Baked Seafood Dip
Baked seafood dip is a delicious twist on the traditional spinach dip recipe, loaded with juicy chunks of crab and shrimp. This creamy seafood dip includes a mixture of fresh spinach and cheese, baked until golden brown and bubbly. Serve it as a tasty party appetizer for all your gatherings, year-round.
Equipment
- Medium Sized Bowl
- Cheese Grater
- Oven ready baking dish
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups Chopped Spinach
- ½ lb Medium Sized Raw Shrimp peeled and deveined
- 8 oz Crab
- ¼ cup Cream Cheese softened
- ¼ cup Sour Cream
- 1 tablespoon Mayo
- 1 tablespoon Green Onion
- ½ tsp Old Bay Seasoning
- ¼ tsp Lemon Pepper Seasoning
- ½ cup Mozzarella Cheese
- 1 cup Muenster Cheese split into ½ for topping
- ¼ tssp Pepper
- ⅓ cup Onion small diced
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Paste minced garlic
- 1 tsp Cooking Oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- In a medium to large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except shrimp, crab, onion and garlic.
- Mix thoroughly until well combined, adjust seasonings for flavor and set aside.
- In a small pan, add oil and saute onion and garlic until translucent and soft.
- Add shrimp and cook for one minute until shrimp begin to turn pink.
- Remove shrimp, onion and garlic mixture from heat. (The shrimp will not be cooked through but will fully cook in oven.)
- Combine the shrimp mixture with the crab, and creamed spinach mixture.
- Transfer seafood dip to an oven safe dish and top with additional muenster cheese.
- Bake for 20 minutes until shrimp is cooked through.
- Turn oven to broil and brown until cheese becomes brown and bubbly-about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Enjoy!