Cream Cheese Spinach Dip Recipe

This delicious Cream Cheese Spinach Dip recipe is a wonderful way to use all of the fresh in-season spinach. Even if you don’t have any in your garden, you should be able to easily find the ingredients for this recipe to make a perfect afternoon snack.

Cream Cheese Spinach Dip Recipe

The other day my family had a BBQ to celebrate memorial day. I wanted to bring a dish I had never made before, so I made spinach dip made with cream cheese.

The great things about this dip is that it contains spinach! Spinach is an excellent source of beta-carotene, so we can pretend that this dip recipe is healthy, right?

Spinach also possesses several important phytochemicals, including lutein, which helps prevent age-related macular degeneration. Spinach also contains lipoic acid, which helps antioxidant vitamins C and E regenerate. It’s possible that it also helps regulate blood sugar levels.

And if that’s not enough, Spinach also is abundant in potassium which helps promote heart health and keeps muscles from cramping. When you cook spinach it gives it a boost of fiber as well. If you’d like to, you can read all about the health benefits of spinach here.

Are you ready to make this recipe yet?

Cream Cheese Spinach Dip

What You Need:

• 6 oz baby spinach leaves
• 1 TBSP butter
• 3oz cream cheese (slightly softened)
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup grated mozzarella
• salt & pepper & your favorite seasonings

Steps:

• Sauté spinach and garlic in butter until the spinach leaves wilt
• Transfer to a colander
• Press firmly until all the water runs out. (this might take about 10 minutes, but worth it! — unless you want your dish to be soggy)
• Spoon into a 10 oz baking dish

• Mix in the cream cheese
• Season well

• Sprinkle mozzarella over the top
• Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.
• Served with crackers, corn chips, pita chips, or toast
• Enjoy!

If you want to make your own homemade crackers to go with this dip recipe. You might want to check out this Homemade Wheat Crackers recipe. Or for something gluten free, try these Homemade Rice Crackers. There is also a big list of Homemade Cracker Recipes here. If you just want a super easy cracker recipe, go for these Homemade Saltine Crackers.

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Cream Cheese Spinach Dip

Ingredients

• 6 oz baby spinach leaves
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 3 oz cream cheese slightly softened
• 1 clove garlic minced
• 1/2 cup grated mozzarella
• salt & pepper & your favorite seasonings

Instructions

1. Sauté spinach and garlic in butter until the spinach leaves wilt
2. Transfer to a colander
3. Press firmly until all the water runs out
4. Spoon into a 10 oz baking dish
5. Mix in the cream cheese
6. Season well with salt and pepper or your choice of seasonings
7. Sprinkle mozzarella over the top
8. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes
9. Served with crackers, corn chips, pita chips, or toast
10. Enjoy!

Looking for a different dip to make? Try Cream Cheese Taco Dip! Or 7 Layer Taco Dip is always a good one too! Dips always seem to be a hit family get-togethers and potlucks.

Do you make Cream Cheese Spinach Dip? What is your favorite warm dip to make?

This Cream Cheese Spinach Dip recipe was originally posted on Little House Living in June 2013. It has been updated as of June 2019.