Artichokes A Fun Quick Healthy Veggie
hi, i'm ashlee marie and today we're making one of my family's favorite recipes, and that is spinach artichoke dip. don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of the fall comfort foods that we have coming up. and let's get started. the first thing we're going to do is fry the green onions and the garlic, so let's start by milk and butter. maybe i shouldn't turn that on first. we're going to add the green onions and the garlic. alright now, as soon as that garlic starts getting fragrant you know that it's done. you don't want to overcook the onions or the garlic. in fact, you can just throw them in the dip raw, but i find that that raw onion changes the flavor and i really like it when you kind of sautã© the onion and garlic just a little bit. now, one of my favorite things about spinach dip is actually the artichoke hearts. now i prefer artichoke
hearts that have been canned in oil. i feel they give a lot better flavor. so you want about 30 to 33 ounces, and you want to just chop them up. now if some of their outer skins are a little bit hard, and you're not going to eat those, i just pull those off before i chop. and now for the main component of spinach dip and that is the spinach. now you can use frozen spinach if you like. i just like using everything fresh. but if we use this fresh spinach in the spinach dip, as it heats up, it's going to bring out a bunch of juice from the spinach and you're going to end up with a really liquidy spinachy spinach dip. so the first thing that we're going to do is rinse this and then squeeze out all the extra juice. as you can see, it shrinked quite a bit when we did this. now we're just going to go through here and chop it up. now that everything's chopped, all that's left to do is just to put it all in a bowl and mix it. now you can hand mix it, but
personally, i like using my mixer whenever i can just to make it easy. so, especially something like cream cheese, trying to blend in really smooth. artichoke parts, all the spinach, the green onions, garlic and butter, mayonnaise, sour cream. now we add the cheeses, parmesan cheese. and you want to add a little bit more cheese, you can go with kind of any cheese you want. you can go with monterey jack, mozzarella, a sharp cheddar. i like a smoked cheddar for that smoky effect, but just pick a favorite cheese. and of course, some salt and pepper. and then you can do some tabasco sauce, or personally i like these chinese oils, so i do about half a teaspoon of that. we're going to mix it all together. and then just pour the mixture into some sort of casserole dish. take some foil and cover it up. and then we're going to heat it in the oven at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes, and i stop and stir at about the 20-
minute mark. it's out of the oven, it's warm. it smells amazing. i cannot wait to dig into it. now i serve this with chips. hmm. and salsa and sour cream, because never have too much sour cream. hmm. so good. cheesy with great flavor. my kids love these with tortillas. it's hard to go wrong with a good spinach artichoke dip. so, let me know if you give it a try, and comments down below. don't forget to subscribe. we have a lot of fun comfort foods coming up for the fall, my favorite time of year. and let me know if there's another recipe you'd like to see. thanks for watching.
