This creamy pumpkin dip straddles the road between candy and savory in one of the simplest ways. It’s a seasonal riff on my recipe for Baked Goat Cheese that comes with pumpkin purée and pumpkin spice. In the event you take pleasure in pumpkin and goat cheese individually, I’m assured you’ll love this recipe!
The important thing flavors on this dip are goat cheese, cream cheese, pumpkin purée, pumpkin spice and honey. Then we ramp up the savory aspect with one clove of garlic, salt, pepper and pink pepper flakes (elective, for some warmth).
We’ll mix these elements in a meals processor, switch the combination to a small baking dish and drizzle with some further honey. Bake till heat and golden for a beautiful autumnal appetizer or snack.
Since this recipe requires a comparatively small quantity of pumpkin purée, it’s the proper recipe to make with leftovers out of your pumpkin bread or pumpkin muffins.
How you can Serve Savory Pumpkin Dip
Take pleasure in this pumpkin dip between guests from Halloween trick-or-treaters, and serve it at your football watch party or as a Thanksgiving appetizer. It makes a satisfying mild meal with a inexperienced salad, like this seasonal spinach salad or a simple lemony kale salad.
For dipping, attempt crostini, toasted slices of sourdough bread, pita chips or toasted pita wedges. For a gluten-free choice, attempt sturdy crackers and huge strips of recent pink bell pepper. Olives and light-weight pink wine, like pinot noir, are beautiful accompaniments.
For an entire celebration unfold, serve this dip with hummus, a cheese board, sweet and spicy nuts, or Gaby’s Roasted Beets and Labneh.
Leftover pumpkin?
This recipe requires 1/4 cup pumpkin purée. You’ll have over 1 cup left over from the can, which is loads for the next pumpkin recipes:
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Baked Pumpkin Dip with Goat Cheese
This pumpkin dip recipe straddles the road between candy and savory! Pumpkin purée blended with goat cheese and pumpkin spice makes an irresistible dip. Recipe yields about 2 cups, sufficient for 4 to six appetizer servings.
- Preheat the oven to 425 levels Fahrenheit with a rack within the higher third of the oven.
- In a meals processor, mix the goat cheese, cream cheese, pumpkin purée, honey, garlic, salt, pepper, and pink pepper flakes (if utilizing).
- Course of till the combination comes collectively fully and is calmly whipped, about 2 minutes, pausing to scrape down the edges and base as essential. The combination will ball up within the meals processor and ultimately easy itself out. If doubtful, course of a bit of longer.
- Style and regulate as essential—add one other pinch of pink pepper flakes for extra warmth, or one other teaspoon or two of honey in case you’d prefer it sweeter (we’ll drizzle it with extra honey subsequent, so the completed dip can be a bit of sweeter than you’re tasting now).
- Switch the dip to a small oven-safe baking dish with a 3- to 4-cup (1 quart) capability. Unfold it evenly throughout the bottom of the dish, leaving some texture on high. Drizzle it with 1 teaspoon of further honey.
- Bake the dip on the higher rack for 13 to fifteen minutes, till the highest is popping calmly golden in locations and effervescent and puffed across the edges. Drizzle it with one other teaspoon or two of honey, and let it cool for about 5 minutes (it’s sizzling). Serve along with your desired accompaniments.
Notes
Make it gluten free: The dip is gluten-free, so select gluten-free accompaniments like crackers.
Cream cheese observe: The cream cheese makes this dip extra creamy and luscious. With out it, the pumpkin and spice flavors style bolder, which you would possibly love in case you’re an enormous fan. I did not have to let the cream cheese or goat cheese heat to room temperature earlier than mixing them in my Cuisinart meals processor.
Vitamin
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