Spicy Pickle Dip: 28 Days of Super Bowl Recipes
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Serves: 6-8
 
Ingredients
  • Generous 1 cup of sour cream
  • 4 ounces of cream cheese, softened
  • ¾-1 cup of chopped pickles, preferably a spicy or garlic variety (About 4-5 whole pickles depending on size.)
  • 3 tablespoons of pickle brine from the jar
  • 1-2 teaspoons of crushed red peppers
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1-2 tablespoons of fresh dill, chopped (optional, but highly recommended)
Instructions
  1. Chop up a few whole pickles.
  2. Decide you want even more pickles in your dip, so chop up another one.
  3. Mix everything in bowl.
  4. Cover and let rest in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours. This gives the dip a chance to firm back up, absorb the pickle brine and let garlic, dill and pepper flakes open up and permeate the cheese and sour cream.
  5. Garnish with a little more dill and serve with chips.
Notes
Many pickle dip recipes call for a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise. While that combination works for many taco dips and the like, I've found that cream cheese provides better consistency for the dip, especially when you need to add pickle juice to the mix. As we've said many times on this site, we're big fans of Rick's Picks NYC around this joint. Unfortunately when we made this batch, my local store had sold out of the Rick's garlic pickles I wanted. Fortunately Los Angeles is home to another pickle producer I really like, Kruergermann, who brought their pickle recipes over from Germany. Both their garlic pickles and their Hungarian spicy uborka pickles work great in this recipe. Don't have access to specialty pickles or don't live in an area with a large Eastern European population? Add a little more garlic and crushed pepper to the recipe.
Recipe by sarah sprague at https://sarahsprague.com/2012/01/11/spicy-pickle-dip-28-days-of-super-bowl-recipes/