Pesto Cream Cheese Dip

4.50 (3)
⏱ 70 mins 🍽 12 serving(s) 🌶 italian 🏷 < 4 Hours

This creamy Italian dip combines soft cream cheese with classic pesto sauce for a rich, flavourful base. It is enhanced with grated Parmesan cheese, chopped ripe olives and diced pimento for added texture and savoury notes. The mixture is chilled to allow the flavours to meld beautifully. Ideal for gatherings, it yields enough for 12 servings and requires just over an hour of total preparation time, most of which is hands-off chilling.

Pesto Cream Cheese Dip

Ingredients

  • 1 (8 ounce) container philadelphia soft cream cheese spread
  • 1/3 cup prepared pesto sauce
  • 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
  • 1 tablespoon chopped pitted ripe olives
  • 1 tablespoon diced pimento

Method

  1. Combine the soft cream cheese spread with the prepared pesto sauce and grated Parmesan cheese.
  2. Stir in the chopped pitted ripe olives and the diced pimento.
  3. Place the dip in the refrigerator to chill for at least one hour.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium146200 mg

Recipe details

Category< 4 Hours
Cuisineitalian
Authornvermd