I have very fond childhood memories of stirring a packet of onion dip mix into a container of sour cream. A bag of potato chips and a can of Coke completed the picture. Nowadays that seems like an unnecessary expense. But, it makes a great tailgate snack, especially when supplemented with some veggie dippers. Recently I set out to make my own onion dip from scratch. You’ll be amazed at how easy it was! This new way definitely works for me.
Sour Cream Onion Dip
1 cup sour cream
1 Tablespoon onion flakes
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon Better Than Bouillion beef base (you could probably use dry beef bouillion, crumbled fine)
In a small bowl, combine all ingredients. Chill for one hour.
Have you got a special onion dip memory?
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This sounds wonderful! Onion dip, a bag of Ruffles & a glass of cold sweet tea brings back my childhood. My sister & I would spend hours enjoying a good game of rummy while enjoying our chips & dip. I’m going to have to try this!
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sounds good and without the MSG.
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Kelly Reply:
April 14th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
@maggie, The beef base is full of MSG, disguised as hydrolyze soy protein and Autolyzed Yeast Extract.
Sigh. I want a good homemade onion dip too, may just make it w/o the beef base, or figure out how to make it with homemade beef stock.
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Jessica Reply:
April 14th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
@Kelly, I usually buy the organic one. I assume it doesn’t have that, but I could be wrong?
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aha!!! that’s what I was missing! I had always done it with the onion soup mix, but when i tried to make it from scratch, I tried to use dehydrated onion and garlic powder. it seemed to be missing something, but I couldn’t figure out what…
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I never really cared for pretzels because they were too dry. Then I was hanging with some friends in college and they had onion soup mix dip and the small pretzel sticks….LOVED them. My inlaws eat cornchips with the onion soup dip, I can’t wait to flip out this dip at our next gathering.
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This was always our standard dip. Our only dip, really. I’ve thought about making it before, but don’t like the ingredients in most things like that. Thanks for this one–printing it now.
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I’ve been thinking I could make onion dip with dried onion and sour cream. Have you tried it without the beef base? I love onion dip and really miss it, but we don’t eat stuff we can’t pronounce anymore, so it’s hard to find!
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Jessica Reply:
April 14th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
@Kelly, I am sure you could leave out the base. Maybe add some more spices like paprika and thyme to up the flavor?
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