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Jalapeño dip is creamy and tangy with a spicy kick. It’s the perfect dip for chips, crackers, or veggies and is light on calories too!
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I can’t get enough of this copycat jalapeño dip recipe! You can dip everything from veggies to naan bread, to chips and crackers. It’s a light, healthy, flavorful dip that you can make yourself in just minutes.
I first came upon this jalapeño dip at Costco and would make Costco runs just for another carton. So imagine my disappointment when Costco suddenly stopped carrying it! I decided to create my own and it tastes just like the original, especially when you refrigerate it overnight. So yummy!
Jalapeño Dip with Real Ingredients
Skotidakis has real ingredients and real flavor! It made my job of creating a copycat recipe very easy. It makes me like their products even more because of the use of real ingredients. These ingredients are all natural and fresh ingredients that make this good for you!
- Plain Greek yogurt – Greek yogurt is known to be a thicker yogurt that is healthy and has loads of flavor. Get the plain flavor of yogurt for this recipe.
- Red and green bell peppers – Cut the bell peppers into slices. These will be roasted to give the peppers a little more flavor.
- Onion – Quarter an onion and place on the baking sheet to be roasted with the peppers and garlic. You can use white, yellow, or red onion.
- Garlic – Use a whole garlic bulb and cut the top off of it to be baked. The cloves will cook inside.
- Roasted tomatoes – Buy these in the Mexican aisle in the canned section. Drain these really well before using them. Since they are already roasted you do not need to roast them unless you would like to.
- Jalapeños – Remove the seeds and the top of the jalapeño. Slice in half lengthwise and place on the baking sheet. Roasting jalapeños will help alleviate the heat but also give them a beautiful taste.
- Canola oil – Drizzle the canola oil over top the vegetables. Use a cruet if you have one at home. If not, pour the oil into a small bowl or cup and use a teaspoon to carefully drizzle over the vegetables.
- Paprika – This has a mild, sweet to the extra spicy range.
Instructions for Making Jalapeno Dip
Coming up with this recipe was quite simple. I used the same ingredients that are on the Skotidakis label, roasted them, blended them up, and mixed them with non-fat Greek yogurt. It was simple to make and came together perfectly!
- Roast vegetables – Cut bell peppers, onion, and jalapeños into large slices and place them on a baking sheet.
- Prepare garlic – Cut off the top of the garlic bulb and place them cut-side up on the baking sheet with the other veggies.
- Roast – Drizzle olive oil over all the vegetables and garlic. Roast at 400 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Add in – Scoop out the roasted garlic from the bulb and place it in a blender or food processor with the other roasted vegetables.
- Blend – Add roasted tomatoes, paprika, canola oil, and salt to the blender and blend until smooth.
- Fold together – Combine the mixture with plain Greek yogurt and add more salt if needed.
What to Dip with Jalapeño Dip
This jalapeño dip is perfect for dipping and spreading. Slice your bread, cut your veggies, and pour out the chips and crackers for the best dip. It is gluten-free, keto-approved, low-carb, and healthy all around!
- Vegetables – Dip all your favorite vegetables in this Greek yogurt dip. Try it with a cucumber, bell peppers, sliced carrots, or celery.
- Crackers – Use Triscuits or wheat crackers for a great combination!
- Bread – Naan or pita bread is always a thicker bread. Any baguette or French bread will be great!
- Chips – A hard, thick chip is best because this dip is thicker and does have a consistency that will weigh down a chip.
This is More Than a Jalapeño Dip!
Use this dip for even more than just an appetizer! Try these different ways to make this sauce go a long way. Marinating, adding to pasta and seafood, or using it as a salad dressing or dip for french fries and even one follower said chicken wings!
- Protein – Try using this jalapeño dip as a marinade! We use it for chicken, then dip the yogurt-covered chicken in breadcrumbs at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. It’s delicious!
- Pasta – Add a scoop or two of the dip to your favorite Alfredo sauce and spoon it over the noodles. It adds a gorgeous color and spicy flavor.
- Seafood – Baste shrimp over a grill and then serve them alongside veggies and rice. So many possibilities!
- Dressing – Use this as a light and tasty salad dressing for your favorite greens.
“Amazing. Put extra into quart-size baggies, pushed out air, and it kept for two weeks. Thank you!!!”
-Monika
Frequently Asked Questions
To help make Greek yogurt taste a little better or sweeter you can choose to add a spoonful of heavy cream, half and half for a creamy texture. Add vanilla, almond, or lemon juice to help with a variety of flavors. A spoonful of sugar, honey, or maple syrup to sweeten the yogurt.
Greek yogurt and sour cream have been known to be interchangeable in dips. Greek yogurt has a thick consistency similar to sour cream just with different flavors. Health-wise, Greek yogurt is lower in calories and fat and higher in protein compared to a full-fat sour cream carton.
Fresh herbs are always a great way to start when adding flavor! Parsley, chives, basil, cilantro, thyme, and kosher salt. Garlic powder and onion powder are also more ways to add seasoning.
Storing Jalapeño Dip
This jalapeño dip is easy to store and lasts in the refrigerator for five to six days. Place the copycat dip in an airtight container and use it whenever you need a healthy snack or appetizer to dip in. I do not recommend freezing this dip. Once thawed, the flavor will be there but the consistency is going to be different and not appealing.
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How to Make Jalapeño Dip
Jalapeño Dip
Equipment
- Food Processor
Ingredients
- ½ red bell pepper
- ½ green bell pepper
- 1 onion
- 3 jalapenos optional: remove seeds if you want it mild
- 1 bulb garlic about 7 to 8 cloves
- olive oil about ¼ cup
- 14 ounces roasted tomatoes 1 can, drained VERY well
- 1 Tablespoon paprika
- 2 Tablespoons canola oil
- salt to taste
- 48 ounces Plain Greek Yogurt 3 pounds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut bell peppers, onion, and jalapeños into large slices and place them on a baking sheet. Cut off the top of the garlic bulb and place them cut-side up on the baking sheet with the other veggies.
- Drizzle olive oil over all the vegetables and garlic and roast at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
- Scoop out the roasted garlic from the bulb (it will be hot) and place in a blender or food processor with the other roasted vegetables. Add roasted tomatoes, paprika, canola oil, and salt to the blender and blend until smooth.
- Combine the mixture with plain Greek yogurt (don't whip it together, just slowly fold it in) and add more salt if needed (we start with a few teaspoons and then add more to taste). For best results refrigerate in an airtight container overnight.
My whole family loves the dip we used to buy at Costco and every friend who tasted it loved it too. I put many notes in the suggestion box with no result. If you love it please do the same. I will definitely try the recipe and am excited to have an alternative.
Yes! We have put it in the suggestion box many times too! Come on, Costco, bring it baaccckk!
I love this yogurt dip and I called Costco at their main office.I was told that the product didn’t sell as well as they hoped. I worked at Costco. I wish they had sampled it.I know it would have sold well then.I tell people that I don’t like yogurt or jalapeños but I loved that dip! A woman I me.t told me that she had her sister send it to her from California.
You can get it in California?? I need to get my hands on some!
Yes!!! Finally, we can enjoy our beloved jalepeño yogurt dip! I’ve been checking Costco shelves for years. This was as close to a perfect match as possible. Delicious!
I roasted my drained tomatoes with the vegetables to make sure they were dry enough. The texture was perfectly thick, just like our favorite Costco treat.
Thank you for sharing this recipe!
Great idea to roast the tomatoes! Definitely will try that next time!
I’m glad I’m not the only person that has looked for this dip. My husband thinks I’m crazy, since I have called Costco and Skoridakis to ask about bringing it back. I missed when they brought it back in 2017. Hoping for a 2018 return. I’m the mean time, I will try this recipe.
I hear ya! I wish they would just bring it back. I keep checking each time I go to Costco to see if maybe, just MAYBE it is back on the shelves. Maybe one of these times I will be pleasantly surprised!
Thanks for posting this, I too miss this dip a ton:( I used to put it on everything!! I’ll give this substitute a try, hoping I can copycat it well.
I made this last night and it’s very good and easy to make. My question is the consistency…. I used the Kirkland Greek yogurt and the final result isn’t as thick as the store bought… thoughts?
It definitely helps if you drain the Greek Yogurt. Also you have to drain the roasted tomatoes REALLY well. If you want to make it extra thick, you can even place the roasted tomatoes on a baking sheet and bake them to get some of that moisture out. After you refrigerate it overnight, it will thicken up too. Let me know if this helps!
We had it at our Greenwood Costco in Indiana but when I went back this August it was gone. Customer service told me they will bring things back if enough requests are put in the comment box at the store.
Thanks for sharing this. I love this dip and check for it every time I go to Costco. They actually brought it back a couple months ago and I stocked up on it … bought as much as I could eat before it expired. Of course, it was gone a few weeks later. So sad. I don’t know why they don’t just keep it on the shelves. It’s SO GOOD! I keep asking for it in the Costco suggestion box, hoping they bring it back again.
Right?? I heard from some that it came back for a while and then it was gone again. We will add to the suggestion box as well! We love that stuff!
Our Costco brought this dip back in May and now in July it is gone again. We love it and use it as a dip, sandwich spread etc. I hate when the have a big seller and then they pull it.
I did make this tonight and it came out the same color as the store bought, maybe a little runnier (I used Fage 0% fat plain Greek yogurt).At first it did not taste as good as the Costco bought dip. Then, I looked at the Skotidakis website and the nutritional information for the dip and the difference I saw with this recipe is the salt content. The recipe says salt “to taste” which usually means not a whole lot. But per the nutritional information for the jalapeno dip on Skotidakis website, there is 150 mg of sodium for each 30 g serving, which is around 2 T. or about 1/4 cup of the dip. Doing the math all the way through and accounting for the sodium that is already present in plain yogurt, that equates to about 10 + teaspoons of salt for this recipe. That is quite a bit of salt. But, I have to say, when I added less than one teaspoon at first, it did not taste like the Costco dip but when I got up to 5 or 6 teaspoons, it started to really taste like it. So I would say if you didn’t add too much salt and you are disappointed in the taste, try adding some more salt.. It is really easy to make and it makes a lot. Next time I might halve the recipe and see how it turns out.
Thank you! We will have to try it with more salt and adjust the recipe accordingly, thank you for the comment!
This didn’t turn out for me!! It’s a little runny – not too bad – but the flavor isn’t right. It tastes too much like bell pepper and isn’t spicy at all even though I added an extra jalapeño. =( Do you have any suggestions about how I might fix it? The other flavors just aren’t coming through at all.
Hmmm I’m not sure– what kind of Greek yogurt did you use I have been using the Costco brand and it is nice and thick. Maybe you could drain the juices from the veggies as well as the yogurt?
Going to make this for my BF who is on a special diet where we have to make his own yogurt. I know he’s craving it.
As a side note, I’ve been doing the whole “why do you do this to me, Costco??” when it disappeared. But, BF went to Costco today, and it was back! (He bought me two containers, lol).
It’s BACK??? Woo hoo! I will have to check when I go tomorrow! Thanks for the heads up!
Omg. We been searching for this dip every time we go to Costco. I’m pregnant and I been craving it so bad! Momma is happy now!
BE sure to come back and let us know what you think! 😀
Thank you, thank you for posting this recipe! I love this dip as well and am so disappointed that both Costco and Sam’s have stopped carrying it (Why, oh why do they get us hooked on something and then stop carrying it?).
Good question! It has happened to me with several of there items. Some are seasonal and come back, others I have never seen again. It is disappointing!
I’m so glad to meet others who mourned the loss of this dip! Thanks for the recipe, I look forward to making it soon 🙂
Made this tonight. It didn’t taste like the Costco dip to me. I’m letting it chill now to see if it tastes like it in the AM. Thank you for posting. Gosh I miss that dip so much!
It definitely tastes better after sitting overnight to let the flavors combine. What kind of Greek yogurt are you using?
Jen
What’s your thoughts after letting it sit overnight? I love that dip as well, I used to get it from Sam’s club and upset that I haven’t seen it there in a while.
Can you freeze it?
I don’t think I would freeze this… I don’t think it would freeze well. Sorry!
I tried freezing it, the taste remains but the consistency is weird once dethawing.
Where did you get the jar of roasted tomatoes? I’m having trouble finding them in Toronto.
In my local grocery stores, they are in the same aisle with the canned vegetables! Sometimes you can find them by the spaghetti sauce. Hope you can find them!
Thank you SOOOO much I was ADDICTED to this dip at Costco and sad when it didnt return. What’s the best brand of yogurt to use in your opinion?
I like the Fage, Chobani, and Oikos brands because they are so smooth, but any brand will do. Thanks for asking!
Thank you so much. I miss this dip so much right now. I keep going to Costco and praying and it’s never there. I contacted the company and Costco in hopes of a return. Now I can try and make it myself!
We felt the same way! I hope you like the recipe.
Thank you so much for doing all the hard work for us!!! I love your ideas on how to use it other ways, and remind myself of them when I make this. I am really the only 1 in my familythat likes the it. But friends are hahahaaapy to get a care package with it.
Here’s an idea for… Slathered in a fold over omelet. YUUUMM!! Oh and drain drain drain the yogurt and add double veggies. Ya know it is mostly eating it. Lol!! Amy
Can you please tell me how my ounces the can of roasted tomatoes needs to be? Thanks!
The one I used was 14.5 oz. , hope this helps!
Sounds delicious. What size can of roasted tomatoes? Thanks for the recipe.
it is 14-15 oz… I will add it to the recipe, thanks for the heads up!
My husband was so happy I found this! We were addicted to this stuff and made special Costco runs just for it, so sad they removed it. I just made it and it’s in the fridge…can’t wait to try it! Thank you!
This sounds interesting. Didn’t get to try it when it was available at
Costco. What size can of roasted tomatoes do you use? Can’t wait to try
your recipe. Thanks.
It is 14.5 oz. but you could use a 15 oz. one