White bean dip with spinach

Everyone loves a dip situation. So here’s one with a twist - a sesame spinach twist to be exact. It’s a creamy white bean dip topped with sesame spinach and a glorious drizzle of olive oil.

I typically hate to make you get out your food processor, but it’s a necessary evil to achieve peak creamy goodness! Plus once you make your own homemade dip you’ll wonder if you can go back to the pre-made dip section of your local TJ’s. The answer is yes, have you had their everything but the bagel yogurt dip?

Tangent aside, we’re heading into that time of year when gatherings are a weekly type of thing, so you might as well have something a little different up your sleeve, right? This one is it.

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White bean dip with spinach

ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
• 5 oz. fresh spinach
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 15.5 oz can cannellini beans
• 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt
• 4-6 fresh basil leaves
• 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped

instructions:

1. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large pan. Add the sesame seeds, cooking until fragrant being careful not to let them get dark in color. Add the spinach and sesame oil, cooking until the spinach wilts. Set this aside.
2. Drain and rinse the cannellini beans. Add them to a food processor with the yogurt, basil, garlic, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and pinches of salt and cracked black pepper. Blitz everything together until its super smooth.
3. Scoop the dip into a bowl, drizzle olive oil on top, and then spoon the spinach into the center of the dip. If you want some heat sprinkle everything with some smoked paprika and serve with crackers.

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