Pizza Dip

 A few years ago, there was another great blogging group called the Secret Recipe Club.   In that group, we were assigned a blog to find and make a recipe from.    I found this recipe for a Pizza Dip and, sadly, have only made it a couple of times since, but I think it's well worth a repeat. 

 Especially since the Super Bowl is coming up, and a good dip is always a welcome addition. 😉 I'm not hosting Tapas once a month anymore, but have been known to go to a Super Bowl party, and you know you can't go empty-handed.  Even though I just watch it for the commercials. 

The theme this week for the Sunday Funday bloggers is Pizza.  

Amy of Amy's Cooking Adventures is our hostess, she suggested: 

Let's make pizza!

Share your favorite homemade pizza or a twist on pizza using classic pizza ingredients in another dish!

I decided it was time to remake this Pizza Dip.   It's a little bit much for a single person, so I cut it way down and enjoyed it as my dinner one night.    And one of the best parts of this is that you can make it ahead of time, as in the day before, put a cover over it, and bake it the day of.   

The first time I made it, I served it with some Naan.   This time round, I ate and enjoyed it with some Ciabatta bread I'd made.  

Now that I've got that out of the way.   I also had a bit of a happy accident with the dip.    I didn't have any small dishes that I could put in the oven, so I pulled out a small fry pan, all of 6 inches wide, and put my dip in it, then placed it into my little toaster oven to bake.  AND YUM!!!!  The cheese on the bottom of the dip, came out lovely and crusty and I'm now very happy with doing it this way.    In other words, I'll probably bake it in a cast iron pan the next time I make it. 

I was having some issues with my phone, well, with a couple of apps (Norton and TikTok, I'm looking at you),  that had decided to Hijack my phone, and didn't get any pictures as I was mixing this up.  However, after I applied some judicious 'thumping' to the phone, it finally decided that maybe it could behave, at least for a bit.  I'll be stopping in at my provider soon to have them fix the issue, if they can.  

I had some chopped peppers, onions and mushrooms in the freezer, so I pulled them out, mixed them in with some pepperoni

and topped the cream cheese mixture with it, and then dumped, added lots of cheese to the top and baked it.  I don't measure cheese, usually, just eyeball it and dump.  😜

And there was just enough there for my dinner.  

I'm not super fond of pizza, but I have to say that the balance of flavors here was pretty darn tasty.   

My late husband would have loved it, one of his favorite meals was pizza.  And I'm not sure but, I think that if you don't enjoy it on some bread, it may actually qualify as a Keto meal, ie: Pizza.  

Pizza Dip

Yield: 8-10

Author: Sid's Sea Palm Cooking adapted from many recipes

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 20 MinTotal time: 35 Min

This is a great dip for Super Bowl, or anytime you need to bring a dip to share.

Ingredients

• 8oz. package low fat cream cheese
• 6oz. container 0 % fat Greek Yoghurt
• 1/2 teaspoon Garlic powder
• 1 tsp Italian seasoning
• 1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese
• 1 cup prepared pizza sauce
• 1 cup shredded Italian style Cheese mix
• 1/2 cup chopped vegetables and/or cooked meats (I used a combo of Mushrooms, Green Pepper, and Black Olives, and some sliced Pepperoni)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, sour cream, Parmesan cheese, garlic, and Italian seasoning using an electric mixer.
3. Top the cream cheese mixture with pizza sauce and spread evenly to cover.
4. Sprinkle Cheese evenly over both sides.
5. Sprinkle vegetables on one side and meats and veggies if using a divided dish. I used a combo of  Mushrooms, onions and Peppers for the veggies, and some sliced pepperoni for the meat side. I added an additional 1/2 cup of so of cheese over the veggies and meat.
6. Bake 20 minutes or so, until the cheese is melted.

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Take a gander at what some of the other bloggers made.  

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• Sneha's Recipe: Keto Cottage Cheese Pizza 
• Food Lust People Love: Leftover Pizza Pizza Salad 
• Sids Sea Palm Cooking: Pizza Dip 
• Karen's Kitchen Stories: Potato and Rosemary Pizza 
• Mayuri's Jikoni: Puff Pastry Pizza Pockets 
•  Amy's Cooking Adventures: Roasted Garlic Alfredo Pizza 
• Culinary Cam: The Elusive, Enjoyable Gluten-Free Pizza 
• Sizzling Tastebuds: Turkish Pide