When I made this creamy dip for the vegetarian potluck our church has each week, lots of people asked for the recipe!  |
| Creamy Avocado Spinach Dip |
Ingredients:
1 medium ripe avocado (peel and seed removed)2 cups fresh spinach, packed lightly
1 tsp. fresh lime juice
1 clove garlic (papery skin removed)
Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients until thoroughly blended in a food processor 
or in a Vitamix
or another high speed blender with a tamper
. 2. Serve immediately with fresh cut veggies or refrigerate for up to 24 hours.
Serves 4.
Variations:
1. Lemon juice may be used in exchange for the lime juice.2. Reconstituted lemon or lime juice can be used.
3. 1 tsp. powdered garlic may be used in exchange for the clove of garlic.
4. Try this recipe with your favorite leafy greens instead of spinach.
Tips:
1. Here are great illustrated instructions about how to remove an avocado from its peel.2. Veggies sliced or cut into interesting shapes make great presentations. Here is a great slideshow that I found with tips about how to cut veggies.
Did you like it? What did you serve it with?
My hubby always makes the dips around here, it's his kitching niche :) I'll pass this one on to him :D I would totally serve this with cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, crackers, Oooo and red pepper :) Yum! Thank you for sharing your recipe!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite way to have dips these days is to use slices of zucchini. I hope he likes it!
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