Sunday, January 10, 2010

A Delicious Dip to start the New Year! + Update



Today we're trying crack dip, also known as buffalo chicken dip. We couldn't find any buffalo sauce, so we're using hot barbecue sauce. Firstly, here's the recipe:

8 ounce package of cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup ranch salad dressing
1/4 cup blue cheese salad dressing (either of the salad dressings may substitute the other if you do not care for blue cheese or ranch salad dressing)
1/2 cup buffalo sauce or buffalo style barbecue sauce
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese (shredded mozzarella cheese can be substituted)
2 cans chicken breast (one can use rotisserie chicken, chicken breast, etc, in lieu of the canned variety)


Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. In a baking dish, mix cream cheese, salad dressings, buffalo sauce, and cheese. Stir until combined. Stir in chicken.
Bake uncovered for 20-25 minutes, until the dish is heated through. Serve with what is your preference, tortilla chips, hard bread, vegetables, etc.
We also sprinkled cheese on the top of ours.

So was it good?
Andrew's Review: It was great! The taste is a little surprising, from its appearance you would think it would be more cheesy, meaty, and salty, but it's actually tangy. The hot barbecue sauce didn't come through strongly, but overall I really liked it.
Lacey's Review: I think next time we will find the buffalo sauce. To me, it tastes a bit like barbecued chips, but tangier. It was delicious, but not my favorite.

Update

So I had lied to make Andrew feel better earlier; the past one was actually really really really bad. We remade it today with the appropriate ingredients (aka actual Buffalo Wing sauce etc), and it was AWESOME!!! It's crazy how bad the hot barbecue sauce made it. We generally tweak our recipes, but that was one time it did NOT work out okay. So, new review: with the appropriate ingredients, it's amazing. If not, it's really really bad. Let's just say I couldn't even suck it up and eat it for the people who would have appreciated food.

Super Update!

So this time we made it with crumbled blue cheese instead of Mozzarella. Honestly, it tasted almost exactly the same...the real difference was texture. It was a lot thicker with Mozzerella...almost creamier, I suppose from the melted cheese! Blue cheese doesn't have that same thickness. It's still delicious :D
Andrew liked it best in this manner. I liked it best in the previous update (above). I like the texture more.

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