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Spinach dip (sometimes casually spin dip) is a dip that uses the vegetable

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as a primary ingredient.Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 – Todd Wilbur
pp. 188-189. Frozen spinach is often used in its preparation.

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s may be used to prepare the dip, and it may be served warm, or there may be no cooking involved. Additional primary ingredients include

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cream cheese Cream cheese is a soft, usually mild-tasting fresh cheese made from milk and cream.Oxford English Dictionary Cream cheese is not naturally matured and is meant to be consumed fresh, so it differs from other soft cheeses such as Brie and Neuf ...

sour cream Sour cream (sometimes known as soured cream in British English) is a dairy product obtained by fermenting regular cream with certain kinds of lactic acid bacteria. The bacterial culture, which is introduced either deliberately or naturall ...

and

cheese Cheese is a type of dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk (usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats or sheep). During prod ...

.White Bean & Artichoke Spinach Dip - FOX 32 News Chicago
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, crackers and

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. The dip is commonly eaten as an ''

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'',

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, or party platter. Many casual restaurant

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offer spinach dip on their menus. Several commercially prepared,

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spinach dips are sold in

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s and

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s. Some commercial powdered mixes, such as Knorr, are available to flavor the dip.

Presentation

The dip is well-suited to a simple presentation: being served in a small

bowl A bowl is a typically round dish or container generally used for preparing, serving, storing, or consuming food. The interior of a bowl is characteristically shaped like a spherical cap, with the edges and the bottom, forming a seamless curve ...

or large

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prepared using hollowed-out bread that is filled with spinach dip is another method of presentation.Working Mother
p. 164. Spinach dips are sometimes served warm.

Variations

Spinach-artichoke dip is one common variation, with

artichoke heart The artichoke (''Cynara cardunculus'' var. ''scolymus''),Rottenberg, A., and D. Zohary, 1996: "The wild ancestry of the cultivated artichoke." Genet. Res. Crop Evol. 43, 53–58. also known by the other names: French artichoke, globe artichoke, ...

s utilized as the other primary ingredient. Ingredient additions may include

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s. Some recipes use spinach dip as a

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within other foods, like

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Presentation

Variations

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