This decadent Baked 3 Cheese Spinach and Artichoke Dip recipe is loaded with three cheeses and baked to bubbly perfection. It always leaves my guests begging for more after scraping the bowl clean.
Irresistible Baked 3 Cheese Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Category Dips and Sauces Party Food
This decadent Baked 3 Cheese Spinach and Artichoke Dip recipe is loaded with three cheeses and baked to bubbly perfection. It always leaves my guests begging for more after scraping the bowl clean.
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons – Butter/ Oil
- 4 cloves – garlic, grated
- 1 cup – Onion, chopped
- One 6oz bag – Fresh spinach leaves, chopped
- 14 oz – Artichoke hearts in water
- 1/2 Teaspoon – Pepper
- Salt, to taste
For cheese sauce
- 3 Tablespoons – Butter
- 4 tablespoons – All-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups – Milk
- 4 oz– Cream cheese
- 1 Cup – Pepper jack cheese, grated
- 3/4 Cup – Mozzarella cheese, grated
- 1/2 Teaspoon – Pepper
- Salt, to taste
Topping
- 1/2 Cup – Mozzarella cheese, grated
Instructions
- Take a heavy bottomed skillet and melt the butter.
- Add garlic and cook for 1 minute until fragrant.
- Add onions and saute them until they become translucent.
- Add spinach and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Cook spinach until most of the water from spinach evaporates
- Add artichokes and then cook for another 2-3 minutes
- Take the skillet of the heat and set it aside
- For the cheese sauce, melt butter in a pan.
- Add the flour and whisk to form a paste/ roux and cook for a minute. This takes out the raw taste of the flour
- Pour milk into the roux whisking it continuously in order to avoid lumps of flour.
- Simmer the mixture until the sauce thickens
- Add cream cheese, pepper jack and mozzarella and mix well
- Season with salt and pepper
- Mix in the spinach artichoke mixture and transfer it to a baking dish
- Top with grated mozzarella cheese and bake at 350F for 20 minutes.
- If you want your cheese to brown on top, turn of the broiler for 2-5 minutes
- Serve warm with your favorite chips
Recipe and Photo: Life Scoops / CC BY
