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
its not right to read such a post while stuck in a hotel in Toluca Mexico without a stove and my cast iron pan in shipment somewhere between Michigan and here…I so love spinach dip
Oh, this looks so good – and I’m with you on the eating disorder that involves cheesy goodness and crusty bread!
This looks friggin amazing. Your story about your brother messing with your recipe cracked me up.
Oh that’s no secret about the edges. *DROOL*
That’s cool he gave you a quicker way. I admit I could inhale the whole thing myself also, mostly because it has spinach in it and I can never get enough of that!
THat spinach dip looks good! I will have to try adding water chestnuts next time.
OK, I am making this tomorrow, seriously. I have almost all the ingredients anyhow. Why not!!!!! Looks fab guys. wow, that sounded 80s.
Happy Sunday!
Water chestnuts! Love that crunch. It’s so different.
That looks amazing, and as luck would have it I have all those ingredients sitting in my cupboard. I also just got the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day book and the bread is mindblowingly good (I just ate a whole boule by myself, which unintentionally became my dinner).
I wasn’t planning on doing much for the superbowl, but now I might have to invite people over. Then again I guess I could just eat all the bread and dip myself:-)
Ooohhhh, yes, yes, yes! And I like to tell myself that eating a dip like this is actually good for me because of all that healthy spinach. Is is, isn’t it?
water chestnuts, eh? great addition to a classic binge food.
did i just admit that? 🙂
Oh yes, I would eat this until every drop was gone myself! Great photos!
DIP! I love spinach dip! Making it on the stovetop is genius!
Hey guys, check your email please and find out what a dumbass I am.
Lisa
I don’t think THIS is going to help me lose 10 post-holiday pounds!
OKAY … I am sure our superbowl invite is lost in the mail! And I am certain this dip should be shoveled into my MOUTH right now! WOW, I LUV spinach dip- and more than I, my step mom loves it even more and I am passing this along to her – she will shout you out & hug you BIG for this one!!!
Like you, I love all things hot and cheesy. hats off to your brother, who’s got a winning recipe here!
Hmm… It appears Bro is also quite a cooking genius! Hee hee. Have a great weekend Todd and Diane! Go (insert your team here)! I have no idea how I’ll assimilate on Sunday, ha ha 🙂