Name: Roasted Garlic Chip Dip, Cheesy Style
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 head garlic; 1 teaspoon olive oil; kosher salt; freshly ground black pepper; 1 cup Jarlsberg cheese (freshly grated); 1/2 cup mayo; 1/4 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt (or sour cream); 4 ounces cream cheese; 1 large shallot (diced small); 1/4 cup green onions (roughly chopped); kettle cooked potato chips (or your regular, for dipping)

Cards, chips, dips and dorks! (name the movie)

Whether it’s a football game, poker night or a movie and wine night with the girls, the chip and dip combo is the go-to and most unfussy form of entertainment snacking food.

And this dip has it ALL. And by “all” I of course mean cheese. Jarlsberg. Because it reminds me a lot of Gruyere and melts like a dream if you decided to, oh let’s simply say… sandwich it on some bread and maybe throw some sliced apples or pears and grill it. Oh yes. Jarlsberg is new cheese-love of my life and is permanently on my list of go-to cheeses. Yes I have a list.

For this Cheesy Roasted Garlic Dip Gather:

garlic
olive oil
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
Jarlsberg cheese
mayo
plain nonfat Greek yogurt
cream cheese
shallot
green onions
kettle cooked potato chips (or your regular), for dipping

Next start by cutting off the top third of 1 head of garlic, exposing the garlic. Then sprinkle the top of the garlic with salt, pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Lastly cover the baking dish with foil and popped it into a hot 400° oven to roast for about 40 minutes.

AHHHHHH. I wish you could smell this!

Then squeeze head of garlic (once it had cooled down a bit) and removed any hard-to-get cloves with a fork.

Next, take a fork and mashed the bejesus out of ’em. Fun. Times.

Then, in a medium bowl I combined; 1/2 cup mayo, 1/4 cup of Greek yogurt and 4 ounces of cream cheese (softened at room temperature) and mixed those until smooth and silky.

Next, on your box grater, I grated a glorious heaping 1 cup of Jarlsberg.

Thenadd it all to the bowl. Keep goin’ it gets better.

Next, slice up 1/4 cup of green onions and finely diced up 1 large shallot.

Then I added those into the bowl along with the smashed roasted garlic.

“Lord help me from devouring this bowl of welcome cheesy-shalloty-garlicky-goodness. Please forgive me for consuming an entire bag of kettle chips (as you know those are the dependable chips for dipping) and if you would be so kind as to grant me only one wish, I wish that this Cheesy Roasted Garlic Chip Dip does not find its way straight to my hips. Amen.”

But this was after I seasoned it with salt and pepper annnd only before I ate almost the entire bag of chips.

Ohhhhh this dip is GOOOD! Creamy, garlicky and entirely addicting. It reminds me of the old-school French onion dip but with a cheesy nutty twist. This dip will surely make for an excellent appetizer for any festivity!