Sour Cream Dip Recipes For Vegetables

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• Combine all ingredients in saucepan.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and thickened.
• Chill.

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• Add the mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, salt and chives to a bowl. Mix together, and then cover and chill until ready to serve.

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• Add all the ingredients to a bowl and mix well. Serve with black pepper potato chips.

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• Combine the arugula, celery, carrot, scallions, garlic and tarragon in a food processor and pulse until very finely chopped.
• Add the sour cream, mayonnaise and cream cheese and pulse to combine. Add the crushed chips and pulse a few more times until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a bowl and chill 30 minutes or up to 8 hours. Serve with vegetables.

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• Heat 3 tablespoons oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat.
• Add onion and next 4 ingredients.
• Cover; cook until vegetables release their juices, stirring occasionally, about 12 minutes.
• Uncover; sauté until juices evaporate, about 10 minutes.
• Add garlic; cook until vegetables are very tender and just beginning to brown, about 12 minutes longer.
• Cool completely.
• Puree vegetable mixture and sour cream in processor until almost smooth.
• Season generously with salt and pepper.
• Transfer to bowl.
• Sprinkle with capers.
• Preheat broiler.
• Arrange bread slices on baking sheet.
• Brush both sides of bread slices with 1/3 cup oil.
• Toast about 2 minutes per side.
• Cool.
• Serve with spread.
• A combination of dried thyme, basil, savory and fennel seeds can be substituted for herbes de Provence.

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• PREPARING CLAY POTS: Cut one 14-in. square of aluminum foil. Turn large clay pot upside down and press foil over the bottom as smoothly as possible. Remove shaped foil., Turn pot right side up and firmly press foil into pot and against all sides. Trim excess foil around rim. Crumple a large piece of foil into a ball to fit inside pot to hold skewers upright, or fill pot with florist foam if desired. Hide foil ball or florist foam with alfalfa sprouts., Follow procedure for shaping foil for small pots, using eight 6-in. squares of foil. Or line pots with small beverage cups (the rims of the cups may need to be trimmed to fit inside pots)., Make desired amount of vegetable flowers to fill large pot according to directions that follow (see note)., SQUASH FLOWER: Place the larger round end of the squash on a cutting board. Using a sharp knife, make three to four downward angular cuts about 1-1/2 in. above the larger end of the squash toward the center (see Fig. 1a). Gently twist end to separate. Make a small hole in the flower center with the knife to insert the green onion flower. Repeat with stem end., To make flower center, trim the root a green onion. Using a small scissors or sharp knife, cut lengthwise slits, 1/8 to 1/4 in. apart and 1 in. long, on the root end (Fig. 1b). Place in a bowl of ice water to curl. Insert into the hole in the center of the squash. Insert a skewer into the green part of the onion to make, stem. Cut up any remaining squash to serve with dip., CUCUMBER FLOWER: Peel and cut cucumber into 1/2-in.-thick slices. Using a 2-in. scalloped cookie cutter, cut slices into "flowers". Using an apple corer or knife, cut a hole in center of a cucumber "flower". Peel and cut carrot into 1/2-in.-thick slices and place in the hole in cucumber "flower". Insert a skewer through a petal to center of each flower. Serve any extra cucumber and carrot slices with dip. , RADISH FLOWER: Using the tip of a sharp knife, make pointed petals using 10 to 12 angled downward cuts around the outer red skin, keeping radish joined at the base (see Fig. 2 above right). , Using the knife tip, carefully loosen the petals from the white center inside. Place in a bowl of ice water until the petals open. Insert skewer into the bottom of the radish., MUSHROOM FLOWER: Using the tip of a small sharp knife and starting from the top center, score downward in a spiral pattern to the edge of the cap, removing a small amount of mushroom with each cut (Fig. 3)., Continue around the mushroom cap in a spiral pattern. Sprinkle mushroom with lemon juice to prevent browning. Insert skewer into bottom of mushroom., PEARL ONION FLOWER: You may use white or red onions or some of both. (If red pearl onions are not available, you can tint white ones after cutting them as directed below. To do so, add three drops of red and blue food coloring to ice water and let cut onion soak until desired hue is obtained.), Peel outer skin, leaving root end intact.Using a small sharp knife, make cuts halfway down toward the root end all around the onion. Place onion in hot water for 5 minutes, then place in ice water to make it "bloom." Insert skewer through bottom of each onion flower., TOMATO ROSE: Using a sharp knife, start at the smooth end and slowly remove the skin of a cherry tomato in one long continuous strip, about 1/2 in. wide.With the fleshy part inside, start to curl skin from the base end, forming into a rose., FINISHING: Cover skewers with green onion tops and arrange in the large clay pot. Place squash flowers and tomato roses on individual plates. Fill lined small clay pots with 3-4 tablespoons of Vegetable Dip (recipe below)., Garnish dip-filled pots with dill sprigs if desired., Vegetable Dip: In a bowl, combine cream cheese, mayonnaise and sour cream; mix well. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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• In medium bowl, mix dip ingredients; cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour to blend flavors.
• Serve with dippers; cover and refrigerate any remaining dip.

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• Mix sour cream, mayonnaise, onion, parsley, dill, and seasoned salt in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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• Mix everything together and chill.

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• Stir together sour cream, mayonnaise, parsley, chives, garlic, salt, and pepper in a bowl until combined well. Chill dip, covered, until slightly thickened, at least 1 hour (for flavors to develop).
• Serve dip with vegetables.

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• In large bowl combine sour cream, chilies, cilantro, salsa, garlic, chili powder, lime peel, salt and bottled hot pepper sauce. Cover and chill overnight. Serve with vegetable dippers.

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• Combine the first 6 ingredients; mix well. Cover and refrigerate. Serve with vegetables.