Fresh vegetable platter featuring a bowl of creamy herb dip surrounded by assorted raw vegetables including cucumbers, radishes, and carrots, perfect for healthy snacking or entertaining.
Appetizer Food Waste Free Recipes

Creamy Herb Dip

Recipe provided by Chef Joel Gamoran (@joelgamoran)

When making dishes with herbs, most recipes require the tedious task of picking leaves from the stems of the herbs.
But why just use the leaves when there is so much flavor still left in the stems? For one of my favorite appetizer dips, I make a creamy base and add in all those chopped herbs – including the stems. I like to finish it with garlic, lemon and Morton® Fine Pink Himalayan Salt because I love how it quickly dissolves into the dip for an even, balanced flavor. Served with a colorful side of crudité, this dip is sure to be a hit!

To Serve with: Crackers and crudité including carrots, radishes, endive leaves, cucumbers, sugar snap peas and more!
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Ingredients Instructions

Key Information

Dish Type

Appetizer

Time

Prep: 10 minutes

Difficulty

easy

Serves

4

Ingredient List

Ingredients and measurements.

  • 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • ¼ cup mayonnaise
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • ½ bunch parsley, roughly 1 cup
  • 3 sprigs of dill, leaves and stems
  • 1 sprig tarragon, leaves and stems
  • 10 chives
  • ½ lemon, zest and juice
  • ½ teaspoon Morton® Fine Pink Himalayan Salt

Cooking Instructions

Step-By-Step Cooking Information and Guidance

Step 1

To the base of a food processor, add the cream cheese, mayonnaise, and sour cream. Blend on high for 10-15 seconds, until fully combined.

Step 2

Add in the herbs, garlic, lemon juice, lemon zest, and Morton® Fine Pink Himalayan Salt. Run the food processor on high for 25-30 seconds until the herbs have been chopped and the dip turns a light green in color.

Step 3

Remove to a bowl and serve with fresh cut crudité or refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Fresh vegetable platter featuring colorful radishes, cucumbers, and carrots, accompanied by a creamy herb dip in a white bowl. The arrangement is set on a wooden table with a striped cloth, perfect for healthy snacking or entertaining.
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Tips For Success

Food Waste Tip:

Don’t waste time and money picking the leaves off herb stems, use the whole thing! Herbs have slightly different flavor profiles in the stems and leaves, so using both is like getting two flavors for the price of one! Also, when buying fresh herbs you often don’t use all of them for many recipes – so this recipe is a great way to get all of the flavor out of what you paid for!

Morton Products USED IN THIS RECIPE

Our products that bring this dish together
himalayan pink salt fine

Himalayan Pink Salt Fine 17.6 oz

All-Natural Pink Salt to Enhance Your Everyday Foods.   We’ve added Himalayan Pink Salt to our lineup so home chefs can add a pop of flavor—and color—to their dishes. Morton Himalayan Pink Salt is sourced directly from the Himalayan Mountains, which are rich in iron—that’s what gives the salt its famous and irresistible pink hue.

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