Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Dip with Feta and Goat Cheese
Roasted Tomato and Red Pepper Dip is timeless and can be served in any season.
Having a dip on hand makes having meals for one, or simple snacks, easy! Savory dips can also support balanced blood sugar and satiety.
I love having the flavours fo late summer, like tomatoes and red peppers, roasted and blended into two types of cheeses. Herbs such as fresh oregano, basil, or rosemary heighten those flavours.
To me, roasted tomatoes preserve the summer garden season. I’ve frozen unripe tomatoes for salsa making in the winter. I also LOVE to roast red peppers, and freeze them as well for spreading on breads, crackers, making dips like this one, and fusing on food boards.
A roasted red pepper dip with cherry tomato can also go into many different salad bowls. If you want a simple salad formula, visit this post.
Make the roasted red pepper and cherry tomato dip
Ingredients:
2 cups roasted tomatoes
3 peeled garlic cloves
1 tsp of olive oil, for drizzling
1/2 cup roasted red peppers
1 cup feta cheese
1 tbsp olive oil (this recipe used Spicy Calabrian Olive Oil from The Olive Oil Co. Brantford Ontario.
70 g (about a 1/4 cup) of goat cheese
How To:
Preheat oven to 375F. Put tomatoes and garlic on a cookie sheet, drizzle with 1 tsp olive oil. Bake until wrinkled and popped.
Remove to cool.
Add tomatoes, garlic, red peppers, feta, goat cheese to food processor, along with another tbsp olive oil, if using flavoured oil.
Processed until combined.
This dip works great with charcuterie and food boards, AND as a sauce for pasta!
Charcuterie boards, or food platters, are so easy and pretty to set out when planning get togethers in the summer, or for Christmas celebrations.
With Holiday Season (and Eating Season) rapidly approaching, I decided to roast those cherry tomatoes with red peppers, garlic and blend in 2 kinds of cheese: goat and feta. I finished it off with a splash of herbed olive oil from the Olive Oil Company in Brantford Ontario.
If you don’t have an Olive Oil Company near you, season with fresh herbs!
This is more than a dip.
It can play a role as a veggie dip, and as a delicious a pasta sauce. I even see a pizza, spread with this sauce/dip sprinkled with fresh herbs.
This recipe incorporates some much needed vegetables in a season of cheese balls and cocktails!
Some or our menopause digestive systems need a gentle boost of cooked fiber to keep us from being constipated, from all that cheese.
While this recipe does contain two cheeses, the added roasted peppers and tomatoes give it a lighter lift.
Are you in?
Play with the recipe. Food should be fun!
Lighten up on the cheese, or try sour cream. Replace the cheese with a dairy free alternative, or omit the peppers and add more tomatoes. There’s always room for fresh garlic, too!
Yes, please.
