I've been experimenting with cashew sour cream since Christmas. It started with a few holiday batches of french onion dip. This was trouble with a capital T and as you know T rhymes with P and the french onion dip was best enjoyed with Potato chips. In the new year, I experimented with milkless ranch dressing but none of the recipes I tried wowed me or met with Alex's approval. I gave up for awhile but then picked up the soaked cashews again in honor of this month's Spice Rack Challenge, dill. Here is dill in a tasty dip made with cashew "sour cream".
*Note the Easter Egg radishes in the top photo, they are from my 9 Bean Rows CSA box from this week.
Lemon-Dilly Cashew "Sour Cream" Dip
Makes about 2 cups
1/2 cup raw cashews + water for soaking
2/3 cup cold water
juice from 1 lemon
2 teaspoons dried dill weed
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon granulated onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
-Cover your cashews in water and soak on the counter for a few hours, then change the water and soak in the refrigerator overnight.
-Drain the cashews and add to a blender with all the other ingredients.
-Blend until perfectly smooth and creamy. Adjust seasonings to your taste, adding more lemon or salt and pepper as desired.
-Serve with fresh vegetables or crackers. Also works well as a salad dressing, thin as needed.
Variation:
Add some grated and drained cucumber along with a small clove of garlic and a little olive oil for a tzatziki style sauce. This cucumber version is very good on salmon burgers.
And now for the obligatory kid pictures..
Penny being cute talking to her giraffe
Both kids being cute
Alex being a lunatic
I am SO looking forward to next week's Easter vacation!
6 comments:
Looks delicious- and that's an awesome picture of lunatic, Alex! haha!
Wow, this sounds great. I used to make a "creamy" tomato soup with cashews, but I never thought you could do something like this. What a great idea, thanks for sharing this recipe. I will be trying for sure.
Cute kids. :^)
Does the cashew 'sour cream' taste like cashews? It sounds intriguing...
VegSpinz: Thanks, the lunatic face is almost all I get anymore.
Nicole @ Arctic Garden Studio: I hope you like it.
Tricia: Thanks, it doesn't really taste much like cashews but if you think about it you taste the beany flavor of them in the background.
i haven't been blogging in so long, i missed that you had a baby. CONGRATS. i had a dear friend named penny, who was the coolest women I ever met, so I love the name.
SORRY, that last post was actually me. I don't know which address i was signed in on.
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