What screams Valentine’s Day? Chocolates, truffles, candied hearts, pickle dip. Pickle dip? Yes, only here at EE would be be celebrating Heart’s and Flower’s Day with a piquant and tart recipe.
I have seen some delicious looking pickle dips making the rounds recently. You can find some of them here, here, and here.
I wanted to jump on the band wagon and play around with this idea a bit. I planned to do an appetizer spread for The Hubs to celebrate Valentine’s Day. We love us some peppers so I thought an adaptation would be appropriate.
Peperoncini Pepper Dip
based on JASON ASHLEY’S DILL PICKLE DIP (Tulsa World, January 30, 2014)1 (8 oz.) pkg. 1/3 less fat cream cheese
1/4 c. pickled sliced peperoncini peppers, chopped
3 T. pickling juice (from jarred peppers)
1 dash white pepper
1 dash cayenne
1/2 t. dried dill weedMix all ingredients in a bowl with a hand-held mixer or stand mixer. Place in serving bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least one hour. Garnish with more peppers.
Note: For more heat, use a hotter variety of peppers. This would also be great using herbed olives in place of the peppers and throwing in some fresh herbs like thyme and rosemary. (Notice that I included a “hand-held mixer” here. I recently was made aware that a major pet peeve of some foodies was when recipes called for a stand mixer only. 🙂
Serve with crackers, veggies, or very unhealthy (but delicious) ridged potato chips. (This dip is pretty tasty with Fritos as well.) 🙂
Happy Valentine’s Day.
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Comments & Replies
18 responses to “Peperoncini Pepper Dip”
Had enough sweets last few weeks, so I will make some roasted potatoes for my husband.This will be a perfect sauce to go with them.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
You are so right; this would make a great sauce for potatoes.
Great photos and I love this version with the peperoncini and cayenne. And darn you, now I’m going to be craving potato chips and dip. 🙂 Thanks so much for the link back to my recipe.
Sorry, Lea Ann. I will sometimes take savory over sweet any day.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you too! We’re right with you in celebrating with a table of yummy appetizers over desserts. I love, love, love finger food. I think the dip looks awesome.
Happy Heart and Flower Day!
I have (what we refer to at home) a chip tooth, I also have a sweet tooth but chips – forget it! Get out of my way if there are chips around. Can’t help myself. Oh, and you added a great dip to the mix here?! I may be able to walk to your home in record time for a plate of this…ahaha
I now know that I have a chip tooth, too!
I came {{{{this close}}}} to sharing a recipe for pickled cherries today, Debra. Tart for the sweet, I suppose. But, I didn’t. I sure am glad you did, I’m puckering already, lol…Although, I have sneaky feeling my lips wouldn’t have much time for puckering while I’m stuffing my face. I too am now craving chips and dip! Cool creativity going on here:) Thanks for sharing…Oh Happy Day!
I hope you do share that recipe, Louise. We definitely ODed on the sodium last night. 🙂
I’ve never seen a Peperoncini Pepper Dip! And I so, so love the idea! This looks wonderful — thanks.
It is pretty wonderful. Wonderful enough that I used it as a Valentine!!!
LOL, I love how you broke the mold by sharing a savory dip for Valentine’s Day! I bet it was wonderful!!!
It was tasty, just probably not the most romantic thing I’ve ever made.
This is right up my alley….love it.
We do too.
Yum! I love pepperoncinis but hadn’t thought to put them in a dip. I want to try this for sure!
Hope you do, Andi.