Dips

Posted by Gabby on Aug 23, 2009 in Appetisers, Recipes, Snacks | 0 comments

Sometimes all those nibbles we offer before a meal dampen the appetite and add inches to the waist. I have been considering combining nibbles and hors d’oeuvres and offering a healthier start to entertaining.

Serve with a selection of vegetables from: battons of carrot, celery, red, green & yellow peppers, cucumber, courgettes; florets of cauliflower and broccoli, cherry tomatoes, mange tout peas, prawns, crab sticks.

Devil’s Dip

1oz butter
3tbs white flour
½ level tsp curry powder
½ pint of milk and vegetable stock
½ level tsp cayenne pepper
2tsp wine vinegar

Make a white sauce and then add the other ingredients and allow to cool. My recipe from a wedding we catered for in the 1978, hence the quantity (which I have halved) and the addition of ¼pt cream. If the consistency needed adjusting I would now add creme fraiche. Allow to cool.

Garlic Dip

2tbs mayonnaise
2 -3 cloves of pressed garlic
1tbs crème fraiche
Salt and pepper

Mix the ingredients together and season to taste.

Pimento Dip

4 oz cream cheese
1tbs crème fraiche
Red and green peppers, finely chopped

Blend all the ingredients together and season to taste.

Simple Marie Rose Sauce

2tbs mayonnaise
1tbs tomato ketchup
1tbs dry sherry
pinch of caster sugar

Blend all the ingredients together and season to taste.

Blue Cheese Dip

2tbs mayonnaise
1tbs crème fraiche
2 oz crumbled blue cheese
seasoning

Blend all the ingredients together

Cucumber Dill Dip

¼ cucumber
2tbs crème fraiche
1 tsp dried dill
Seasoning and a squeeze of lemon is optional, to give a sourer flavour.

Degorge the cucumber, grate finely onto a piece of kitchen towel and squeeze out the juice, add the crème fraiche and dried dill. Season to taste.

About Gabby

Gabrielle Hall has written 31 posts on this blog.

We live in the French Basque Country in a house with about an acre of garden/woodland allowing us to continue, in retirement, a life focussed on self sufficiency. We both love cooking and always try to give our family and friends food that we have produced.

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