Yield: About 1 cup

Ingredients

  • 1 (8 oz./200 g) pkg. cream cheese
  • 1/2 C. (100 g)) sour cream
  • 1/2 C. (125 ml) mayonnaise
  • 10 dashes Tabasco sauce or Red Hot sauce
  • 1/2 tsp. salt (some sun-dried tomatoes are very salty; so add according to taste)
  • 1/4 C. sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained and chopped (approximately 8 tomatoes)

 

Instructions

Gently cream together the cream cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, Tabasco or Red Hot and salt. Add the finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes Serve at room temperature.

1. Basil Bites: use either the above dip recipe, or cream together 4 oz./100 g of cream cheese with about 6 finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes. Add a little mayonnaise or sour cream to soften the mixture. Place a small amount of the mixture on a large basil leaf and roll it up.

2. Cherry Tomato Bites: use either the above dip recipe, or cream together 4 oz./100 g of cream cheese with about 6 finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes. Add a little mayonnaise or sour cream to soften the mixture. Place mixture in a small plastic bag and press it into a corner; snip off the corner of the bag and squeeze the dip into cherry tomatoes cut into quarters, being careful to not cut all the way through the tomato.

3. For a quick and easy variation, spread softened cream cheese on crackers and top with several slivers of oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, drained.

 

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