Omg. The Superbowl is almost here. One of the biggest days of the year is just around the corner. And you know what I’ll be doing during the game? Most likely blogging. Maybe watching a little Jersey Shore. And hopefully consuming delicious food from my Sunday Funday cooking extravaganza. No, I will not be watching the Super Bowl. No, I will not be cooking Super Bowl food to bring to someone’s house to watch the big game. And no, I will not be rooting for any team. Because it’s dumb. And boring. Watching sports is like watching paint dry. It’s pointless. Ok, now that I pissed all of you sports fans off, I’ll apologize and change the subject. And do not comment that CrossFit is a sport. I consider it my workout. And the guys I watch workout are all half naked while working out, count me in as a participant in that “sport”.
I just drank a “dirty chai” and my stomach might explode from this sugar bomb. Abort. Never doin’ that sh*t again.
But back to the super bowl. People really only like special days like this because of the food that is involved. That’s why you just googled ‘super bowl food’ or ‘paleo super bowl food’ and you mouth started salivating. Pavlov style. Well since I’ve never really been to a Super Bowl party, I had to think of things I would want to snack on. But that’s too simple to me. All I really want to snack on is nuts (insert dumb jokes here. original.) shredded meat, and anything involving sweet potatoes. So I had to think a little bit more to satisfy all of you sports snacking freaks out there. That wasn’t an insult. If you like snacking, I like you. Sports or not.
I used this dip for everything. Sweet potato chips. Shredded chicken. Ham, rolled up in lil fruit roll ups-minus the fruit. Celery. Really anything, honestly. It’s pretty stupid delicious. And simple. I also ate it by the spoonful. Stop judging me.
Superbowl Snacks: Roasted Red Pepper Dip
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 4+ 1x
Ingredients
- 1 (12-14 ounce) jar of roasted red pepper
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 1–2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- salt, to taste
Instructions
- Pull out your handy dandy food processor.
- Add roasted red peppers and garlic clove. Turn on to puree.
- Then add your walnuts and turn food processor back on to make a paste.
- Add olive oil, onion powder, and salt. Puree all until you get the consistency you like.
- Serve or chill first before serving.
Notes
If you can find a jar of roasted red peppers WITH garlic cloves included, even better! Grab it! Save yourself garlic fingers.
I’m not a ‘football guy’ but had to watch the big game just to retain my man card. Thankfully I could cook during the game so I made the sweet potato chips and this dip. What a great combination! Thanks Juli! (you can tell how much I don’t care about football… It’s the 4th quarter and I’m posting on here)
Lol love it Aaron. Glad you liked it!!
Just wanted to report back and let you know that the red pepper dip and the sweet potato chips were a hit at the Superbowl party I went to. I only took half of the chips I made because they were too amazingly good to share all of them! Crack like really.
That’s awesome Alicia. I love sweet potato crack.
I made this for Superbowl and the only problem was there wasn’t enough! I’ll be making this again next time I need a chip/dip fix, thanks!
Glad it turned out delish Amers!
Wow!!!! I absolutely love this dip. I can’t believe there isn’t cream or cheese in it. Thank you so much!
I know huh?! Glad you liked it Allie 🙂
I’m allergic to nuts, minus almonds for some odd reason. any suggestions on what I could replace the walnuts with? would almonds taste ok? thanks!!
I bet almonds would taste great still!
I don’t have a food processor, is there another way to get it like this? Giving up snacking on hummus and other dips was hard, but this seems like a great alternative.
It’s going to be super tough without it. Do you have a blender?
Yes I do, thats what I was thinking I might use. If I wanted to buy a pretty good food processor what should I be looking at?
I have a cuisinart 9 cup food processor and it’s perfect!! it’s a bit expensive but seriously worth every penny. if you’re not ready to spend all the money on a kitchen appliance, i see them at thrift stores (cheaper ones usually) all the time and they are still great!
Absolutely delicious!! I’ve made it twice now with walnuts and almonds. I added some hot sauce to one batch and flax meal to another to thicken it up! Both were super yummy! I cut up some fresh veggies for dipping and practically ate it in one sitting! Oops! Thanks do much for the reciepe! I love your blog- you’re hesterical!
Hysterical! **
Just made this with the chips! The best ever! Used our Vitamix.
YUM-O!! This dip is SO easy and SO tasty! I love to eat it with plantain chips =)