horseradish cream

Cream for a approx 1 min until you get a nice smooth dip consistency then add

1 oz (30grms) toasted slivered almonds
3 tablespoons chopped sweet gerkins

Turn TM to Reverse speed for a few seconds to incorporate the almonds and gerkins

Hope you like it

Trudy

[Nay-nay]

My fav atm is the sundried tomato dip from the EDC adding some fresh basil (just a few leaves) from garden. YummO!! 

[andiesenji]

I've prepared the caramelized onions or "Onion Jam" as posted by Thermomixer, except I did not include the raisins.
Instead, I used half of a preserved lemon (just the peel, stripped of the fruit pulp and rinsed well) and just a tablespoon of chopped candied ginger.
http://thermomix-er.blogspot.com/2009/08/thermomix-onion-jam.html

This yielded enough that I took half, and added it to an equal portion of cream cheese (homemade - the commercial stuff has to be beaten a bit to fluff it up) and lastly stirred in some crispy bacon bits - I think I used 6 strips of bacon, crumbled. 

I also made the red pepper jam from here: http://www.ukthermomix.com/recshow.php?rec_id=88 but substituted one medium spicy pepper for part of the total pepper weight. 
This is also very good mixed with cream cheese.  Sorry I can't give exact measurements - I just add it until the taste is correct.  I don't think you can go wrong with whatever ratio you choose. 

I served both of these with homemade melba toast and sesame pita. 

[achookwoman]

Andisenji,    these sound yummy.    How do you make "homemade cream cheese".?

[Thermomixer]

Great dip ideas - when my computer is not on go-slow I might copy to the starters thread.  Thanks all 

[I Love Bimby!]

Green Olive Dip

1/2 batch of Mayo (EDC)
100 g of pitted green olives

Chop olives on speed 4 for about 4-8 seconds (until desired consitancy is reached).
Add Mayo and stir on Reverse speed 3 for about 20 seconds.

Yum!

[cathy79]

Great dip ideas - when my computer is not on go-slow I might copy to the starters thread.  Thanks all 

Please do.  That would be great!

[CreamPuff63]

Hi Leanne, I didn't think that the flavours of the dips that you were requesting were very different from the supermarket variety at all - you should try some of the recipes from the Forum and you will then taste something REALLY different. My favourites are Beetroot, Parmesan and Cashew dip, Salmon Dip, Sweet Potato and Macadamia dip to come up with off the top of my head.

[andiesenji]

Andisenji,    these sound yummy.    How do you make "homemade cream cheese".?

I recommend the process described and illustrated here: http://www.realepicurean.com/2009/10/how-to-make-curd-cheese/#more-1179

After the cheese is drained overnight, transfer it to a bowl and stir in 115 g heavy cream and press the mixture firmly into a shallow bowl or plastic container or a fancy mold, if you want to serve it with crackers, etc.  Chill it for an hour as this will help it hold its shape.
Otherwise use it as you would store-bought cream cheese. 
The richer the milk you use, the richer will be your cheese.   

Raw milk will give the very best result but you do have to heat the milk to at least 80° C. and hold it at that temp for 4 minutes (don't let it boil) then let it cool slightly before proceeding with the above process.

[achookwoman]

Thanks Andisenji,   I'll give it a go.