Creamy Stovetop Spinach Dip
This Stove Top Spinach Dip recipe is a reader favorite since 2009. One of my brothers inspired this stovetop version and ever since, hot spinach dip has never been the same for us. It is so good!
Stove Top Spinach Dip Recipe
I’m admitting that I have an eating issue when it comes to anything warm, rich, cheesy and gooey. Add a bold red glass of wine and a crusty baguette, I’ll inhale a big bowl of any cheese dip that was accidentally left in front of me.
It’s not often that I make my appetizer dips outside of the oven. The slow, warm love that the oven lathers on to my cheese dip is amazing and there’s no substitution to how well the oven melts everything together.
But when my brother #2, who also happens to be my #1 dip fan, made one of my appetizer dips on the stove top, I screamed out loud in dip mutiny. How could he rip apart my recipe and cook it in 10 minutes in a FRYING PAN?! I’ve always nurtured all my dips in the oven for about one hour and patiently waited out the long bake time. The results for my dip recipes were always so wonderful that I never, ever considered changing my cooking technique. Why mess with perfection?
“It’s good, try it,” he told me. Brother #2 has always been a quiet, gentle guy of few words. So when he made the effort to share his ideas, it was powerful enough to convince me to pull out my cast iron pan, think out side of the oven and give my warm spinach dip a try via the stove top.
Quick and Easy Spinach Dip in 10 Minutes
Lo and behold, he was right on the money. I made my spinach dip in a frying pan and within 10 minutes I had a rich, cheesy, beautifully melted and flavored dip that rivaled the 60 long minutes of oven cooking. I couldn’t believe how fast, and well combined all the ingredients came together in the frying pan. The flavors of this spinach dip were actually BETTER in this stove top method because I was able to caramelize the onions and garlic until they became fragrant. The oven version never had that same caramelized epiphany.
I’m completely hooked to my brothers fast technique on this spinach dip and am thankful for his bachelor style cooking methods. But I blame him for making me eat this spinach dip more often because it’s so EASY! Thanks Bro!
– Diane
Stove-top Spinach Dip
Ingredients
- 10 oz. (284 g) package frozen chopped spinach , thawed & squeezed dry of excess water
- 8 oz. (227 g) canned water chestnuts , drained & chopped
- 8 oz. (227 g) cream cheese
- 1 cup (100 g) freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons (22 ml) grapeseed or olive oil
- 1 medium onion , minced
- 3 cloves garlic , minced
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) milk
- 1/4 cup (56 g) mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) salt
- lots of fresh cracked black pepper to taste
- crusty bread or crackers
Instructions
- Over medium heat, heat oil in large saucepan. Then add onions and garlic. Saute until fragrant and light golden brown.
- Add spinach and water chestnuts and continue to saute for a minute or two or until the spinach and chestnuts are heated through. Add salt and pepper
- Add milk, cream cheese, grated Parmesan cheese and mayo. When cheese melts, turn down heat to low.
- Continue stirring and allow dip to simmer until cheese and rest of ingredients are blended well together. Add additional salt/pepper to personal taste.Serve warm with bread and/or crackers.
Nutrition Information per Serving
More Easy Dip Recipes:
- kiwi margarita pairs great with this dip
- try our stove top crab dip
- creamy avocado dip
I’m crazy about those cheese dips also. So now you tell me that I can make this in 10 min. I know what I’ll be making this week-end.
i love spinach dip. it is so unapologetically bad for you and deliciously indulgent at the same time. yours looks lovely.
Diane- I’ve taken up parenting five little boys as my post cheese dip eating gluttony guilt buster. I’ll fight you for some of this 😉
Well, I think I share your eating disorder too……. nice dip
Mmmmm. Methinks some goat cheese needs to find its happy little way into that dip as well….Would it be to egregious to just spread that on bread and make a big, fat sammich?!
Wow, this looks so delicious! I love these types of dips, so thick, cheesy, and yummy. Never knew stovetop dips took so little time; I would have expected like a 20 minute cooking time.
Sigh, I want to come over to your house for your spinach dip (and not the Super Bowl, just the dip). And making it on the stovetop? Very innovative and much easier than baking!
I love this too too much 😉
sweetness!! superbowl food (check)
Diane and Todd,
This SuperBowl spinach dip is incredibly mouthwatering!!
I have the biggest weakness for any type of cheesy dips too, but I am not a good cook and I don’t have much patience to make time-consuming foods, so I resort to restaurants and grocery-stores :(! However, your brother’s idea to make the dip on a frying pan in 10 minutes is genius!! I am going to have to try this out for my SuperBowl Party.
Anyway, thanks for yet another great post. Please come check out some of our easy-to-make SuperBowl dip recipes at Celebrations.com, http://www.celebrations.com/Super-Bowl-recipes. I think you’ll really enjoy them 🙂
Hana
Contributor
http://www.celebrations.com
Oh yum! I think I’m going to need Mr. B to keep me from calling this dinner and skipping everything else! It does have vegetables in it… =)
Fantastic! Spinach dip is one of my favs.
Okay, now sprinkle on more cheese and broil until crusty. The corners fo the casserole are always the crusty best.
We were actually planning on making your awesome sweet onion dip for the superbowl, but maybe we’ll give this new one a try instead.
Oh, yum. Kudos to your brother for figuring out the quicker method, because, sometimes you just need it. (Like when you promised to bring an appetizer and forgot about it until you started to walk out the door. lol) Yes, it has happened to me. This dip would be the perfect answer!
Oooh, this looks delicious.