Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Recipe: Buffalo Chicken Dip

Our first episode has been edited and almost ready for upload! Here is the first recipe: Buffalo Chicken Dip.

5 Cups cook chicken, shredded
1 bottle (12 oz) hot sauce.
1.5 Cups Diced Celery (about 4 stalks)
16 oz cream cheese (1 large tub or two blocks)
1 8oz bottle Ranch dressing
Shredded mexican cheese blend

In a pan, toss chicken and hot sauce. Add celery and mix. Add cream cheese and allow it to melt. Add ranch dressing and stir until well combined. Transfer to a 9x13 glass baking pan. Back at 350 degrees for at least 30 minutes. Allow to cool at least 20 minutes before serving.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Recipe: Hummus

8 cloves garlic
2 cans chick peas. Drained and rinsed, fluid reserved
Juice of 2 lemons (6 tbsp)
1/2 cup reserved chick pea juice
3 tbsp tahini (check in the internation section of the super market with indian or middle eastern food. Or by the olives)
2 tbsp+ extra virgin olive oil
pinch of salt

In a food processor, combine garlic, chick peas, tahini, salt, 2 tbsp olive oil and half of your liquid ingredients. Process and taste. Add more lemon juice if it tasts too bland, reserved chick pea juice if too sour, or olive oil if the mouth feel is too gritty. When taste and consistency are right, transfer to bowl and drizzle olive oil on top.

Sever with pita, fresh vegetables, etc.

Recipe: Crab Dip recipe

16 oz cream cheese
6 to 8 dashes hot sauce
3 to 4 tbsp worcestershire sauce
3 to 4 tbsp old bay seasoning
1 can crab meat
1/4 cup parmesan cheese, plus more for topping
1 cup shredded italian cheese blend, plus more for topping.

Begin melting cream cheese in pan of medium-low heat. Add the next three ingredients. Visually, it should appear as if you've applied enough worchestershire sauce and old bay to cover the cream cheese in a thin coat. Add crab meat and stire. Add cheese and stir until smooth.

Transfer to broiler safe serving dish. Cover with reserved cheese and broil with rack in first or second position until cheese has melted and has started to turn brown, 5 to 8 minutes.

Serve with Pita bread, pita chips, crackers, etc.