Caramelized Onion Cheese Dip
Caramelized onion cheese dip is a creamy dream of an appetizer. This caramelized onion dip features rich, fragrant onions cooked to perfection and baked into a blend of bubbly cheeses. A hit for parties and entertaining!
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Can we talk about dip for a second?
Dip is one of those supremely underrated foods. It deserves a lot more love than it gets, especially when the dip is this hot caramelized onion dip.
I mean really, what’s not to love?
Buttery, sweet caramelized onions that you could literally eat by the spoonful swimming in a smooth, creamy marscapone and Italian cheese sea.
Perfect, perfect, perfect!
Cue all the chef’s kisses and tortilla chip dunking!
This dip is good enough to eat right off a spoon but killer with some fresh bread.
We also decided that the dip is good warm or room temperature but not hot hot and that if you really want to do something over the top, you could definitely spread this on a homemade pizza crust and top with more cheese.
So much yes.
Aside from New Year’s Eve or holidays, you could definitely serve this for your Super Bowl or your Oscars party.
It’s a little fancy for some but for those of us that are there for the food, we would appreciate this cheesy goodness.
Admittedly, this is not a low maintenance dip. It’s sort of high maintenance but it’s worth it. You have to chop and caramelize the onions, which isn’t hard but does take a long time, standing in front of the stove stirring. I find it soothing, slowly caramelize onions, watching them turn a beautiful golden color and fill the kitchen with their intoxicating scent. It’s weird I know. It’s sort of like how I make risotto when I am stressed out for the same reason: the meditative stirring.
It definitely has nothing to do with the cheesy, carby deliciousness waiting at the end of the stirring. Nothing at all. But just like how I find shrimp risotto with garlicky kale to be worth the work, I think this caramelized onion cheese dip is too. The sweet and savory cheesy goodness just begs you to dip a hunk of bread in and enjoy.
Looking for other cheesy dips to enjoy? Try these:
Ingredients
- 1.5 pounds about 6 cups of sweet onions, sliced
- 4 tbs butter
- 6 cloves of garlic pressed
- 1/4 cup of white wine
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp red pepper
- 1/2 tsp sage
- salt and pepper to taste
- 16 ounces of marscapone cheese
- 8 ounces of shredded Italian cheese blend divided
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a medium cast iron pan over medium low heat. Add the sliced onion, salt, pepper, pressed garlic, sugar, and herbs. Cook over medium low heat, stirring consistently until the onion soften and begin to turn golden brown. Add wine in gradually, as liquid evaporates, add a little more. By the time the onions are beautifully golden (about 20 minutes) the full quarter cup should be added with a little liquid remaining in the pain.
- When onions are golden, add them to a bowl with 16 ounces of marscapone cheese and half of the shredded Italian cheese blend. Stir until thoroughly combined. Spoon back into a serving dish or cast iron pan. Top with additional cheese. Either serve room temperature or pop under the broiler for about 90 seconds to melt the top of the cheese. Serve with bread. Enjoy.
I love that you use marscapone! It sounds phenomenal & is officially on my list of things to make this weekend!
Thank you! Feel free to use cream cheese if you can’t find marscapone but I love how smooth marscapone is.
This looks so amazing! Great way to change things up and try something different than guac or salsa for parties!
This sounds so yummy! I love that it’s made in a cast iron skillet!
Cast iron is so versatile!
Ooh..yummy! I want to make this:)
Hands down, this is the single most scrumptious recipe I’ve come across all week! The ingredients, the presentation, the yummy flavors – they all look so amazing! I’m saving this delicious recipe for Super Bowl Sunday. 🙂
OMG thank you. What a nice thing to hear! 🙂 Hope you loved this. So so good.