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5 Ingredient Homemade Onion Dip

Get your chips ready for a flavor explosion! Throw away your mothers dried instant onion soup mix, you will never go back to that once you have tasted the flavor in this dip. The secret? Caramelized onions. The longer you cook them the more flavor you can extract.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
chill1 hour
Total Time2 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 8
Calories: 148kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 3 Onions
  • 8 Oz Sour Cream
  • 6 Tbs Butter
  • 1/4 Tsp Onion Powder
  • 1/2 Tsp Salt

Instructions

  • Slice the 3 medium to large sized onions take care to keep them all the same size
  • Heat the cast iron casserole dish over medium high heat
  • Add the 6 Tbs butter and let it melt
  • Scrape the onions into the melted butter (do not cover the casserole dish)
  • Add the 1/2 Tsp salt
  • Stir the onions distributing the salt
  • Lower the heat and let them become translucent
  • Once they are translucent, bring the heat to very low. Over the next 50-55 minutes is where utilizing your patience becomes important. These are going to smell so good, you will be tempted to not let them caramelize all the way.
  • Stir the onions occasionally in the first 20 minutes and a bit more often as they begin to brown. They are done when they turn a brown caramel color. When caramelizing onions some people cook them until the pan is brown and they have to scrape it. That would be fine for a different dish however for our dip we took the onions to the color of caramel.
  • Some of the oniony goodness will accumulate on the sides and the bottom, make sure you scrape all of this including any butter along with your caramelized onions into a mixing bowl.
  • Let the onions come to room temperature
  • Add the 1/4 Tsp onion powder and the 8 Oz. of sour cream and mix it all together
  • Place it into the refrigerator for at least one hour - The longer it sits the more flavor it will develop. This can be made a day ahead to achieve the maximum flavor.

Notes

Calories to not include the chips.
You could serve vegetables such as celery, carrots, bell pepper, with this dip.
If you want the dip to be more savory you can add a half of beef bullion cube to the onions

Nutrition

Calories: 148kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 223mg | Potassium: 99mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 440IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 0.1mg