Clam Dip Recipes

Clam dips are one of the most tastiest dips, not only because of the ingredients used to make the recipe, but also because of the unique flavor of clam itself. Clam dip is generally used with crackers, but you can also try it with various other recipes. The ingredients used in clam dip recipes vary, but the most commonly used ingredients are sour cream and cheese. Given below are recipes for a clam dip with tasty variations. So if you do not have one ingredient of a particular recipe, you can simply move to the next!

Hot Clam Dip
Ingredients

• 1 tsp hot pepper sauce
• 2 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 2 tbs grated onion
• 2 tbs beer
• 3 (6.5 ounce) cans minced clams, drained
• tsp salt
• 1 (20 ounce) loaf round French bread
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Process

Preheat the oven to 120 degrees C. Now take the bread and cut the top off the bread, make it hollow, leaving about a 2 inch shell. The remaining half of the bread that you pull off, reserve it. Take a bowl and add onion, cream cheese, Worcestershire sauce, beer, salt, hot pepper sauce and lemon sauce; beat well. When well mixed, add in clams. Mix well and then pour the mixture inside the hollowed bread bowl, cover it with the bread top and wrap the loaf in aluminum foil. Bake in the preheated oven for about 3 hours. You can use the leftover bread which was torn from inside the loaf, to make bread cubes. Toast those bread cubes with the dip when 5 minutes of the baking are left. This is a delicious recipe of clam dip in bread bowl.

Baked Clam Dip
Ingredients

• cup Italian style breadcrumbs
• 5 garlic cloves minced
• cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 tbs chopped fresh parsley
• 1 tbs dried oregano
• 6 tbs butter
• 1 tsp paprika for color
• 2 (6 oz) cans minced clams, (do not drain the juice)
• 1 medium onion, minced

Process

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Take a medium-sized pan, saut garlic, onion and butter for about a 1-2 minutes, over medium heat. Do not let the garlic turn brown. Now add clams along with the juice, lemon juice, oregano and parsley, mix well. Fry for a few minutes before adding cheese and breadcrumbs, mix until the texture becomes like paste, if the texture is not attained, add more breadcrumbs. Once done, put the mixture in an ovenproof pie dish and season with paprika. Bake in the preheated oven for about 25-30 minutes, until golden. Serve warm. This is not only a baked dip recipe, it is also a clam dip recipe with breadcrumbs.

Clam Dip with Sour Cream
Ingredients

• 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tbs chopped green onions
• 1/8 tsp black pepper
• Crackers, cocktail bread or potato fries
• 2 tbs cocktail sauce
• Green onion strips
• 1 (8 ounce) light sour cream
• 1 (6 ounce) can minced clams, drained

Process

Take a medium-sized bowl and add sour cream, 2 tbs green onions, clams, Worcestershire sauce and pepper in it. Mix well and cover. Refrigerate until all the ingredients get blended well. When blended well, remove from the refrigerator and spoon into a shallow plate. Season with swirl cocktail sauce. You can also garnish with green onion strips to get the best clam dip with sour cream.

These were some tasty clam dip recipes, now you need not keep wondering how to make clam dip. If you wish to, you can make variations in the above recipes, however make sure that the base is the same.